The playground mentality by itself doesn't go very far.
Once called "a small club with a small mentality" by Manchester United's legendary manager, Alex Ferguson, City no longer is.
"You want to come in with a winning mentality, by the third quarter you knew you weren't going to win".
Of course, travelers don't have uniforms, but they can adopt a uniformlike mentality by wearing onto the airplane the blazer or suit they'll need at their destination.
National heroes like Don Cherry, a Canadian hockey analyst, helped promote and legitimize this mentality by glorifying athletic fighting and violence in a colorful and entertaining way.
Iftikhar (Danny Beiruti) worries because his daughter, back in his home country, has been brainwashed into Muslim martyrdom mentality by teachers at her religious school.
Mr. Koshalek's vision would challenge that mentality by using performing arts, film series and conferences to foster a wide-ranging public debate on cultural values.
The former defense attorney is urging the Texas Legislature to combat a "convict at all costs" mentality by enacting a precise protocol to curb the kind of zealous identification shortcuts taken against Mr. Dupree.
Neutral Switzerland moved away from a fortress mentality by voting earlier this month to join the United Nations, but the narrow margin of victory appears to have hobbled any more such overtures for the near future.
Mr. Fangman, the union chief, said that officers had "been afraid to take enforcement action in black neighborhoods," contending that they faced a "lynch-mob mentality" by local politicians and the news media.
Since then, her explanations have evolved, from saying that he was lagging on filling trooper vacancies and tackling alcohol-abuse problems in rural Alaska to showing an "intolerable pattern of insubordination" and a "rogue mentality" by resisting her authority and spending reforms, sometimes publicly.
