Sentence examples for powers of mind from inspiring English sources

His opponent is his fellow-schmuck Therman (Zach Galifianakis), who has stolen Barry's wife by deploying his purported powers of "mind control".

Philosophically, Hobbes was influenced by nominalist scholastic philosophy, which had discarded Thomist metaphysics and had accepted strict limitations on the powers of mind.

In the late 1840's Melville rediscovered writing as the means by which to unfold his emerging powers of mind, a pleasure he found virtually addictive.

The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things". As the economy shifts steadily away from the brute force of things into the powers of mind, from resource-based bulk processing into knowledge-based design and reproduction, so it is shifting from a base of diminishing returns to one of increasing returns.

They speak of being a "conscience dreamer"; becoming a treasurer of a new currency; controlling "English grammar structure"; mentioned brainwashing and suggested that he believed he had powers of mind control.

The young picture restorer was equally "smitten", describing Mary Ann as "the most fascinating creature he had ever beheld … a person of such superior excellent and powers of mind".

Only then will people believe in the power of mind control".

In all its imperfection, this border is a monument to the power of mind over topography.

But he also cautioned against overstating the power of mind over body in producing illness.

The physicist Christiaan Huygens approached Isaac Newton himself in power of mind and importance of scientific contribution.

Mulches come in many forms, but they all seem to share a power of mind control over otherwise sensible folk.