Sentence examples for minds divided from inspiring English sources

Richter, who admits that the magazine was "rather tame", also notes that Tzara and his colleagues were dealing with the impact of communist revolutions, in particular the October Revolution and the German revolts of 1918, which "had stirred men's minds, divided men's interests and diverted energies in the direction of political change".

Like Los Angeles in the days of film noir, Miami is a state of mind divided between images of paradise and the abyss.

The night of his arrest had been catalogued in his mind, divided into an infinite series of micro-events: he remembered each flubbed line of the performance, the expressions on the faces of the audience members who'd expected and hoped for better.

The perceptions of the mind divide into two kinds: impressions and ideas (roughly, feeling and thinking): "Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul.

The approach is rooted in the core Buddhist notion that all psychological suffering is the result of the judgmental mind, dividing experiences into good and bad, which should be either strived for or avoided, inevitably leading to some level of frustration, distress, anxiety, and depression.

Resnais, who was born in the era of silent film, captures the sense of the virtual, of a world of interconnected minds and divided consciousness, with great vigor.

To gauge this and try to get some explanation, I called a dozen smart political minds, equally divided between Washington and around the United States.

Our hearts and minds are divided.

Ever since Plato, the Greeks, the Romans, and Middle Age religious institutions, the prevailing wisdom was that the mind was divided in two -- the rational mind and the emotional mind -- and that children had to be taught to use their reason to overcome their baser emotional instincts.

The crazy explanation Another solution to the puzzle was that something in Tammi's mind is divided or dissociated.

Her sinister crack in the world was a dark drawing on a stupendous scale, adrift in the mind, a divided landscape for a broken world.