"It's the freedom to challenge your mind, to admit failure and then to start again.
Compassion is a healthy part of strength, as is the ability to change one's mind, to admit failure, to learn from experience, and to try another 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.
No one in their right mind wants to admit to having used that word, especially not someone who is in the limelight as much as Ms. Deen.
They might not have in mind today to admit that the failure of Kofi Annan's plan will not occur because of the man and his plan, but rather as a result of the nature of the regime in Damascus, but they will certainly have to address the "moment of truth" as the deadline for thinking of a "Plan B," on July 21st, draws near.
Instead of pushing your anger into the recesses of your mind or refusing to admit it is there, be mindful of what you are feeling.
Challenging Cleanthes to explain what he means by God's mind, Philo pushes him to admit that he means "a mind like the human".
Put the old Twingo out of your mind, and you have to admit that the new car has a lot going for it; there's keen pricing, cheap insurance, a willing manner and comprehensive equipment levels for a start.
"These days," said Mr. Dolinsky, chief of the service's Historic American Buildings Survey, "in the back of everyone's mind, whether they want to admit it or not, is the thought of catastrophic replacement".
Mind you, I have to admit that despite her rather transparent habit of hiding behind a garbled narrative (Rather than actually answer a question on Mali, why don't I just blurt out a rough chronology of events AT A MILLION MILES AN HOUR?), she didn't stick her foot in it once last night and I guess that has to be worth something.
