His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

Her thoughts were not discrete.

This was my second day in Vientiane, the administrative capital of Laos, and my thoughts were none too brave.

After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.

Only -- only -- her thoughts were a little strange.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

* The School of " Minor-talks ", which was not a unique school of thought, but a philosophy constructed of all the thoughts which were discussed by and originated from normal people on the street.

He named these cognitions " automatic thoughts " because he believed that people were not necessarily aware that the cognitions existed, but that they could identify these types of thoughts when questioned closely.

Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

Yasna 19 ( which has only survived in a Sassanid era ( 226 – 650 CE ) Zend commentary on the Ahuna Vairya invocation ), prescribes a Path to Judgement known as the Chinvat Peretum or Chinvat bridge ( cf: As-Sirāt in Islam ), which all souls had to cross, and judgement ( over thoughts, words, deeds performed during a lifetime ) was passed as they were doing so.

There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in Lucknow, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated.

It was invented to isolate class-alien, socially dangerous, disruptive, suspicious, and other disloyal elements ( real and imaginary ones ) whose deeds and thoughts were not contributing to the strengthening of the so called dictatorship of the proletariat.

Confronted by the new experiences, difficulties and suffering created by empire-building, Spanish thinkers formulated some of the first modern thoughts on natural law, sovereignty, international law, war, and economics ; there were even questions about the legitimacy of imperialism – in related schools of thought referred to collectively as the School of Salamanca.

Overall the philosophers were inspired by the thoughts of René Descartes, the skepticism of the Libertins and the popularization of science by Bernard de Fontenelle.

Marx's thoughts on labour were related to the primacy he gave to the economic relation in determining the society's past, present and future ( see also economic determinism ).

" Alberti's thoughts on harmony were not new — they could be traced back to Pythagoras — but he set them in a fresh context, which fit in well with the contemporary aesthetic discourse.

Diachronic lexical semantics was interested without a doubt in the change of meaning with predominantly semasiological approach, taking the notion of meaning in a psychological aspect: lexical meanings were considered to be psychological entities ), thoughts and ideas, and meaning changes are explained as resulting from psychological processes.

God is supposedly a mind, but this mind differs radically from the human mind, because, first, it has the ability to create physical objects out of nothing, through thought alone ; and, second, it does not have any series of thoughts at all, but remains in the same mental state, apart from time, or as it were throughout eternity.

The thoughts of Hồ Chí Minh were systematised in 1989, under the leadership of Nguyễn Văn Linh.

The caves were used again for Doctor Who The end of Time ( 2009 ) Scene includes the Doctor sharing thoughts and visions with the ood.

This condition of " cognitive overload " results in diminished information retaining ability and failing to connect remembrances to experiences stored in the long-term memory, leaving thoughts " thin and scattered ".

Instead of making it, as usual in devotional books, a book of scattered thoughts, changing from day to day, I have woven the devotions around one theme, VICTORIOUS LIVING.

" thoughts were scattered by the rustling of the leaves below her.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

It is not disturbing them by thoughts of their Christian responsibility in relation to the world.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.

For the most part, his writing rambles and jogs, preventing easy access by the reader to his true thoughts.

The first charter of human rights by Cyrus the Great as understood in the Cyrus cylinder is often seen as a reflection of the questions and thoughts expressed by Zarathustra and developed in Zoroastrian schools of thought of the Achaemenid Era of Iranian history.

He emphasizes in this section, by way of warning, that philosophers with nuanced thoughts will likely be cast aside in favor of those whose conclusions more intuitively match popular opinion.

The CD-ROM edition included numerous annotations by Vinge on his thoughts and intentions about different parts of the book.

Besides living together under continuous observation, which is the major attraction of the contest, the program relies on four basic props: The stripped-bare, back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the " Diary / Confession Room ", in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations and reveal their nominees for eviction.

In this reading, his good nature is so revolted by these thoughts that he gives his sword and dagger to Fleance to be sure they do not come true, but is so nervous at Macbeth's approach that he demands them back.

Communication ( from Latin " communis ", meaning to share ) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

* In the film What Women Want ( 2000 ), Mel Gibson's character tries to block out his daughter's thoughts by muttering the poem under his breath.

Similarly, Arthur C. Clarke's " Crusade " revolves around a planetwide life-form based on silicon and superfluid helium located in deep intergalactic space, processing its thoughts slowly by human standards, that sends probes to look for similar life in nearby galaxies.

Where Whorf reasoned that the sophistication of a language controls the sophistication of the thoughts that can be expressed by a speaker of that language, Engelbart reasoned that the state of our current technology controls our ability to manipulate information, and that fact in turn will control our ability to develop new, improved technologies.

References to " dukkha " as one of life's situations abound in many of the suttas delivered by Lord Buddha Himself as well as in numerous Buddhist philosophical and psychological thoughts.

Christian's death depressed him and he was plagued by suicidal thoughts: " I live with the dead — my mother, my sister, my grandfather, my father … Kill yourself and then it's over.