Sentence examples for mental box from inspiring English sources

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For several years, until about 2010, my nights were spent in a mental box.

If I proposed a 70-150 percent tax on sugary sodas, there'd be a big political debate about it, but this kind of thing goes unnoticed because it's filed in people's "obscure trade dispute" mental box rather than their "taxes" mental box.

For "Black" -- a street name is all he offers -- a 20-year-old who works around 129th Street, a criminal record becomes one more plank in the mental box convincing him there is nothing but the streets.

The administration is more interested in logistical questions, such as how long it will take to build enough smart bombs to make an assault on Iraq possible, than in appeasing the more tremulous sort of Europeans, whom Mr Bush increasingly puts in the same mental box as academics and other lily-livered nitpickers.In this section Will tinkering bring the building down?

For he summons up an appalling scene in which everyone — children, adolescents, and "senior citizens"; everyone except the "adults," who are by Gattegno's definition those "in the news, and have little time for viewing,"—will spend their days glued to the tube, sucking up subliminal clues on how to progress to the next develop mental box.

But as one lesson instructor, Spencer Pumpelley, put to us when we were having trouble: If we ever felt it "click" (or if we had an epiphany of any other sort at the wheel), we had to put that in a mental box and remember how it felt.

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The skills (and, I think, even the theory we are so effectively taught at MIT) become real and useful in a designers mental tool box only once that individual has hands-on experience using them.

The first time I heard the name, in a blazer-and-tie restaurant on the Upper East Side, I furiously dug through my mental file box of designer and model names.

So they deserve to be labeled and put in the mental spam box.

These e-mails get marked as read but linger in our mental in-boxes, haunting our minds.

This particular mental and emotional box has some flavors of the "Man Box" a term coined by Tony Porter in his TED talk "A Call To Men".

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