But reading can be one of the great joys of your life, enriching your mind, widening your viewpoint, and sharpening your appetite for life, and expanding your soul.
B4 Inside a Terrorist's Mind WIDENING THE NET -- In the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, German intelligence intercepted a phone conversation between jubilant followers of Osama bin Laden that referred to "the 30 people traveling for the operation".
It is also for my personal experience and mind widening, of course.
Lesley Manville was wonderful as the dog's owner, Gail, half-indignant, half-bewildered (her default setting for the next five nights), eyes narrowing as her mind widened to admit the possibility that her husband, Malcolm Peter Firthh), was lying about the purpose of his two-hour walks in the woods of an evening.
My listening habits in my son's early months transported me to the easier days of my childhood, but also to pop stars who opened my mind, widened my eyes, pumped my heart – larger-than-life creatures such as Adam Ant, Boy George, and, yes, David Bowie, who took me by the hand, and showed me a wider, bolder world.
It opens your mind, widens your perspective and inspires you to take action.
You know, opening their minds, widening their horizons, giving them a glimpse outside of reality television and video games.
It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible".
But perhaps I'm just making up reasons to excuse my own laziness, using an anti-canonical argument to justify not bothering to read anything mind-widening.
The point here is only that Americans do not seem to mind about the widening inequality of income and wealth as much as you might expect them to in current circumstances.
Gordon Brown undoubtedly has economic rescue in mind, but somehow widening the M25 and cutting the VAT rate seem unlikely to leave quite the same aesthetically pleasing mark on the landscape.
