Sentence examples for formulate a thought from inspiring English sources
Do they actually take the time to care about what they say, to process what's actually happening, to formulate a thought or opinion and share it, out loud?
I was recently speaking with a friend who explained that every result in life begins with a question: that is, we ask a question (what do I want to eat?), formulate a thought to answer said question (I want to eat healthily), take an action based on that thought (I'm going to buy a salad), and that action, when repeated enough times, turns into a result (I'm healthy).
At some point between formulating a thought and writing it down falls a nanosecond when the thought becomes a sentence that would, in all likelihood, have a different shape if we were to speak it.
Before I could formulate a real thought about this, the first figure ran up to me and raised his hand to strike me, but ended up landing the blow as a tickle.
As I toured through the Irish prison, I began to formulate a simple thought: In all common law countries -- countries that are legally guided by judges -- except the U.S., going to prison is the punishment.
I argue along the same lines, in the third chapter of my book: The model children churned out by endless hours of isolated piano practice and math textbook study, trained not to question authority and ideally never to formulate an unapproved thought, are ill-prepared for many arenas beyond the walls of their homes or the halls of their high schools.
I finally overcame that, and now I can barely formulate a cohesive written thought in French.
As a high-school student, Albert Einstein formulated a clever thought experiment and reasoned to a contradiction.
[1]) One of the architects of utilitarian ethics, and a forerunner of Singer's logic, was William Godwin (1756-1836), who formulated a famous thought experiment.
