Laughter breaks up the serious grip of the mind so that your natural talents shine through.
In "Hereafter," Eastwood — abetted by Peter Morgan's script — takes seriously the commonplace explanation for the enduring grip of religion on mind and society: the need of the living to cope with the fear of death and with the grip that memory of the dead has on the living.
In "Hereafter," Eastwood abetted by Peter Morgan's script takes seriously the commonplace explanation for the enduring grip of religion on mind and society: the need of the living to cope with the fear of death and with the grip that memory of the dead has on the living.
Capitalism, Communism, paganism, Buddhism, all can degenerate into blind belief systems in the grip of the adversarial mind.
Caught in the grip of their own minds, investors fail to recognize the signs of a company on the brink of either rocketing up in price or dropping sharply.
By the end of the novel, I felt that I had got as close as literature could possibly take me to the inhabiting of another person, and, in particular, the inhabiting of a mind in the grip of "war and war" — a mind not without visions of beauty but also one that is utterly lost in its own boiling, incommunicable fictions, its own grotesquely fertile pain ("Heaven is sad").
And where Ms. Parker made you wonder at the seeming serendipity of the brain (how could such a woman, so collegiate, pretty and languorous, be either a genius or a madwoman?), Ms. Leigh makes Catherine a more strident and high-strung personality in the grip of a habitually overactive mind.
It's like walking into a little room of heaven where you can let go of that tight grip of control, speak your mind about your wishes, and have someone else do all of the leg work.
The school is one of 35 "Meister" schools introduced by the previous president, Lee Myung-bak, in an effort to raise the prestige of vocational education and break the grip of universities on the minds of South Korean parents, 93% of whom expect their children to go to college.
According to the release, the series is "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted".
