Sentence examples for gentleman's mind from inspiring English sources
In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke outlined a new theory of mind, contending that the gentleman's mind was a tabula rasa or "blank slate"; that is, it did not contain any innate ideas.
And now it appears to be a gentleman's prerogative to change his mind.
After Tree, Kazan's 40's work endures as solid material -- two then-groundbreaking features come to mind: 1947's Gentleman's Agreement (which tackled the then-taboo theme of anti-semitism, and 1949's Pinky (which dealt with racism).
"I was just trying to make sure the gentleman's agreement that was made to build the hotel was in everyone's mind".
How could an enterprise that began as a Victorian gentleman's hobby -- the effort to catalog every facet of the savage mind -- remain respectable in a postcolonial world?
Yet Peter, as this courtly old-school gentleman didn't mind being called, was inherently personal in his communications.
Of course, patrons have been known to come to talk to business too, since the unwritten gentlemen's code is that everyone minds his own business.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in our mind' s eye we can still see the tragic pictures from Mozambique, the results of a rare sequence of extremely harsh natural events.
Kent reveals the king's state of mind to the gentleman: "burning shame / Detains him from Cordelia".
Sebastian Barry's The Temporary Gentleman (Faber) has stayed in my mind because it's such a triumph of characterisation.
