Sentence examples for mental vacation from inspiring English sources

Western cultures are more likely to excuse binge drinking as a needed mental vacation.

Fleeting observations, but the reward is great -- a mental vacation, anytime I want it.

Let's kick back and take a mental vacation from our puzzle workout with Bob Marley: Your thoughts?

"You know, this whole prison situation, where you have to act macho and put up these mental barriers, this really allowed like a mental vacation," Mr. Paxton said.

Ben Crane, a four-time winner on the tour, described fly-fishing as a "mental vacation" from the grind of the golf tour.

WITH less than a month to go before graduation, Tisha Gabriel, a senior at Baldwin High School, might have been kicking back, relaxing and taking a mental vacation.

From memories of lost loves to expectations about forthcoming vacations, mental time travel (MTT) makes it possible to revisit the past and pre-experience the future [1] [5].

professor of environmental psychology at Uppsala University in Sweden, a country where five weeks paid time off is a legal requirement for every worker, examined the effects of vacations on mental health.

"We assume that office workers need vacations and mental breaks; it's about time we realized that service workers are just as human.

These are my kids.' " It seemed to Mercedes that the foster mother didn't really want Camron — what kind of mother left a nine-year-old alone in a mental hospital and went on vacation?

What is most important, however, is the absurdity of the implication that highly accomplished people who are not seriously disturbed would choose to vacation in a mental hospital, or that what was done to them in the guise of treatment was thoughtless and often harmful.