Sentence examples for period of thinking from inspiring English sources

Reznor is full of praise for the album, saying that after a period of thinking it was "conservative", it became one of his favourites of the year.

We all have an idea of the types of people we want to get naked with, and I went through a very brief period of thinking a sober man would be my new ideal match now that I'm 'reformed'reformed

The underground work, he said, has entered a "quiet period" of thinking and planning as engineers ponder how to excavate debris from the basement without damaging the retaining wall, known as the "bathtub" that keeps the nearby Hudson River out of the site.

In a Vanity Fair profile in 1995, he referred to himself as "a mythical person" and was quoted saying, "I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.' " His biological father's surname was McPherson, and Robert the Bruce was a Scottish warrior of William Wallace's era and ilk.

However, the test-retest results may also be due to the small test-retest sample (which increases the statistical error on kappa, and reduces power on the Wilcoxon signed-rank test) and to the fact that many of the questions relate to experiences and attitudes regarding end-of-life issues which may be modified during a 2-week period of thinking about the issues.

Yates recalls that initially at Sky there was a period of experimentation, of "thinking outside the box", followed by a decision to focus on doing the simple things properly.

"Sure," he is saying, "sure I go through periods of thinking, what the hell, everything's falling apart, but that's a bit egotistical.

Instead, Dylan opened his concerts in Beijing and Shanghai with a scalding song from his so-called gospel period, "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking".

Polish Romanticism, conscious of its role as the torch of national spirit, retained its force as a mode of thinking beyond the period of the political circumstances that fostered it.

Natural selection was finally accepted after the 1930s, when the evolutionists realized "that none of the explanations of evolution based on the dominant way of thinking of the period--essentialism--was valid," says (Mayr 2001, p.115).

In a period of political turmoil, they offered a new way of thinking about the world and Englishness.