Sentence examples for over the mind from inspiring English sources

To locate such a cosy nest, he explains, the parasite takes over the mind of a rodent, making it behave like an easy feline lunch.

Through means reminiscent of Gillian Cross's 1980s children's book The Prime Minister's Brain, in which the Demon Headmaster sets out to take over the mind of the prime minister with the use of a hypnotising computer game, Brady engineers a mass suicide.

Our aim should not be to pick the brain over the mind, or vice versa, but to build stronger bridges between our understandings of the two.

Thus it found sustenance during the age of medieval Christendom, when Christian dogma sought universal sway over the mind of Western man.

The Atlantic Monthly, having finished only "Fantine," the first of five parts, proclaimed that "it is impossible to escape from the fascination it exerts over the mind".

And yet Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language's power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think.

"If you can control or influence our education system, you can start taking over the minds of the young people," Mr. Rives said.

Parasites don't just cause nasty infections; they can also take over the minds of their hosts.

Today, Ophiocordyceps fungi are well known for taking over the minds of ants such as the Camponotus leonardi worker pictured above.

Hoover recalls Carmichael asking him, "Why would you be so committed to turning over the minds of your children to people who have oppressed them for 400 years?

Jinns have the ability to possess and take over the minds and bodies of other creatures, including humans, and to behave in either a good or evil manner.