Sentence examples for thought shows from inspiring English sources

A moment's thought shows that this cannot truly be so.

You might imagine that your average speed is halfway between 15 and 60, but a little thought shows that this isn't true: your average speed is only 24 miles an hour.

Men, for instance, routinely claim in surveys conducted all over the world to have slept with more women than vice versa an observation that a moment's thought shows is impossible.

Although a moment's thought shows the old canard that males are actually, on average, more promiscuous than females cannot be true (since every reproductive act involves one of each) biologists have known for a long time that in most species males want to be more promiscuous than females.

A bit of thought shows that this rule reliably identifies the correct hypothesis in the long run, no matter which of the two competing hypotheses is correct.

As Bagehot pointed out, "a little experience and less thought shows that royalty cannot take credit for domestic excellence".

"This ill-thought idea, shows how out of touch and out of ideas Plaid are".

New Confucianism is a movement to adapt Confucianism to modern thought, showing how it is consistent with democracy and modern science.

Once the pool of applicants has been narrowed to 20 or so, Downey looks for succinct cover letters with a logical flow of thought showing a strong, logical line of research that complements her department's existing specialties.

It is because nature as conceived from this standpoint is excluded from the divine substance, according to Feuerbach, that medieval thought showed no interest in the investigation of nature.

Abelard rejects each of these theories and proposes instead an adverbial theory of thought, showing that neither mental images nor mental contents need be countenanced as ontologically independent of the mind.