Sentence examples for unruly mind from inspiring English sources

I knew Dan's cooking and his obsessions in general were mechanisms to bind his anxiety, attempts to bring order to an unruly mind.

(The unruly mind being what it is, the thought occurred to me that I hadn't been embraced and kissed by so many males since congratulating, backstage, the talented cast of a New Orleans drag show).

Fortunately psychology can provide some vital intelligence on how to deal with an unruly mind.

Human thought resembles the structure of the natural world, remember, and it's all right to allow my very unruly and associative mind to jump from place to place.

Never mind the unruly tape which came unwound, cassettes were far better than CDs.

But this unruly thatch had a mind of its own, lying flat where it should not be and poking up where it should lie down.

Olshansky, a 43-year-old woman with a sharp legal mind and unruly black hair, opened the valentine and suspected an elaborate joke.

However, ear hair is extremely unruly and has a mind of its own.

There was once a plan to merge Brookfield and Parkside, diluting our perfect Brookfield minds with unruly Parkside scum.

The idea is to create a balance between public and private, inside and out, the Cartesian order of the mind and the unruly world of nature.

Their unruly surfaces, which can bring to mind de Kooning's sculptures, suggest something vulnerable, almost fleshlike, if not decaying.