He pauses for a moment to marshal his thoughts.
At others, the reader has the sense that for all her reading, their author remains uncertain, floundering, unable wholly to marshal her thoughts.
It also helps you to marshal your thoughts before you speak.
In them he marshals the thoughts and stories of small-time crooks, troubled adolescents and low-wage workers with higher aspirations, alternating perspectives in the key of hard luck.
Some people have difficulty in marshalling their thoughts "on the wing" and resort to what might appear to be emotion rather than reason, but may not necessarily be wrong.
Dialogue means not only marshalling one's thoughts on the fly in response to unanticipated challenges, but rapidly translating those thoughts into a concise and effective verbal argument.
Instead, marshal public opinion to your side".
But what he also embodies is a desire to harness the hurt and pain he has experienced, temper it with careful thought, and marshal it through concerted action.
Gober gives pride of place to a suite of strange pencil drawings from 1917, "Conventions for Abstract Thoughts," in which Burchfield marshalled ovals, spirals, curves, and jagged lines to define a lexicon of ordeals of the mind.
Through the lens of their research it seems that nostalgia is a kind of inbuilt neurological defence mechanism, which can be marshalled to protect us against negative thoughts and situations.
Most people deal with overwhelming anger or hurt or humiliation or shame any of the hot, noisome feelings that form in the gut and move slowly up the throat by marshalling their strength and batting those thoughts back down.
