Sentence examples for state of openness from inspiring English sources

"When you're laughing, you enter into a state of openness and, in that state of openness, you can change the world".

"We think this is part of the political reforms and the state of openness which the country is experiencing under the rule of President Bashar," Mr. Naesa said.

(I figure I won points for having a "beginner's mind," the state of openness, readiness, that I'd learned was to be celebrated).

Such is Lowe's positivity, extensive knowledge and eternal fan-boy approach to interviewing, that he's capable of lulling even the most prickly and impenetrable characters into a state of openness.

The ball communicates in every language, you get to see the locals in a rare state of openness and passion, and you meet the culture in its most convivial and gregarious mode, when it is most ready to include an outsider in its rites (so long as he's wearing the right colours).

Rabbi Eilberg defines the process of moving from enemy to friend as "the movement from the heart and mind closed in fear and wounding to a state of openness and curiosity about another human being".

Seen from different angles and in different states of openness, the pavilion can look like a ship riding a wave, like a bird in flight, or very like a whale.

At least part of Aiken's mind evidently remained in a state of childlike openness.

He denied that it contradicted the bishops' stated spirit of openness.

He even created the 1950s-inspired furnithee, the chairs designed to "induce and sustain a specific state of alertness and openness to the unknown".

The so-called "Beijing model" remains a one-party state, despite all the talk of "openness" and "state-led capitalism": it continues to maintain tight control of political expression, speech, religion, and assembly.