Sentence examples for mental material from inspiring English sources

Words, Parks declares, are "pure mental material" and in them "mind and body part company".

Because, as the critic, writer and translator Tim Parks puts it, the literary experience depends on "the movement of the mind through a sequence of words", meaning that reading is nearer than any other art form to "pure mental material, as close as one can get to thought itself", when you read the same book as someone else, your thoughts are – even if only temporarily and partially – aligned.

Judgement was extended in terms of types of Normality (to include subtypes of Fortune, Reputation and Behaviour) and Capacity (to include subtypes of Mental, Material and Social Capacity).

The wealth of criteria provided to differentiate the primary processes (Mental, Material and Relational) is not matched in the classification of the subsidiary processes (Verbal, Behavioural, Existential), as they are seen as intermittent categories that encompass the meaning of numerous principal processes (Halliday, 1994:138, Thompson, 1996).

To date, while there has been extensive laboratory investigation of the consequences of suppression of cognitive mental material (e.g. thoughts and memories; Anderson et al., 2004; Dalgleish & Yiend, 2006; Wegner et al., 1987), there has been surprisingly little well controlled laboratory work on the consequences of emotion suppression (Campbell-Sills, Barlow, Brown, & Hofmann, 2006).

If our evidence for the truth of propositions about extra-mental material reality is always restricted to mental content, content immediately before the mind, how can we ever be certain that the extra-mental reality is not other than we represent it as being?

In a world devoid of mental (and material) substances there is nothing to impart mentality (or materiality) to the given features of experience.

In the best works, Mr. Hirst brings the visual and mental, the material and the literary, into perfect balance.

"The most important explanation for the mental and material backlog we Muslims find ourselves in," Ms. Hirsi Ali has said, "should probably be sought in the sexual morality that we were force-fed from birth".

The Sarvastivadins ("realists" who believe that all things, mental and material, exist and also that all dharmas past, present, and future exist) seceded from the Elders about the middle of the 3rd century bce.

The school holds that neither the self nor the elements that make up the mental and material world have any permanent, changeless reality and that they therefore cannot be said to have any real existence.