A champion, a chameleon, an extraordinary mind in an extraordinary body.
He can change his mind in an instant if he wishes.
These studies have been carried out with Statistical Energy Analysis SEAA) in mind in an attempt to gain understanding of some of the underlying assumptions of that approach.
They started to squeeze us, in a legal way, though not to my mind in an ethical way.
However, the report fails to grasp the sheer complexity of such "presence of mind" in an endeavour like child protection.
"At the end he had a young man's mind in an old person's body," his friend Johnny Apple noted.
Hounded by his gangland creditors and crazy with fear, Shem loses what's left of his mind in an alcoholic fantasy about murdering his way out of his troubles.
Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, provided a rare account of Assad's state of mind in an interview with Der Spiegel.
He had wanted to do what fiction writers do: imagine his way into someone else's mind in an attempt to understand and illuminate some shard of the world.
The experimental subjects, Langer told me, had "put their mind in an earlier time," and their bodies went along for the ride.
But there's a problem here: while such existential hashing and rehashing is true to the human mind, in an internal monologue it can be pretty dull.
