| 单词 | mental picture |
| 例句 | See if you can get a mental picture of her. 3RD JUROR: What d’ya mean, no glasses? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My mental pictures of Lwów seemed to be fading, like a photograph left outside in the sun. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It couldn’t have been a pretty mental picture. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian had a mental picture of the porcupine coming into his shelter in the dark, throwing the hatchet and hitting the rock embedded in the wall and getting sparks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Tendai had a mental picture of his father lining up everyone in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Dud gives him a leg up onto a red London mailbox, and the Devil sets about painting a mental picture—the technique known as enargia. devil: I’m God. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Right away, the script had to reveal where the story was happening and who the characters were, providing enough details for the listener to form a mental picture. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He had a sickening mental picture of a barn full of ponies, a roadster for Anne, motorcycles, a swimming pool, and, ultimately, the poor house or a debtors’ prison, if they still had such things. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In minutes, Gregor' was hopelessly lost, and the mental picture of their path that he’d been making in his head resembled one of Boots’s squiggly drawings. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the other faces, tried to take a mental picture so I could review it later. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I tried to make a mental picture of that. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gregor tried to get a mental picture of how many people that would be. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a haunting mental picture of Jane, fifteen years hence, still wearing pugs over her ears, long winter drawers, and heavy ribbed stockings. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z A mental picture of hamburger, the way they showed it in the television commercials, thundered into his thoughts. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of her time in that village she'll be met by looks of faint nausea as people paint a mental picture of their trans-generational rutting. The month in soap: Alice the spy nanny and the state of the Platt DNA 2013-06-01T05:00:21Z “A metaphor,” explains Ward Farnsworth, “tries to create a little event in the mind of the reader — a mental picture, a surprise, a new idea, or all these at once.” What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s the Provençal ideal of pale pink wine, combined with the idyll of pastoral tranquillity, that forms the mental picture of rosé as generally conceived. How Do You Define Rosé? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Formulate and stamp indelibly in your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z We might peruse this archive for a different reason: to expand our mental picture of the bomb itself. Art Review: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Black and White 2011-06-30T21:47:55Z He makes convincingly volumetric still lifes and figurative tableaus, working mostly from mental pictures. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z “I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.” John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Think segregated restaurants in the Deep South prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and you’re drawing a mental picture of what the Christian Right hoped to achieve in Kansas. Kansas, Arizona and the GOP’s terrible new Jim Crow-style laws 2014-02-26T13:23:00Z I had mental pictures of Barkin with a broken leg, and of course, of James Franco sawing off his arm in the film “127 Hours.” A Grand Canyon and slot-canyon challenge for the mostly over-the-hill set My own mental pictures came from a vibrant art exhibit by a Canadian cohort of painters known as the Group of Seven, whose works featured dramatic wilderness scenes in vivid colors. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z I have a mental picture of the film’s creators, stoned out of their minds on who knows what, cackling crazily as they outline a movie that would have more appropriately been titled “The Big Goof.” | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. Q&A: Ted Danson 2010-04-16T23:20:00Z It’s only when they’re asked to reproduce the mental picture on paper that they realized the number of details they never truly committed to memory. What Medical Students Learn from Drawing Mickey Mouse 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z NE My first mental picture of you, or maybe it's my first picture of you as Writer Guy, was at the Russian Tea Room, at your book party. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z My mental pictures of the characters in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” are all derived from Wyeth’s masterful images, and this exhibition includes several of them. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z So I sedately signaled, pulled back on the road and drove on, with only a mental picture to share with you. Reporting from Yellowstone, where the buffalo roam (wherever they darn well please) 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z We pulled in Friday evening with no plan, no must-sees, no mental picture of the place whatsoever. A Nevada Park That, at 77,000 Acres, Sneaks in Under the Tourist Radar 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z But there was a period when Magritte wanted to show everyone that their mental picture of him was all wrong. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Prior to this exercise, these students were confident that they could conjure up a clear mental picture of the Mouse. What Medical Students Learn from Drawing Mickey Mouse 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The province is not very big, and their mental picture was of a placid landscape on a peninsula better known for high tides than high hills. