Sentence examples for mind seized from inspiring English sources

Her tone was so aggressive his mind seized up.

And, of all the tangled complications, Alec's mind seized upon the most perplexing.

And although she had given up swimming abruptly in 1979, a casualty of burnout, her mind seized on her unsuccessful swim to Key West.

In a piece celebrating his centennial, in 2002, Roger Angell wrote,> His critical eye, fastidious modesty, and playful turn of mind seized upon the passing foible or domestic vicissitude, but with more delight than irritation.

"A good political leader is one who, with the interests of all in mind, seizes the moment in a spirit of openness and pragmatism," he said.

"Before her mind was seized by the flame in her heart," translates the line.

She would remain a slave for the rest of her life or until she changed her mind and seized another chance.

And yet Mr. Siegfried raises the tantalizing possibility that valuable scientific ideas may lie outside science, awaiting a mathematical mind to seize on them: Alexander Friedmann, the man credited with inferring the expansion of the universe from Einstein's theory, he notes, loved Poe.

As it grows harder to comprehend complex subjects — climate change leaps to mind — they seize upon assertions, however bogus, that corroborate what they wish to believe.

It one thing for Bran to leap into a dire wolf's mind, but seizing control of Hodor at need is questionable even in his world of murderers and political cutthroats.

Skírnir commands for Gerðr's mind to be seized, that she may waste away with pining, and that she be as the thistle at the end of the harvest; crushed.