Fans hold a mind-boggling depth of knowledge about the series.
So much easier to cling to them, refuse to consider they might be due for an update, or at least hold an open mind as younger generations assert the rightness of their point of view.
He nevertheless refused to rule out the possibility that it had ever occurred, maintaining that the correct methodological stance was to hold an open mind on the issue, and that it would be impossible to conclusively state that no society throughout human history has ever culturally sanctioned cannibalism.
He doesn't even look big enough to hold a flute, never mind play the heaviest guitar made by Gibson, the Les Paul.
We can look forward to many more years of "novels" and "memoirs" from people who barely know how to hold a pen, never mind whether i comes before e.
In the 1940s, Louis Thurstone developed a series of tests designed to evaluate specific aspects of visual perceptual processing including the Closure Flexibility Test (CFT), which was designed to measure "the ability to hold a configuration in mind despite distraction".
Promise-keeping is less a moral issue than a question of whether we are neurophysiologically trustworthy because we have exercised the psychic muscles that hold a promise in mind until its fulfillment.
As your body flexes to hold a position, your mind calms and turns to your body.
(Ellison knows something about that, having been criticized for taking his congressional oath holding a Koran never mind that the Koran was from the library of Thomas Jefferson).
Most of them didn't know how to boil water, never mind hold a pair of clippers.
Newton was a finicky, neurotic, off-scale brilliant character who seemed able to hold a problem in his mind, neither sleeping nor eating, "thinking on it continually," he said, until he'd solved it.
