But behind this apparent insouciance lay a sharply probing mind.
Robert, who survived a harrowing war experience, had more of a wide-ranging curiosity, more of a poet's probing mind.
He seemed to have a probing mind.
Fyfield has a gift for probing troubled minds, but Henry's head is just too thick for her delicate touch.
Probing their minds in much the same way that Anna examines the tiny wasps and flies she is cataloguing for a Dublin museum, she takes us uncomfortably close to that undiscovered place where all species, human and otherwise, learn the skills of mating -- and killing -- for survival.
Mr. Le Carré, probing the mind of the traitor in "The Perfect Spy," believed so: "Betrayal can only happen if you love," he wrote.
Against this backdrop, Alderman probes the minds of Miryam (Mary), Iehuda (Judas), Caiaphas (the high priest) and Bar-Avo (Barabbas), who alternate as narrators, portraying a Jewish community in crisis, its leader and high priests co-opted by Rome's prefect, its temple in Jerusalem plundered and its populace increasingly disillusioned and restive.
Fifty Shades of Grey may be a fun read, but it's not going to help you probe the minds of others the way War and Peace might.
It was devastating, no, a pure tragedy, in my probing kid-mind that we weren't similar to any cartoon family on TV.
With Satyagraha (1979) and Akhnaten (1983), its immediate followers, it formed a trilogy of "portrait operas" that probed the minds of non-violent change-agent personalities in human history.