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Each new piece of information adds to, or reshapes, your mental picture. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “I just got this mental picture of an arcade cabinet with a giant rubber trombone attached,” he said. Trombone Champ Makes a Hit Video Game of an Unlikely Instrument 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Assembling a mental picture of a scene often requires that information heard at several different moments be merged. Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z “While the mental picture of Danny and Richard facing off was irresistible,” she said, “it was Danny’s willingness to do anything in shows like ‘Sunny in Philadelphia’ that made me really curious.” Danny DeVito Follows His Comedy Bliss to London 2012-07-23T14:54:11Z “They’re cheering on that mental picture — that every Marine is a bloodthirsty killer who is waiting to enact righteous violence,” Murphy said in an interview. On the right, support and donations pour in for Daniel Penny 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Patriot’s players embraced their coaches, and they captured a mental picture of the scoreboard: a 47-39 edge in their favor, the final exorcism of last year’s loss. Patriot gets past sticking point, secures spot in Class 6 title game 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But Dr. Segerman has aphantasia, an inability to construct mental pictures, or “visually hallucinate images at will,” as he puts it. A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Note that a model or mental picture is needed to explain experimental results, since the atom is too small to be directly observed with visible light. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z When you read about experiments, you probably have a mental picture of a scientist in a laboratory conducting tests or taking careful measurements. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z You might imagine that when you perceive something like a checkerboard, your brain passively takes a mental picture of the grid. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Interpreting these parts allows us to form a mental picture of the ellipse. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z When we look into the faces of our children and grandchildren, we're unable to form a mental picture of them struggling to survive in the world we've bequeathed to them. Facts haven’t spurred us to climate action. Can fiction? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.” Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “That way I get a mental picture and can start to relax and really open up to the experience.” How to Ski Blind 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I’m hoping that will gave him a mental picture of ‘this is what I need to do.’ Slow it down: Darnold’s mechanics a focus after benching 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In theory, magnetic pulses combined with cognitive training might enable people without a mind’s eye to strengthen the circuits required for mental pictures. Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z “My mental picture of the summer is that we’re going to be in a much better place than we are now,” she said. How Epidemiologists Are Planning to Vacation With Their Unvaccinated Kids 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z His pause after the word “be” lent a mental picture of untold bacchanal. The party’s still on for Tampa’s happy, home-team Super Bowl. It’s just not quite as rowdy. 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The family attended a church whose pastor, Norman Vincent Peale, wrote the bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking with advice to “stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding”. Trump's monumental sulk: president retreats from public eye as Covid ravages US 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Vague and bland language also serves the purpose of "naming things without calling up mental pictures of them." America's crimes against humanity aren't on the ballot this year — but they should be 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z He’d begun listening to Crimson Tide football on the radio in 1960, when he was 12 years old, coloring in mental pictures as broadcasters described the action. Ticket limits jeopardize fan’s 605-game attendance streak 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Despite these mental pictures, insulinoma is often misdiagnosed as a neurological or a psychological problem before the right diagnosis is made. She Was Healthy and Active. Suddenly She Had a Seizure. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z For the lyrics, Adamson may begin with a mental picture of a guy – other than himself. Fremont men team up on songwriting 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z “We had to find guys who can paint that mental picture for a player and find a way to tap into how they learn and get the most out of them,” the 38-year-old Judge said. Kitchens among additions to Judge’s staff with N.Y. Giants 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z In your mental picture of a hula dancer, you probably saw her doing a kaholo with her arms pointing to one side in “hula position.” Discovering My Hips in Hula Dancing 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The mental picture he kept - a landscape altered by bombings - was replaced by its transformation into a modern city. Vietnam War POW meets widow of pilot who shot his plane down 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The audience must assemble a mental picture as the agile vocal soloists—Theo Hoffman and Siena Licht Miller—sing and speak the fragmentary testimonies of friends, teachers, neighbors, medics, and journalists. Star-Crossed Pairings in “Porgy and Bess” and “Denis & Katya” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z My mental picture of her dissolved into his adjective soup. The Culinary Muse of the Caucasus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z And if Rus and her colleagues get their way, it won’t be long until our mental picture of what a robot looks like changes for good. This robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but it can lift 100 times its own weight 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “The funny thing about Dutch winters is we have a picture of snow and ice skating. That’s our mental picture of the winter,” he says. In the Netherlands, ice skating is ‘in the DNA.’ A warming climate could change that. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Though we were deep in Texas, only a few in Trump’s audience were wearing cowboy hats, or adhered in any way to our mental picture of a cowboy. Dave Eggers: why Donald Trump could win again 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z His Terpsichore about “steel slats” and the like reveal that he recognizes that the mental pictures he drew for years about a solid concrete barrier has become an *ahem* barrier to his larger ambitions. Trump’s escape route narrows 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z That means most microbes on the planet may not resemble our mental picture of a microbe at all, said Cara Magnabosco, a computational biologist the Flatiron Institute in New York. Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z “Picture Mark Twain’s head on Ichabod Crane’s body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it. That’s the idea.” Donald McCaig, award-winning chronicler of rural life and Civil War, dies at 78 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z No similar mental pictures conjure up domestic terrorists. Rightwing terror stalks America. Will Trump do anything to stop it? | Walter Shapiro 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Dr. Pepperberg, who once famously taught a parrot named Alex over 100 English words, said the researchers still needed to do more work to prove that the crows form mental pictures of the template. Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Second, the image of the two nations with the largest nuclear stockpiles literally fighting to the death is also a mental picture most national security professionals don’t really want to think about. U.S.-Russian clash in Syria merits a much closer look 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He said his mental picture of his Black Panther looked a lot like Boseman. ‘Black Panther’ movie’s novelization penned by native 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z With better measurements and continued improvement in algorithms, we might someday communicate through mental pictures. This ‘mind-reading’ algorithm can decode the pictures in your head 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “I was talking about vision being a spiritual and mental picture of your future that is forceful enough to mold your present,” she says. The televangelist advising the White House says she led Trump to Christ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z She said she would find it extremely exciting if this team or another conclusively shows that crows can learn by making a mental picture. Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “The mental picture is just fascinating, but the reality is just … no. No, no, no, no, no,” she said. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of ‘Morning Joe’ Are Engaged 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z When he gets an emergency call from a patient, he said, he gets a mental picture of that person in their home. Connecticut doctor making rounds to older patients’ homes 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z I have a mental picture of my other grandmother drinking the “blood” from roast beef with a spoon, an act that reminds her of her war childhood in Hartlepool. Food is important – but recipes aren’t sacred | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Le gave me a good-natured hard time for my continual requests for a mental picture of these maps. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z These playlists are full of great picks that paint a delightful mental picture of the world's most overworked human relaxing for five minutes by a picture window. I choose to believe President Obama himself created this excellent summer 2016 playlist 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In George Orwell’s classic 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” he noted that his era’s equivalents for “collateral damage” were “needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.” The last days of Washington, D.C.: America can no longer mask its steep decline 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “Just think for a minute if those snapshots had been in America – if from spring ’09, everybody’s mental picture of ex-detainees was five dudes in T-shirts and hipster beards at a backyard barbecue. 'No one but himself to blame': How Obama's Guantánamo plans fell through 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z My mental picture was of a small sinuous creature, with a gamine haircut and wide eyes like a lynx; someone who spoke in a dry whisper, if she spoke at all. