But Mr. Brando was always as much a romantic as he was a brute: there was no kind of moment in which he was more magical than when a plain man was suddenly pierced by a fine thought.
Fine thought, but let's be honest: not too many Indians really care.
It is, however, a fine thought experiment, should you have sufficient whiskey and time.
"Fine", thought I. "No big deal.
Fine thoughts and English rugby has been a good place to be this week.
But you start with your own circle, because it is no good thinking fine thoughts about people dying in Africa when you're not looking after the people under your own nose.
Though he doesn't disguise his (now, perhaps, obsolete) antipathy for Arafat, Silva adorns his other characters — the true believer, the spymaster, the lover — with enough fine thoughts to make them sympathetic.
She draws on the responses of his first enthusiastic readers, "who praised his Stoic wisdom and his skill in collecting fine thoughts from the ancients", and also on Descartes, Pascal, the 17th-century libertines, Enlightenment philosophers, the Romantics, 19th-century moralists, Nietzsche, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Stefan Zweig, and others.
Our friend had told us about Commander Byrd, who had had some fine thoughts alone in a hut in the antarctic-good, solid reflections about the nature of tranquility and a man's relation to his God, nothing banal or trivial, although the temperature was often 80 degrees below zero.
"But for all the fine thoughts of [Premier League chief executive] Peter Scudamore, [Arsenal vice-chairman] David Dein and [Man Utd chief executive] David Gill, they are never, ever going to temper the competitive, oft-aggressive edge that makes Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger such lions of the managerial jungle.
I experience finer and finer thoughts until even the finest thought impulse is transcended and my awareness opens to the state of transcendence--pure silence--Being.
