Their problems were not periodic symptoms, like moodiness or panic attacks, but issues rooted in longstanding habits of thought and feeling — in who they were.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s it was widely assumed that the social, cognitive, and technological skills associated with big-game hunting drove the evolution of the human species; in fact the allure of "Man the Hunter" is longstanding in Western thought (Cartmill 1993).
Even in a modern, secular, liberal state that is explicitly committed to individual freedom, women's fundamental liberties can be obscured and mystified by language and action that uphold and impose longstanding restrictive modes of thought and custom that may not always be recognized as religious in origin but that have no other real explanation.
Last weekend, news broke that Supreme Court Justice and longstanding bastion of progressive thought Ruth Bader Ginsberg is set to appear in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, which is somehow actually happening.
His mentor, Dr. Donald Louria, who retired last year as the longstanding chairman of preventive diseases at the New Jersey Medical School, picked up on that thought in a phone interview.
With the Senate poised to approve its health measure before Christmas, and Democrats casting their thoughts forward to negotiations to reconcile differences between the Senate and House bills, the longstanding relationship of the chairmen -- as members of the freshmen Congressional class of 1975, could help smooth the way.
OPEN SEAT A longstanding practice whereby an Esalen facilitator makes himself available for two hours to hear out any thoughts or feelings you might have.
More global patterns of paranoia, longstanding histories of failing to trust others (even family members), and other signs of disorganized thinking/formal thought disorder can be suggestive of delusional thought content.
"I shared my thoughts with him that it will be the first time he would cross the border and, according to longstanding diplomatic procedure, a visit to the capital would be the preference," Mr. Petritsch said on Friday.