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z In that mental picture, the orange-colored lights of my porch were like a lighthouse, guiding a lost sailor. Geologist reflects on life behind bars in China 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Take a good mental picture of Chambers Bay. Jason Day is the man for the moment on a course with few admirers 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z After all, the reader has an imagination, too, and merely to write the word “Bologna” or “Southend” or “42nd Street” will call up an image from the innumerable mental picture postcards we carry with us. David Nicholls: Google v old-fashioned legwork - how to research a novel 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The mental pictures were still there, horrible and horrifying. Ex-Clipper Shaun Livingston has rebuilt knee and career with Warriors 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The researchers suggest that avoidant actions are common across cultures and comforting even to those who are not superstitious because they help obscure the mental picture of the feared event. Good Luck Gestures Bring Peace of Mind 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z As the campers focus intently on the weight, they're asked to, "in their mind's eye," create a clear mental picture of the weight swinging in a pendulum fashion towards and away from them. Make The Turn Weekly Challenge Blog #45: Manifest The Future: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z “I will try to take a mental picture of every single moment that night so I can carry it in my heart for the rest of my life.” Some iconic Roxie Harts tell their stories 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Most of us paint mental pictures of happy stress-free days to be enjoyed in retirement. 4 Ways to Find Meaning in Retirement 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The mental picture activates and strengthens the very neural circuits—even subconscious ones that control automated processes like pupil dilation—that you will need to recruit when it is time to perform. Mental Rehearsals Strengthen Neural Circuits 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z "That one vivid mental picture affected her breathing and her muscular level, and helped her perform better." Olympian mind games the everyday exerciser can play 2014-02-17T09:10:41Z Next, the kids are asked to change their mental picture, this time imagining the weight swinging in a circular fashion around the numbers of massive clock. Make The Turn Weekly Challenge Blog #45: Manifest The Future: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z And trying to create that mental picture of your life, of what on earth is going to happen to you can crush you a little bit every day. Ellen Page’s coming out speech reminds us why movements matter 2014-02-16T17:57:00Z And Google conjures up images of primary-colored everything, as well as mental pictures of the company’s splash projects, such as the self-driving car. How Apple And Google Became The World's Best Brands 2013-10-16T18:07:00Z One problem with the word bubble is that it creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably. Speculative bubbles don't just pop – they may deflate and reflate 2013-07-19T08:57:26Z "It's hard to get a mental picture of what that looks like," he added. High speed impact on country park 2013-01-30T01:36:37Z Then they compare the real world government with this mental picture, and desperation ensues. Felipe Calderón on Mexico: An erupting volcano 2012-11-22T16:25:04Z He built a mental picture of a security device firm that was bringing protection and peace of mind to the world. Can you net present value optimism? 2012-10-08T16:12:38Z Quite simply, the figures suggest Britain's mental picture of its landscape is far removed from the reality. The great myth of urban Britain 2012-06-28T09:56:02Z I have a clear mental picture of Turing walking along the corridor of one of the huts at Bletchley park: middle height, clean shaven. 'I remember Alan Turing...' 2012-06-22T23:01:21Z If you want a mental picture, think of the flight maps you see in the back of airline magazines, except replace each city with a neuron and each flight by a connection between neurons. Sebastian Seung: you are your connectome 2012-06-09T23:04:02Z They paint mental pictures that are worth a thousand buzzwords. How to Tell a Great Story 2012-06-07T12:08:59Z Well in the foreground of the mental picture which arises when we hear the very word home, are children. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Hot tears filled her eyes, she writhed and twisted, she tossed and turned, as the mental pictures came and went; but nothing could drive him away. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Broderick had wondered once or twice since whence came that mental picture of Mrs. Balfame that rose clear-cut in his memory, in spite of his deliberate conviction of her guilt. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z When first looking over a new composition both hands should be employed, if possible, for this is necessary to obtain, approximately, at least, a mental picture of it. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z But, on the other hand, it is the concrete contemplation and mental picture of implicitly absolute spirit as the Ideal. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Direct discourse is used in the telling, and an effort is made to develop simple and vivid mental pictures. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z But in her mental picture of parental caregiving, she envisions the occasional break from responsibility and, especially, someone to commiserate with. The New Old Age Blog: Married to the Job 2012-02-29T19:26:10Z The Great Northern spread out in a quick mental picture like a map. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The whole subject is one which enlarges the faculty of making mental pictures, and this is one of the most useful forms of scientific education. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z Having formed a careful mental picture of the place, Dennis gave the word for return, and they reached their camping ground just before dark, as on the previous evening. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Even his stout English heart recoiled at the mental pictures his mind conjured up. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z They give a clearness to mental pictures which can be derived only through observation of that which the illustrations symbolize. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z The child must see the mental picture of the State in its relation to other States and parts of States, to lakes and rivers and mountains—a complex group of ideas. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z She restrained herself, however, drawing a faint solace of amusement from a mental picture of the resultant chaos, and somehow or another the day wore on to its close. