Sentence examples for historical mind from inspiring English sources

If even the possessor of the greatest and most wide-ranging historical mind I ever expect to encounter could be marked in this way, then which of the rest of us lesser intellectual fry is likely to be wholly different?

Eaton non-corrasable bond on your desk, you are satisfied that you have turned out, in two days, the intellectual and moral equivalent of three months' steady application, a paper that Professor Blague will recognize as the work of a powerful and unexpectedly mature historical mind.

His big head and black brows and easy grin are as vivid in our historical mind's eye as the features of Abraham Lincoln.

Because the historical mind is itself situated in history, there is, however, no end to this circular movement.

Surveyor voice is a particularly useful rhetorical tool for textbook writers to show there is an historical mind at work, but a careful, uncontroversial one that is able to appeal to diverse audiences.

Modern critics continue to debate the significance of Eureka and some doubt its seriousness, in part because of Poe's many incorrect assumptions and his comedic descriptions of well-known historical minds.

Keep your cognitive, historical, conceptual mind operating.

Those plumes always make me think of Waterloo, which took place 70 years earlier, but in the book the old hunter is set on a morbid train of thought that is, if anything, pan-historical: "My mind's eye singled out those who were sealed to slaughter, and there rushed in upon my heart a great sense of the mystery of human life, and an overwhelming sorrow at its futility and sadness".

That is, by explaining a historical actors' mind-set, condition, or claims, authors were able to imply the reason for a consequent action.

But never mind historical fiction.

WHEN monetary policy makers meet again at the end of this month, they should keep these historical lessons in mind.