Sentence examples for shut minds from inspiring English sources

It is not a subject for those with weak constitutions or shut minds.

The strong Black woman should probably keep her mouth shut, mind her manners, let family walk all over her, put on her white face for her career, be a Super Hero to all of her friends, and still find the time to just fall her unstable behind into the arms of the perfect man that she can actually call all hers.

The Vietnam War was fought until a clear majority of U.S. citizens hated it so much that they not only wanted it to end but shut their minds to Vietnam for a generation.

I just shut my mind to these things".

At some point, you can't shut your mind to what is happening around you".

I decided to shut my mind off and steer by instinct.

Until I started writing the book, I just shut my mind off.

"I tried to shut my mind, but the pain gets through; when I thought it was over, I realised they had other plans for me".

Thus for a neutral it was heart-warming to see him show the strength of character to shut his mind to the boos and, when sent clear in the second period, cap an absorbing and thrilling match by converting successive chances with aplomb.

You have to shut your mind to that stuff, to maintain the illusion that you're just writing for you.The minute you start thinking about the people who like or don't like you, it's not going to be good because you're second-guessing.

Again, some stories hit you so hard that after the initial mesmerising horror, your secondary instinct is to protect yourself, to shut the mind down, halt the imagination before it conjures the details that lurk between the brisk lines of the news reports.