Sentence examples for rare mind from inspiring English sources

He had that rare mind which is not content with a contradiction unless it can find a governing principle explaining why it is not really a contradiction.

But take a poem such as "Plato Elaborated" (1977), and even in translation one sees abundant evidence of a rare mind, a fertile talent for metaphor, for exact detail, and for a philosophical or metaphysical playfulness.

It is a rare, mind-easing combination to be handed before a game.

Those bars must be placed high, and the rare minds who manage to vault over them must be regaled with anthems and medallions.

Discrete artworks are rare, never mind paintings; Jasper Johns's famous admonition to "take an object, do something to it," seems to have been upgraded to the more aggressively territorial "take a space, fill it with something".

So rare, so mind-blowing were the informants that Tim recruited that the CIA gave them the crypt or secret designation DB/ROCKSTARS.

Larry David is one of those rare comic minds who can reshape language and form as a way of handing power to the interloper.

Carefree happiness – that extraordinarily rare state of mind for us frequent flyers – might just become a reality.

He has the rare kind of mind that is a pure pleasure to watch in action, regardless of the subject and the argument being made.

Pendleton, though, showed a rare presence of mind for such an inexperienced jockey aboard her mount Royal Etiquette, as she switched from her initial plan to sit off the pace when the first two furlongs were run at a crawl.

Judges' comment: "Daring and accomplished, this is a novel with a rare capaciousness of mind and heart". In a nutshell: A dying 101-year-old man is watched over by his closest and only friend.