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Oftentimes a mental picture of a page will recall a line which for an instant seems about to escape you. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z This phenomenon is analogous to that of number-forms,—a kind of diagrammatic mental picture which accompanies the conception of a progression of numbers. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z I realized sharply what I had missed, both in the way of detail—the detail most important to a mental picture and always missing—and in intimate understanding of Cuban affairs. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z It came back in another form—a series of mental pictures cruelly contrasting Shepherd’s Bush and the dispensary with Mourne Lodge. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z The second threat is in the unstable mental pictures used by Lower 99ers to understand their economic lives. Advice From the 1% Committee: Lever Up, Drop Out: Michael Lewis 2011-12-05T00:28:01Z His words, the ring in his young voice, called up a mental picture of a strong clear-cut face looking up at her in the uncertain light of a moonlit night in May. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z When you hear a new word, or read one, focus the mind upon it for a moment until you can retain a mental picture of its spelling and of its pronunciation. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z To realise the almost miraculous delicacy of these wonderful instruments we need first of all to construct a mental picture of what takes place in a circuit through which alternating current is passing. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z His mental picture of Helen and her desperate peril stimulated his reserve forces of mental and physical vigor. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z It had been on that night—— Suddenly her eyes closed, as if closed eyes could have shut out a mental picture. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z He chuckled as he conjured up a mental picture of the head director of the Pfieldorf Company handing over a substantial cheque. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z She had a quick mental picture of putting him in Deacon Pettigrew's Bible class. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Somehow, I make a different mental picture of you. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z They were good days, memorable days, giving them all mental pictures that even time would not blur nor age rub out. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z The first vision, however, of that many-sided city was almost bewilderingly different from the mental picture. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z With a mental picture of the map before his eyes, he outlined a highly imaginative route to the doctor. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z He took, with him to West Adams a mental picture of a strong, capable body in a shirt-waist and golf-skirt, fluffy yellow hair, smiling lips, laughing, honest, blue eyes. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z I had a mental picture of Frau Schlochauer, quiet in her grief, earnest, thoughtful, as she unfolded to me her plans for the future. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z A mental picture of a sunburnt face, flushed and absorbed in the game, of strong indolent hands fingering the cards, recurred persistently and prejudiced her against him. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Marshall, being only twelve miles beyond, was reached early in the evening, so that before dark I had time to get a mental picture of the place. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z But—Mr Musgrave blushed again as he recalled a mental picture of the girl in the overalls—she was such a pretty girl. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z The bend below the Northern Pacific bridge was one of the two or three places of which I seemed to have retained much of a mental picture from my previous run. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Their mental picture of the germ or beginning of an organism was an exceedingly reduced image of the organism, an image requiring for its development nothing but nutrition and growth. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z Her mental picture now gave her the entire view of Taylor as he had come toward her. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z To this class belong visions, dreams, distinct mental pictures presented under widely varying circumstances and conditions, in trance, in the hypnotic condition, in sleep, or directly conveyed to the primary conscious self. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z The mental picture which he had been tracing suddenly frayed and vanished like a dissolving view. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z My only mental picture of the site of Clark's shipyard was that received from the one hurried glance as I came to the upper rapid. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Subconsciously the player does something—it may be little or much—to imitate the movements in the mental picture that he saw. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Unfortunately, though, mental pictures could not be shared. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z The earliest idea of children about "myself" is a mental picture of the body. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z With the sudden disintegration of the mental picture he had been tracing, and the instant stoppage of the tense action of mind and body, Harry Sevier came to himself. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Hunt’s mental picture of his college friend, and 19 never had scholastic friendship been more astounding, could not include any great blemish of later-developed character. