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.
"Before her mind was seized by the flame in her heart," translates the line.
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.
The Buddha reluctantly replies that if he is killed in battle while his mind is seized with the intention to kill, he will undergo an unpleasant rebirth.
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.
She would remain a slave for the rest of her life or until she changed her mind and seized another chance.
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.
