Sentence examples for upon the mind from inspiring English sources

Moments of arresting humor or horror imprint themselves upon the mind.

Mr. Manguel's novel is minor, for sure, but serious and worthy: its best moments imprint upon the mind.

Arabic literature in general displays a strong and vivid imagination not easily amenable to the rigorous order that reason imposes upon the mind.

A bird hurtles like an arrow into a dark ocean, roiled and glowing like St Elmo's fire; together they act upon the mind like some frightening augury.

At her best, McBride is fulfilling Woolf's injunction to "record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall".

Gilpin defended the drama as "a study in the psychology of fear as it works upon the mind of an ignorant man of superstitious tendencies".

In each instance, we readily forgive our own minds but look harshly upon the minds of other people.

Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

In his application to the U.S. Patent Office, Bradley insisted that his game was "intended to forcibly impress upon the minds of youth the great moral principles of virtue and vice".

Although the bias blind spot itself isn't a new concept, West's latest paper demonstrates that it applies to every single bias under consideration, from anchoring to so-called "framing effects". In each instance, we readily forgive our own minds but look harshly upon the minds of other people.

In his application to the U.S. Patent Office, Bradley insisted that his game was "intended to forcibly impress upon the minds of youth the great moral principles of virtue and vice". But the Checkered Game of Life is at least as dark as its predecessors and more ruthless.