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z Tens of thousands of people are conscious of vivid mental pictures, for one who is able to reproduce them in such a form that they become vivid pictures to others. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z These mental pictures, depicting that which "should be," stuck in my mind and festered there. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Every time I heard a new variety I formed mental pictures of the men who probably made them. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z She remembered her father, and thought of how he would be troubled at her absence; and she recalled Hilton, Chumbley, the Reverend Arthur Rosebury, but only as subsidiary portraits in her mental picture. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z “His mental picture was this was a case ripe to be overturned,” Stebenne said. Not Ready to Change Baseball History? 2011-07-13T02:27:55Z Reader, there are mental pictures in the wilderness, as vivid as any in nature. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Eventually I found the picture at the start of this article, which has been helpful to many in providing a simple mental picture of the five interlocking principles of radical management. The Five Big Surprises of Radical Management 2011-07-08T12:52:33Z You are drawing all manner of glowing mental pictures of the bliss of a home illumined by her divine presence. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z And this is largely due to the fact that they are unable to form any mental picture of personality. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Not slim and willowy and pensive was she in my mental picture of her: I figure a matron of sterner stuff and solider build. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z The mental pictures faded away and all became blank. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z He must instantaneously form a mental picture of the ball’s course, then direct his swing to where he believes it will be. Magazine Preview: For Derek Jeter, on His 37th Birthday 2011-06-23T13:59:31Z It forms one of a number of strange mental pictures connected with that more than extraordinary time. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z At once a mental picture of Hazel Mallinsbee obscured the problem. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z The first glance, as they rushed out over the broken door, merely filled in the details of the vivid mental picture each had formed for himself. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z In the background of his mental picture Keyes recognized among the doting multitude the faces of about all of his acquaintances, some brought for the occasion from rather remote places. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z With superb, delicate touches she added to these mental pictures with the prolific imagery and exquisite mastery that only a vivacious, high-spirited girl can conjure. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Some persons, in rendering it, make it so subjective that they represent the woman as talking to a mental picture of her husband, rather than to his actual presence. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z I have still a mental picture that I can recall of him on the cliff. The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland 2011-04-30T02:00:12.447Z A mystic veil divided her reasoning powers from that terrible mental picture which glowed before her through the blood-red darkness. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The concrete symbols were ever before his eyes, and it was their mental pictures which took the place for him of abstract ideas. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Charles had a mental picture of his former companions tumbling, half undressed, into their berths in the dimly lighted cars. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Are you constantly trying to form mental pictures as you read? American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z Are you beginning to get a mental picture of the X-Altruist? Walking the Line Between Good and Evil: The Common Thread of Heroes and Villains 2011-03-31T16:15:00.267Z Miss Miller saw the disappointment on Nita’s face and remarked: “We joyfully accept this attempt to paint the cherished mental picture of Wickeecheokee Camp—a scene that defies all words or arts to describe.” The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z A mental picture of Bonny begging for water, and he too weak to fetch it, caused his eyes to fill with tears, and a black despair again enfolded him. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z But the reality here was beyond the most brilliant mental pictures ever painted. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Form mental pictures of the following: the "camp"; the furniture and the food of the backwoods people; and Abraham Lincoln's personal appearance. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z But we cannot conceive a line without breadth; we can form no mental picture of such a line: all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Example; One who imagines his neighbor's house burned down, and rejoices at the mental picture, though for interested reasons he does not wish any conflagration in the vicinity. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z "Seems to me you're drawing a long bow," and Bates almost smiled at the mental picture of two gay chorus girls committing the gruesome deed. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Naturally, in looking upon the contour of a country, we wish to consider its general features, that we may call up a mental picture of it. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Can you form a mental picture of their first dwellings? American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z Before, I loved to create a mental picture of Edinburgh, of its streets and courtyards. E-mail, tweet, Google 2011-02-09T14:51:46Z In vain she tried: her untrained vision and poor vocabulary could give him no new elements to weave into a mental picture. