He pauses for a moment to marshal his thoughts.
And those children, who can't marshal their thoughts coherently, are spending valuable time learning to fill in the correct boxes with the correct pencils.
At others, the reader has the sense that for all her reading, their author remains uncertain, floundering, unable wholly to marshal her thoughts.
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.
It also helps you to marshal your thoughts before you speak.
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.
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.
This despite the fact that the political thought of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was marshalled around the Protestant theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel movement.
Steven Sloane authoritatively marshalled the orchestra.
