Sentence examples for ordinary thoughts from inspiring English sources

"You have to find weight in ordinary thoughts and language".

Schools vary widely, aiming to achieve total absorption in the present and a release from ordinary thoughts.

These are pretty ordinary thoughts, but ones that the dull noise coming from Westminster renders almost exotic – and essential.

At a time when many Americans long to believe that electing a black president cancels out a history of slavery, prejudice and entrenched inequality, Mr Mamet reminds the viewer of the insidious forms of racism that poison ordinary thoughts.

Narayan does not start with a generalisation, with a theory; he lets his characters demonstrate to us, through their very ordinary thoughts and actions, what it is to be human.

Roschelle Don's delightful observing of the frustrated flies might be improved by removing a few of the more factual, literal ideas (lines 12-13, or the Crystal Palace reference), or substituting for them some less ordinary thoughts?

Once again it is useful to begin from Kant, who distinguished two uses of the imagination: the first in ordinary thought and perception, the second in aesthetic experience.

Autistic thought isn't wholly incompatible with ordinary thought, he says; it's just a variation on it, a more extreme example.

The scientist, in this way of thinking, does not offer a truer description of the phenomena of which ordinary thought could make no sense but merely gives a connected description of a selected set of phenomena.

This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.

He aims indeed to break down the distinction between theoretical and ordinary thought.