Is she just not thinking or capable of thinking?
I was clearly naïve in thinking subtlety capable of cutting through the torrent of bile on social media.
It was a tactic meant to promote an image of her sister's innocence in the face of outraged reaction to "Wuthering Heights," but a tactic that also had the effect of making Emily seem like an empty vessel, "receiving her vision fully formed from the hand of fate," instead of "a thinking writer capable of weighing individual words with great care".
In this way tactics (as well as strategy) are subject to a peculiar logic one similar to that of competitive games such as football or chess but radically different from that governing technological activities such as construction or engineering, where there is no living, thinking opponent capable of reacting to one's moves.
On his account, the human animal sitting in your chair is not thinking because no animal is capable of thinking.
I think there is something very noble in people who are pissed – like, out of control pissed, yelling and shouting, falling over their own shoes – still thinking they are capable of doing their jobs.
These smaller companies could be nimble, forward-thinking entities capable of meeting the needs of consumers.
This is because,he holds, prior to this time, children are not capable of "thinking about thinking," the sort of meta-level thinking that characterizes philosophical thinking.
"I think it misled people into thinking they weren't capable of doing what they set out to do," said Mr. Palmer, now public policy editor of The Sunday Telegraph of London.
On the subject of what to do after graduation, though, the only critical thinking I seemed capable of was criticizing myself for not knowing what to think.
