Some strange, occult spell seemed to enthrall me, for the phenomena I had experienced were remarkable, while the varied mental sensations were utterly mystifying.
As I followed him into the study, I felt I must collect myself and show some reserve of mental strength and energy, but on entering, I was horror-stricken at the sight.
The exposure and hardships of the winter before had undoubtedly impaired his mental powers.
Many regarded her condition as insanity, and believed that Mr. Dorrance erred in not giving her up to the care of those making mental disorders a specialty.
Not one indication of great physical or great mental strength could you point out in Mercy Philbrick; but she was rarely ill; and she had never been known to give up a point, small or great, on which her will had been fully set.
Mrs. Carr had been steadily growing feebler all summer; but the change had seemed to Mercy to be more mental than physical, and she had been in a measure blinded to her mother's real condition.
When her mental depression and suffering reached such a stage that she could not safely see a human face but his, he shut himself up with her in her darkened room till the crisis had passed.
They have attained their end, the end of all art, at an earlier mental period.
All this world of ours, which to the contemplative mind is but a figurative fragment of the universe, lies before the mental gaze of the Buddha.
It's a thousand chances that I shall find something to confirm my diagnosis in the lectures of Professor Ball on mental diseases.
On his way to the commissary's he felt as calm and as free from mental care as though he had been on his way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to decipher despatches.
It is an incontestable fact that medical men are excessively predisposed to mental aberration.
I never saw him fuller of mental and physical vigor and of hope for the future than then.
If Life is measured by intensity, hers was a very long life--and yet with that rich development of mental gifts, purity and singleness made her one of the little children of whom and of whose like is the Kingdom of Heaven.
On her mental side she certainly gave the impression, from the originality of her letters and sayings, and her appreciation of what was best in literature, that her gifts were of a high order.
Nearly all of the mental efforts of the white South run through one narrow channel.
And nothing will do more to change that mental attitude and raise his status than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through the production of literature and art.
The status of the Negro in the United States' is more a question of national mental attitude toward the race than of actual conditions.
Mr. Gibney had a swift mental picture of such a proceeding and chuckled happily.
There ain't enough real seamanship in the crew o' this craft to tax the mental make-up of a Chinaman.
His honest Scandinavian heart throbbed with anticipated pleasure as he conjured up a mental picture of the surprise and delight of Captain Scraggs at this unexpected meeting with his old deckhand.
Mr. Gibney forgot his own mental agony and roared with laughter in Tabu-Tabu's face.
You're sufferin' from acquired idiocy, which is the mental state folks find themselves in when they refuse to learn by experience an' profit by example.
What he lacked, with so much mental brilliancy, was moral greatness.
In Italy the zeal for the classics took its origin; and scholarship, to which we owe our mental training, was at first the possession of none almost but Italians.
Yet since he could not live without severe mental exercise, he had recourse to studies which tax the verbal memory less than the intuitive faculties of the reason.
That his guest should reject the one hope of escape left him was, according to Mr. Cooke, only to be accounted for by a loss of mental balance.
And his affairs, mental and material, are, happily for him, such that he can generally carry out his notions with small inconvenience.
Summon a mental picture of the person you wish to reach.
The mental prayer had scarcely passed my thoughts, when an object came under my eyes, that swept my theories to the wind, sending a fresh pang through my heart.
Nay, more--his countenance wore an expression indicative of greatmental suffering, apparently as acute as my own.
So far as mentalcultivation went, she was fit society even for the daughter of a proud Randolph.
A mental examination follows and cases are placed under the direct supervision of a skilled neurologist and psychologist.
Much out-door work of a constructive character is carried on, both for its physical effects and for mental and moral results.
Mentality:--Of peculiar value, in view of the public interest in the question of mental defect as a cause of delinquency, is a study of the mentality of our 647 women.
The discovery of physical and mental weakness, often after prolonged study, leads to a definite course of action.
This is owing doubtless in part to the absolute compatibility of temperaments in all the marriages, and partly also to the reaction upon the body of a state of ideal mental and moral health and placidity.
When in turn the mind-reader comes to see the mental and moral self reflected in other minds as in mirrors, the same thing happens.
