Sentence examples for minded to pass from inspiring English sources

But Mr Hunt has said he is minded to pass the matter to the Commission.

Mindfulness practices often include the technique of just allowing the negative states of mind to pass rather than acting on them, but it is far more effective to eliminate the patterns of thought that result in anger.

It was never in my mind to pass judgment, though".

Failure was something he could not brook, and to avoid it he spared neither himself nor his companions, neither his native followers nor the inhabitants of the country through which he had made up his mind to pass.

Similarly, he said, it crossed his mind to pass up the Lincoln Center presidency in favor of keeping the jazz chairmanship, but this time he felt he could tear himself away.

He took Hume's 'tendencies of the mind to pass' from one idea to another, without which we could not construct the world, and canonized them as a priori categories of the understanding.

It may not have started out as a forgery, but partway through, according to a 1964 book by scholar Clare K. Rothschild, this person actively made up their mind to pass the letter off as Paul's writing, going way out of their way to use Paul's language and style in order to ensure that their opinion took hold and became doctrine.

Thus Hume's treatment of substance is like his treatment of causation, in that he sees both as the projection onto the world of a tendency of our minds either to pass from one thing to another or to associate them in some way.

The data our unconscious mind selects to pass along is the basis of what we perceive as our reality.

Profound changes in attitudes about race in America had occurred since 1947, when Anatole Broyard, who during the war had been the white officer in charge of a regiment of black stevedores, left his parents and sisters behind him in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, having made up his mind to continue to pass as white in the bohemian milieu of Greenwich Village.

The mind can act to pass to greater perfection, that is, to preserve its own being and increase its power of action; indeed insofar as it genuinely acts it is doing both, and so acting as such generates affects (but not passions) of joy and desire.