Sentence examples for mind is determined from inspiring English sources

The narrative moves flawlessly between the past, where Mary's mind is determined to wander as old age unravels her, and the present – where Katie is coaxing the truth out of the grandmother her mum refuses to love.

This means that the experience of the sense data presented to one's mind is determined by one's previous actions and is beyond of one's immediate control.

"In the Mind there is no absolute, or free, will, but the Mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so to infinity" (IIp48).

"Our idea … of necessity and causation arises entirely from the uniformity, observable in the operations of nature; where similar objects are constantly conjoined together, and the mind is determined by custom to infer the one from the appearance of the other" (ECHU 54 55).

Keep patience, remove laziness from mind, be determined, allocate time.

All are regularly made by Western intellectuals too, even though he claims such minds are determined to maintain the supremacy of the West.

In his impatience to get to matters of the mind, Kureishi is determined to avoid the merely pleasing.

Birmingham's managing director, Karren Brady, described by the tribunal as "a formidable woman who knows her own mind, and is determined to succeed in achieving her objectives", conducted the negotiations for the club, and she explained what happened in very similar terms to those set out by Cushing.

This notion is consistent with the context-regulation theory of mind-wandering which suggests that mind-wandering is determined, in part, by the current context and the extent to which demands on attention are high or low (Smallwood, 2013; Smallwood & Andrews-Hanna, 2013).

"Everyone in this town who claims to know the president's mind says he is determined to finish off the Saddam weapons of mass destruction problem and the regime," said Fritz W. Ermarth, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council under the first President Bush and is now a resident at the Nixon Center.

Cody Belew "Hard to Handle," The Black Crowes/Otis Redding We never thought Cee Lo would be the last man standing, but 27-year-old rodeo performer Cody Belew doesn't mind because he is determined to make it on Team Cee Lo.