Dr. Boorstin's curiosity, mental agility and inclination not to suffer fools led some associates to call him arrogant and elitist.
This grim phenomenon, human rights lawyer Anthony N. Morgan argues, is in part a result of negative stereotypes associated with the onset of mental distress with inclinations toward violence.
Whatever the source, you will find common characteristics such as height, weight, or less concrete things like mental characteristics, social inclinations, initiative, how fixed it is and changeability.
If you have the inclination and mental discipline to work out a pattern first, draw it on the floor and then fit the stone to it.
First, certain researchers with a strong reductionist inclination argue that mental disorders are ultimately brain disorders; mental disorders are best explored through neuroscience.
Mental instability and criminal inclinations notwithstanding, what do such messages say about -- and how do they influence -- our culture, our core values, our relationships with each other, even among those who may have been given a so-called clean bill of health?
Clooney's experiences with mental breakdown also heightened her inclination to make more time for charity work - "wearing white gloves and a smile" as she put it.
He lamented the rise of megabookstores and what he saw as the degeneration of education, which he thought prevented young people with a natural inclination from acquiring the "mental apparatus" to pursue bookselling.
The false distinction between "psychological" and "physical" bases of mental illness encourages the public's inclination to "blame the victim" and the insurance industry's resistance to providing adequate coverage for treatment.
For example the evolutionary biologist George Williams 'had no inclination to deny the mental realm', yet was 'inclined to delete it from biological explanation, because it is an entirely private phenomenon, and biology must deal with the publicly demonstrable' (Williams 1992, p. 4).
