Sentence examples for philosophical turn from inspiring English sources
He was a languid aristocrat with a philosophical turn of mind.
His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times (1960; film 1967), is a philosophical turn on the western genre.
All that, of course, was 30 years ago, and in the intervening period, though still interested in art, Benji has taken a more philosophical turn.
Families taking younger members on the basis of the botched Disney movie may not just be surprised by the three-hour running time, and a particularly predatory wolf, but also by the philosophical turn of the second half.
"Mr. Weiner has a poetic and philosophical turn of mind," Richard Bernstein wrote in a review in The Times, "and he manages to see the almost spiritual implications of the search for the deepest truths about the nature of life".
Certain phrases are standard in movies, such as "Gee, you're wonderful" spoken by young man becoming aware heady scent of young woman; or "Sometimes I wonder" which is invariably utterance of person of philosophical turn of mind, after deep thought.
As a nation, we are at a philosophical turning point, seeing the consequences of unchecked egocentrism and, let's hope, reconsidering our roles in society.
(We take this way of putting the example to be the most natural one, but nothing philosophical turns on it. If you like, substitute the possibility of northerners endorsing honor values after exposure to the facts).
There are countless jaundiced-philosophical turns of phrase that sound like the authorial voice ("Love shouldn't be mediated through consumption", and so on).
At the same time, his compassion for his patients and his own philosophical outlook turn what might have been clinical case studies into humanely written short stories, animated as much by an intuitive appreciation of the human condition as by scientific understanding.
But both the demon-free expectations of the novice reader of Marx's Foreword to Capital and the initial appearance, based on the dearth of typical Western ethical language, of a lack of evil in Marx's philosophical world turn out to be seriously in error.
