Sentence examples for thought familiar from inspiring English sources

It's a depressing thought, familiar to everyone who has ever argued with anyone else about economics: do ideas about what's true and false, right and wrong, in economics even matter for policy-making in Washington?

Some commenters apparently think blogs should be an extension of precisely and only the kind of thought, and the kind of product of that thought, familiar to us before we had access to the wonderfully messy, culturally informative window into the human processing of the world that the Internet has given us.

Mr. Murray's book focuses on the journey of aging, "a rafting trip down a river I thought familiar but that became more unfamiliar, and faster, the further I traveled".

Bernard Levin described it as "the gnawing feeling that ultimate reality lies elsewhere, glimpsed out of the corner of the eye, sensed just beyond the light cast by the campfire, heard in the slow movement of a Mozart quartet, seen in the eyes of Rembrandt's last self-portraits, felt in the sudden stab of discovery in reading or seeing a Shakespeare play thought familiar in every line".

Such disgruntled thoughts — familiar to pretty much everyone who has ever been a teenager — would appear to be what motivates the Hamlet of a smoldering, charismatic and largely unknown actor named Jason Asprey (whose mother, Tina Packer, is the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company and — gulp! — this production's Gertrude).

Perhaps they thought these firms were worth a gamble a few months ago, but now believe they are unlikely to succeed.This is precisely the sort of thought process familiar to traditional venture capitalists, who make most of their money from 20% of the firms in which they invest, and get almost nothing from the rest.

Unlike "unconscious" behavior, which is by definition, inaccessible to conscious thought, our familiar behaviors that take shape across perceptual and bodily space are pre-reflective; they make reflective experience possible, for without the pre-reflective modality, the act of reflection would have nothing to turn itself toward.

Indeed, this line of thought sounded familiar to me because I had heard similar sentiments in my own country about Muslims.

The thoughts are familiar; only the name of the hero has changed.

I can truly relate to Verlyn Klinkenborg's thoughts on familiar places that are no longer there ("Remembered Spaces," The City Life, July 17).

The series grew beyond an easy joke about a mob boss with a midlife crisis, and became a family epic about characters who are so fully developed their very thoughts are familiar to us.