Sentence examples for units thoughts from inspiring English sources

Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés, that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body.

Elsewhere in the unit, thoughts ran a wide range.

The patient will write as detailed as possible about the most painful images (e.g. physician's face, surgeon, hospital appliances, intensive care unit), thoughts (e.g. it is my fault, I am going to die) and emotions (e.g. embarrassment, feeling dirty and helpless).

A New York City police officer took the stand yesterday in his trial in the shooting two years ago of an unarmed Bronx teenager, providing an illuminating picture of how officers with the Street Crime Unit thought and acted in their effort to get illegal guns off the street.

Note that the units of thought are at least logically prior to language, so language is not considered a pre-condition of thought.

"At the beginning of the year, when AOL was outperforming all the other units, the thought was, 'Did AOL pay too much for Time Warner?' " he said.

Slightly later the Polish scholar Tadeusz Kowalski tried to interpret the "molecular" structure of Arabic literature the absence of large units of thought or architectural structure typical of the greater part of Islamic literatures, which might be described as "carpetlike".

He even endorses Dawkins's notorious memes – those fashions in clothes or "units" of thought or snatches of song that are said to inhabit our minds – a fantasy so witheringly demolished by the formidable Mary Midgley.

Amy Summerville is the head of the Miami University's Regret Lab, a study unit for thoughts of "what might have been" and their effects.

He created what Richard Dawkins has called a meme – a cultural unit of thought that perpetuates itself through imitation, though mimesis.

The Nelsonian unit of thought is not the chapter but the paragraph, a mode that allows for deep swerves and juxtapositions, for the interspersing of anecdote and analysis.