lesser mind

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

The presumably lesser mind of the science writer has an even harder row to hoe than that of the scientist.

A lesser mind would have made this into dull stuff indeed; Browne turns it into a premodern Tumblr, an excuse to talk about interesting stuff.

"I recently released this album, [Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets], and I knew right away, in terms of putting music to those poems, that I was the lesser mind in the equation," he said.

Lesser minds would have looked at the unforgiving dimensions and given up on anything beyond a stand-and-sing delivery.

In his youth, Charles was extremely close to Coleridge, whose conversational pyrotechnics often left lesser minds smouldering in their wake.

(I do think I'm a genius, but the stacks of diagnostic manuals would have been a pretty big clue even to lesser minds).

The authors view him as "a prophet" trapped among lesser minds and "a Catholic embodiment of the rebel, an ethos expressed by Albert Camus".

"But in this day and age, even the career of someone as estimable as Stanley can be polluted by the jealousy of lesser minds.

She brushed their fears aside as the hobgoblins of lesser minds, and a year later insouciantly cleared off to Paris for a ceremonial summit, which she could easily have skipped.

He understood the outlook of such writers, drawing on a kind of intellectual empathy to reanimate their ideas for later generations, but he did not build up a thickly textured context of lesser minds or grub around in archives.

Lesser minds may have trouble following the logic, but in the end it comes down to something like this: References to a particular religion are forbidden; general references to God are not.