Sentence examples for twisted thoughts from inspiring English sources

I couldn't glance at medical pamphlets in the GP's waiting room because twisted thoughts convinced me that if I read about an illness I'd jinx myself and then develop that illness.

This would be a relatively long, difficult novel for Oprah's list, but the closeness with which van Niekerk hews to Milla's twisted thoughts gives her novel Oprah-worthy emotional bite.

She also kept a list of "twisted thoughts" that she sought to resist when they came, like her tendency to presume Jack was angry when he was making a neutral observation.

We learned that the Internet and social media sped one or both of them to wicked influences and let them steep in anger and twisted thoughts, the way the Internet and social media let anyone concentrate on a specific obsession, a single cluster of emotions.

Mulholland Dr. always reminds me of that Christmas I spend alone in LA with my twisted thoughts.

Its subject - summed up in the lyrics "I die, languishing, of grief / and the person who can give me life, alas, kills me" - seems to echo the twisted thoughts that would torture Gesualdo throughout his life.

Manyenga considered this, chewing his lips, his face twisting in thought.

When I get handed a new project brief, one that can make a big impact, I can often get all twisted up in my mental thoughts, and I really push myself to 'nail it' which only ends up with lame ideas and performance pressure.

A few ideas are slight twists on thoughts we've heard before; others are quirky and curious.

She twisted her ankle while lost in her thoughts, and Evan tenderly bore Laurel up in his arms and left the restaurant.

The differences show up in their "extended visual processing network," indicating that perceptions get twisted beneath the level of emotion or conscious thought, says Feusner, whose report appears in the December issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.