The absolute openness of their minds and hearts to one another makes their happiness far more dependent on the moral and mental qualities of their companions than upon their physical.
How shall I describe the delightful exhilaration of moral health and cleanness, the breezy oxygenated mental condition, which resulted from the consciousness that I had absolutely nothing concealed!
Unfortunately there is nothing in Ralph Denham to make him the object of such an ardour, unless his brusque way of trying to bully people of lessmental calibre than himself makes him a heroic figure.
He wept to think of all those single beds, Those desperate night-long solitudes, Those mental salons full of nudes.
She knew this type very well--the vague aspirations, themental dishonesty, the familiarity with the outsides of books.
He seemed to be afflicted with mental and physical inertia, for when he spoke it was in slow drawl hardly louder than a whisper, and every movement of his body was correspondingly deliberate.
It is strange how little one misses the morning newspaper once one is beyond its reach and has properly adjusted one's mental perspective.
He was suffering from Bright's disease with its consequent weakness, loss of mental alertness, and lack of concentration.
No matter how long one has lived in China one remains in a condition of mental suspense unable to decide which is the filthiest city of the Republic.
The life form had apparently detected the first tendrils of thought from the Challonari and without preamble, as a natural defense, erected a savage mental shield.
Like the sharp crack of a squib, the quick spit of a cat, the memory erupted and flung him back on his mental heels.
Because the hand-me-down knowledge is no longer backed by the mental capacity of a Challon.
The mental shielding of the intruder blazed and crackled with increasing dissonance, radiating pain, fear and panic, but no decipherable intelligent thought.
His own great pity for the sick creature outside conquered the inertia of approaching death and he rallied what mental forces he still retained.
With a deft skill he planted a suggestion, then hastily withdrew from contact before the impossible discord of mental cacophony became unbearable.
We have established complete liberty of conscience, and, in consequence, a complete liberty for mental activity.
Whatever his individual preferences, his mental organization is so large and happy, that he enjoys, and can do equal justice to, Father Lacordaire and M.
To all sane men is allotted a complete endowment of mental faculties, of capacities of intellect and feeling; the degree to which these are energized, are injected with nervous flame, makes the difference between a genius and a blockhead.
What were the worth of a comment of John Locke on "Paradise Lost," except to reveal the mental composition of John Locke?
And then between the substance, the mental material, and the executive faculties there must be lively harmony.
To be sure, like the poetical, or the scientific, or any mental gift, it requires culture.
Through the exquisite shock of the beautiful he reaps an accession of mental magnetism.
All other faculties it makes prolific; it is themental generator.
Excellence in style demands three vivacities, and rather exacting ones, for they involve a somewhat rare mental apportionment; the vivacities of healthy and poetic feeling, of intellectual nimbleness, and of inviolable sequence.
From the earliest period at which note could be taken of their manifestation, he evinced the possession of superior mental endowments.
Lastly, no great mental effort is required to decide who labelled two communication trenches "The Gorbals" and "Coocaddens" respectively!
Does it not show an utter loss of all appreciation of the beautiful and the true, and a state of mental degradation as deplorable, as it is alarming in its practical results?
And in the end, unless they obtain enough mental and moral hardiness to lift them out of their soft reliance on "feeling," they are failures.
We have to recognize the unevenness in humanmental equipments.
Thus also we have made it unnecessary for the highest types of mental ability to be engaged in every operation in the factory.
The habit of failure is purely mental and is the mother of fear.
If a man has worked too hard or through too long hours he gets into a mental state that invites accidents.
The college renders its best service as an intellectual gymnasium, in which mental muscle is developed and the student strengthened to do what he can.
There is the phrase "heavyweight" as applied to a man's mental apparatus!
The wages settle nine tenths of the mental problems and construction gets rid of the others.
Part of the work of preventing accidents is to avoid this mental state; part is to prevent carelessness, and part is to make machinery absolutely fool-proof.
The point is this: Great piles of knowledge in the head are not the same as mental activity.
To say, however, that mental gymnastics can be had only in college is not true, as every educator knows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
