Sentence examples for mind shuts from inspiring English sources

The body revolts; the mind shuts down in horror at itself.

When I see I've made a mistake, my mind shuts down.

At the very instant we meet his protagonist, George Harvey Bone, he has plunged into one of his "dead" moods, a fugue state in which his mind shuts down and he proceeds through the world as an automaton, an experience akin to "a silent film without music".

By Donald Windham The New Yorker, July 13 , 1963P. 25 The writer tells how his psyche unconsciously protects itself by not remembering a nightmare he had in his youth; how his eyes protect him from the world around him by becoming nearsighted; and how his mind shuts out his surroundings by reading.

But when Garber spends a few pages of her chapter on "Henry V" analyzing the many ways in which Shakespeare's characters, especially that rousing leader of the battle-waging "band of brothers," have been stripped of their ambiguity to serve as exemplars of leadership qualities and modern management techniques, the mind shuts down.

But at about 3 p.m., my mind shuts down, refusing to accept further information.

Tom felt his mind shutting down.

She couldn't keep her eyes or her mind shut.

I could make no movement, nor speak a word; in the grip of an overpowering numbness, I let my mind shut down.

I tried to process everything Dr. Kase said, but as the news got progressively worse, I could feel my mind shutting down, refusing to take in any more.

Towards the end of the film, there is an extraordinary sequence of jump-cuts, a Bergmanesque series of close-ups of her face as she rambles and weeps, her moods shifting, her mind shutting down.