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z He had a faithful mental picture of the ill-favored fellow he had caught spying on Harry Ashley at Rockley Cove, and was sure he would recognize the rascal on sight. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z So real was the mental picture that he turned pale about the lips and abruptly left the window. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z When aging liberals and young progressives think longingly of Camelot and the Great Society, they usually have a mental picture of the Kennedy brothers. Sargent Shriver, 1915-2011: the Kennedy In-Law Who Was the Real Deal 2011-01-19T00:05:00Z Perhaps one might even conjure up a mental picture of the great days of pagan Rome, when these same decaying arches, columns and temples were monuments and buildings of wonderful beauty. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z A well finished piece gives to the child a complete mental picture of what she is undertaking, and acts as an inspiration; she will work quicker, easier, and better because of it. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z In one’s mental picture of a town there is almost always a single feature which stands out prominently at the expense of the others. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z It is not easy for us to conceive how Guugu Yimithirr speakers experience the world, with a crisscrossing of cardinal directions imposed on any mental picture and any piece of graphic memory. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z But I suppose the mental pictures of New York are nearer reality than those of any other city.” Queen Elizabeth to Visit Ground Zero on Tuesday 2010-07-05T02:10:00Z Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture" 2010-07-03T11:04:00Z Most of us who have been to school, even if it is a good while ago, keep sort of mental pictures of the hemispheres, and preserve the sound of certain old familiar names. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise This marked difference serves but to distinguish and accentuate the special charms of each, and together they make our memory of the cathedral a most precious possession of our mental picture gallery. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z I have carried with me, during all the months since that time, a mental picture of her as she stood there, in a pink morning frock of some sort. The Window at the White Cat When she returned home she immediately wrote down the mental picture she had seen. The Story of Our Hymns I want it very 206much, to make sure that my mental picture of you is right.” Where the Path Breaks At this instant, clasping her hands together in her lap, Nora Jamison sat staring straight ahead, but looking at nothing in the room, rather at some mental picture. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory At the mental picture she choked with hysterical laughter, then cringed suddenly against the sopping bark. The Valiants of Virginia This Conception of Health is not a mental picture of a particular thing; it is an understanding of health, and carries with it the idea of perfect functioning in every part and organ. The Science of Being Well A librarian, as a rule, is a wonderfully well-informed person; but her mental picture of Oregon was simply one large rainstorm. The Voice of the Pack It would be better for her to keep the friendly mental picture she had painted, rather than be disillusioned. Where the Path Breaks It was odd how often he recalled a mental picture of her, when they had met but once. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory He remembered the singular inner mental picture he had seen above the desert fire, and the pain within him seemed the forerunner of some tragedy that watched too close upon his life. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath So much as he could see of the shop inside accorded but little better with his mental picture of the place. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life He sees in his mental picture only the real, material image, and his only comprehension of the number is, "these objects are as many as the fingers on my hand." Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The mental picture of that young couple filled his whole being with a strange titillating warmth. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Such was the mental picture I had drawn of my young aunt. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Miss Jean prompted softly, in her eyes the expression of one who gazes upon a fair mental picture. The Land of Strong Men I can see her mental picture of you and Nat and myself standing in a police court pleading 'Guilty' to being caught in a melon patch. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School She still mechanically shuffled the cards; but her glance, as it rested on Asshlin, was unconscious and absorbed, seeing only its own mental pictures. The Gambler A Novel The very name crept upon him unawares as from the exquisite mental pictures he was always trying to suppress. The Cottage of Delight A Novel When, shutting our eyes, we frame a mental picture of such an object, such consciousness is called an image or representation. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It will be our endeavor to give the reader a mental picture of what is taking place during the time the ice is melting and the thermometer is stationary. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. It is made up of mental pictures of yourself in direful situations, and these mental pictures bring with them depressing emotions and muscular inhibitions. Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency The mental picture from our—costume—point of view is widely different from that of the last reign. English Costume His mental picture of the girl had never been more beautiful, desirable, or appealing. The Sphere of Sleep It is the old old story of trying to form mental pictures of that which no picture is adequate to comprehend. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Still, I’m given to drawing mental pictures, and this is one of them, that’s all. