Sentence examples for particular mentality from inspiring English sources

"I think it takes a particular mentality of privilege or superiority to think that you're allowed to be personally cruel to another person who you don't even know.

Do you have any particular insights into the mentality of Roman drivers, i.e. the urgency with which they conduct their affairs and the tendency to not decelerate when a pedestrian crosses their trajectory?

While still vocal supporters of both the swing revival and its bands, the Daddies adamantly tried to disassociate themselves from the swing scene and in particular its nostalgia-based mentality.

The Angels played aggressively before Scioscia; Collins in particular favored a hard-charging mentality, and Maddon spent years as a minor league instructor sharpening the organization's focus.

Panpsychism is the doctrine that every physical particular enjoys some measure of mentality.

I can no longer talk about inclusion for the outcast and faith in the underdog, yet vote down the "us vs. them" mentality of a particular party.

She proceeds to explain getting caught up in the herd mentality of this particular vice, and adds (with a giggle) that, "I've been known to order a thing or two off of infomercials".

German politicians in general, and Mrs Merkel in particular, have pandered to Germans' small-country mentality and their belief that responsibility for fixing the euro lies elsewhere.

Shlaes wisely avoids trying to invade every recess of Coolidge's mentality, but she has no particular gift for the simpler business of biography.

And this, he argues, would be a theory of teleology — a preprogrammed or built-in tendency in the universe toward the particular goal of fulfilling the possibilities of mentality.

"In the N.B.A., in particular, there's a glorification of the tycoon mentality," explains Jon Wertheim, a tennis and basketball commentator for Sports Illustrated.