Sentence examples for unwelcome thoughts from inspiring English sources

But, once you learn to keep yourself from voicing unwelcome thoughts, you forget how to think them — how to think freely at all — and ideas perish at conception.

As Ms. Pogrebin notes, greeting someone with the seemingly innocent question "How are you?" can prompt all kinds of unwelcome thoughts.

But "Shinju," a tale of love and bloody death in old Japan, felt very long and inspired unwelcome thoughts of George Balanchine's more pungent "Bugaku".

Now and then, her line of thinking detours via less political topics: how she's preparing her kids for her own death (a relic from the show she shelved, presumably); her husband's unwelcome thoughts on labiaplasty.

Sleep quietens the mind, stopping unwelcome thoughts and negative emotions in their tracks.

It's harder to forget someone if you're surrounded by items that spark unwelcome thoughts.

But, as he recognises, in modern liberal society this is an unwelcome thought: for us, love is a useless risk.

As he headed for his favorite spot in Manhattan, Mr. Light said, an unwelcome thought flashed across his mind: "It's an Afghani restaurant".

No one wants to talk about calories because cutting them means dealing with the concept of eating less food, an unwelcome thought for many people.

"Disaster Was My God" delivers a Rimbaud who forces literary true believers to ponder an unwelcome thought: that artistic ambition may sometimes be, as the guidance counselors say, just a phase that troubled teens — even geniuses — go through.

But if you do find yourself stuck with unwelcome anxious thoughts at night, try starting a worry journal.