Sentence examples similar to torn mind from inspiring English sources

There is your money Sir!" The Earl produced £70 of his own money and presented it to the surprised sailor "but no more tears mind, no more tears Sir".

A British astrophysicist said that pondering the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" could "tear the mind asunder".

Constance Gordon Cumming, whose late-19th-century voyages took her from Fiji to India, China, Japan and Australia, said of trips home that "such visiting involves more wear and tear of mind and body than any amount of traveling in distant lands".

The fragmentary quality of Short's verses -- they leapfrog from puckish obscenity to high lyricism ("This cold gossip is the wind / settling into the trees like prayer / into a pilgrim"); from vivid word salad ("pshaw, pshaw / sluice the black cabs") to wry philosophizing -- mimics a mind torn between grief and celebration, at once concentrated and unable to concentrate.

Yet if they are writhings of Macbeth's war-torn mind, why don't they correspond to his description?

So, as with so many decisions a parent must take, I was in two minds; torn between the inherent impulse to give my kid a good time, and the conscious struggle to try to live a good life.

Carrie wasn't bipolar this time round, but she was definitely of two minds, torn between having Brody and her C.I.A. career until, a little like Rick in "Casablanca," she realized that she had to trick him into leaving so she could stay behind and fight the good fight.

In the C minor Sonata, heart and mind are torn between the gravity of the work and the beauty of Lubimov's musicianship.

There is a doctor who takes his young son along on house calls because he likes company, a woman who sleeps with her sick husband so she can get him his medicine during the night, a physician who is torn between his "Hippocratic mind" and thoughts of administering a lethal dose of painkillers to his dying father.

Certainly, sir. I'm sure she won't mind being torn from Brad and her children and slathered in butter.

Use old blankets or t-shirts that you don't mind getting torn or urinated on.