Sentence examples for proper thinking from inspiring English sources

On "Labyrinth," you can hear Sting straining to be proper, thinking his way through every precious phrase, when those melancholy Dowland love songs with their great tunes would benefit hugely from Sting's being the same self-confident (yet still morose) guy who sang "King of Pain".

When we are infants our minds respond to physical "states" before proper thinking comes into being, but we stop doing it after about six months.

What they all have in common — Christian Science; its cousin Religious Science; Peale's 1952 megaseller; and contemporary best sellers like Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" — is a conviction that proper thinking, rather than religious faith or fervor, is the key to metaphysical power.

His latest solo show, International Indoor Championship Moaning, was a critical and commercial hit in Edinburgh last summer, and although he wears his learning lightly, it's always apparent that you're in the presence of a comic who's done some proper thinking, and not just another wag with the gift of the gab.

Yet brainstorming is no substitute for the heavy lifting of reading, writing and analysis... and no substitute for the proper thinking through of a problem.

It's only that the old ones wanted a negotiated 'Union', and the young ones a 'Union' done without proper thinking, as it came to pass".

In Stephen Sartarelli's elegant translation, it's an entertainment proper for the thinking person.

The Harvard man, apparently oblivious to the reality of what was happening around him, showed him the proper road without thinking.

Even though they were doing it mostly for the money, they knew that, for the students who read it, their textbook might be the only time in their lives that they were exposed to proper economic thinking, which of course would have an influence on their political thinking.

Aside from a conception of what town planning is that would embarrass a GCSE geography student, you can see here some proper red-blooded libertarian thinking.

If only this staging, a joint concept of the conductor Valery Gergiev and Mr. Tsypin, had had a proper budget, I kept thinking.