From Shakespeare's Cleopatra to Milton's Satan to everyone's Marie Antoinette, the slo-mo replay of the fall of the spectacularly fallen is a creative puzzle that hooks the writerly mind.
With titles like "Angry," "Bent" and "Leave" (following in the tradition of "Push," the band's huge 1998 hit, and "Smooth," Mr. Thomas's even more successful 1999 partnering with Carlos Santana) these simmering rockers hooked into the mind-clouding energy of emotional defensiveness.
This is a clever, efficiently nasty film that hooks into the mind.
While some problems are baited hooks for the mind, some really should be looked into.
Ultimately for equanimity to be developed further, it is necessary to let go of these feelings and thoughts as they are all baited hooks for the mind.
It's the commercialisation of femininity, and the marketing ploys designed to hook vulnerable minds into the belief that only a typical girl will wind up with a typical boy.
As she looked around, trying to hook her mind onto something, it gave her a kind of soft shock, a mixture of compassion and wonder, to notice that one of the passengers — a girl with dark hair and grubby red toenails — was weeping on the shoulder of an older woman.
As she looked around, trying to hook her mind onto something, it gave her a kind of soft shock, a mixture of compassion and wonder, to notice that one of the passengers a girl with dark hair and grubby red toenails was weeping on the shoulder of an older woman.
Not even this theory lets them off the hook altogether, mind: the pugnacious Paul Krugman, fortified by his Nobel prize for economics, has been arguing in the New York Times that Mr Obama's original sin was his failure to enact a stimulus that matched the scale of the crisis he inherited.To put the blame entirely on the economy may seem crudely deterministic.
