Sentence examples for unworthy thoughts from inspiring English sources

distrust, uncertainty, and self-disgust chased each other in an abject downward spiral, and she began to feel that she had contaminated the marriage before it had properly begun....The next stage was revelation to her husband of the unworthy thoughts; and the die was cast.... Jealousy impoverishes.

And I immediately had an unworthy thought: Oh boy.

Not an unworthy thought to take into a new year.

I had an unworthy thought: Wait till Bob gets a load of this.

LISTENING to this morning's Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Bagehot's first, unworthy thought was: blimey, it's Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show.

(The unworthy thought crosses my mind that some would-be solvers may have looked for Azed among the book reviews and lost interest when they failed to find it. Surely not).

When journalists joined him in the events he organised, exploring all sorts of food, the unworthy thought of a luxurious freebie was always subordinate to the expectation that something potentially newsy, and with plenty of arresting quotes, was in the air.

An unworthy thought crawls through my brain: is this a man-pleasing exercise – are they afraid that men might find even the slightest whiff of feminism a turn-off, so they bang on about "equality" to keep everything safely gender-neutral and "sexy"?

And when, earlier this month, Jack McConnell announced a new executive team for the Scottish Qualifications Authority, the unworthy thought instantly crossed my mind that the Minister was making contingency plans to ensure that the scapegoats were in place should anything go wrong this year.

Is it a conspiracy (unlikely), are all my thoughts unworthy of publication (certainly a possibility) or am I simply being gathered up by the OBO spammer?

There's a certain irony here, of course, in experts supposedly dedicated to understanding the way the mind works dismissing certain thoughts as unworthy of attention or explanation.