Most of today's popular methods of building your vocabulary have an explicitly instrumental mind-set, avowing that if you learn lots of new words, you will get something tangible for your trouble.
The real question is whether he has picked up traits like emotional security, political judgment and an instrumental mind-set from his upbringing and the deeper experiences of life.
They believe fluoride is instrumental in mind control because, they insist, it blocks the "third eye".
The Glare features the dramatic torch singing McAlmont taking various instrumental pieces mind-bending, vigilant Anglo-minimalist composer Nyman has written for various settings over the years and turning them into austere, voluptuous songs based on recent international and domestic news stories.
Originally these models had been designed with the time-scale of classical or instrumental conditioning in mind, which can be seconds between CS and US.
When promoting societal deliberation over new technologies, some advocates may have an instrumental approach in mind, namely to evade problems for innovation from an ignorant public through inducing a well-controlled debate.
Instrumentals bring to mind both New Orleans jazz and the brassy funeral music that features in Mafia-related films as someone's head ends up in the pasta sauce.
SWEDEN: Ja Ja Ja Dödens Dal - Bakom Stjärnor, Bakom Tiden Dödens Dal is a duo with a fingertip feel and fondness for gloomy, instrumental and really rather mind-boggling electronica.
Apparently, mothers should feel proud of themselves for changing diapers and packing little Bobby's lunch, while fathers, on the other hand, are instrumental in "shaping the minds and futures of the next generation of leaders".
Whereas the body has merely an "instrumental" role with respect to the mind, the mind has "dominion" over the body, and a governing role over the passions.
Merv, not above, shall we say, dedicated self-interest, was to my mind probably quietly instrumental in much of this.