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion When you think of a home, what is the mental picture that rises before you, and why? Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency And of Henry himself, the great Tudor, greater, more farseeing than the eighth Henry, a man who so dominates the age, and fills it with his spirit, that no mental picture is complete without him. English Costume Of every extended object the adequate mental picture must have all the extension of the object itself. Essays in Radical Empiricism Let me try to draw you a mental picture, primate. Deepfreeze Perhaps to every person in that control room there came, as Chet's quiet, emotionless tones died away, the same mental picture; for there was the same dazed look on the countenances of all. Brood of the Dark Moon Another voice answered from the shoulder-box, bringing a second mental picture of a face—square and brown, black-browed and taciturnly humorless—that he had known and forgotten. Pet Farm Until such time it at least suffices as a mental picture around which the known facts group themselves. A Brief Account of Radio-activity He closed his eyes so as to be better able to get a mental picture of the pies awaiting him. A Yankee Flier in Italy Actually, an airplane is much bigger than that, so your mental picture of an airplane is all wrong. A Thought For Tomorrow One day, while attending communion service in the college chapel, she saw, as in a mental picture, the death-scene of Uncle Tom, afterward described in her celebrated book. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 "You've tackled a tough job," said McCarthy, grinning in spite of himself at the mental picture of his uncle receiving overtures in his behalf from Barney Baldwin, his bitterest enemy. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant He vastly preferred the latter, he hadn’t totally lost the inspiring mental picture of a glorious sacrifice; but he had come to the realization that it was more important to stay alive. The Bright Shawl What does a well-defined mental picture lead to in the child's mind? Training the Teacher Rosie had a mental picture of herself at that same future period, with golden hair and lovely clothes and heaps and heaps of beautiful jewels. The Rosie World And while he stood thus the woman leapt into the foreground of his mental picture. In the Brooding Wild Though a sacrifice be made cheerfully, there lingers always its ghost to draw mental pictures of “what might have been.” The Coming of the Law What mental pictures of his son's heroine did the old gentleman form, as he followed her on her now famous walk through that disreputable neighborhood? The Crow's Nest These mental pictures have been repeated so often, in connection with the muscular sense of exhilarating motion, that they have become permanently enregistered in brain-cell formation. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century The voice replied in its grim drawl: "Sorry, but we can't let you take mental pictures of us even to the other side." The Deaves Affair I had a momentary mental picture of him as some Roman staff-officer rushing back to the base in his chariot. Aliens “Every American man has a mental picture of his wife standing behind the door with a rolling-pin.” The So-called Human Race That was my mental picture as I sat and confronted you: I understand it all now; this is Lady Georgina Fawley!' Miss Cayley's Adventures Emily’s eyes closed as though they shied at some mental picture. The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys So he endeavored to give Doctor Middleton a mental picture of Thorpe, and prepare him for an interview that should temper justice with mercy, or at least, consideration. The Come Back He'd watched the ground through the electron telescope and he had a mental picture of the city from the sky. The Hate Disease He shut his eyes, and saw clearly a mental picture of the building. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Shall she display a silhouette or outline drawing of the object she desires the children to cut, or shall they work without any external guide to justify or modify the mental picture? Primary Handwork We know from his own words that, while composing, he generally had some mental picture before him. Music: An Art and a Language Which calls up the most pleasing mental pictures? Eighth Reader Why could he not have realised her mental picture of him: that glorified being with whom she had dwelt so long? The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 Gradually, he began to form a mental picture of a growing sympathy and affiliation between them, large with possibilities of improvement for Alleghenia. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel My only fear was that my mental picture was not brilliant enough; but this could easily be touched up on the spot. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Most people have a mental picture of the plains country as flat prairie, with sluggish, winding rivers. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Read them in such a manner as to call up a mental picture of the river on its way to the sea. Eighth Reader In other words, instead of seeing a world of matter, he was seeing only a mental picture of a world. Carmen Ariza Lawrence was painting a delightful mental picture of Claire as the ever-present fairy of his studio in some South American town, or perhaps in Paris. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author Preconceived opinions inevitably colour our mental picture of Christ. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It was a crowd that I shall always put beside other mental pictures of big crowds, in that gallery of clear vignettes of things impressive that make the memory. Westward with the Prince of Wales What mental pictures are called up by reading the fourth poem? the fifth? Eighth Reader No mental picture was too frightful or abhorrent for him to entertain as portraying a possible consequence of the loss of his journal. Carmen Ariza He had a clear mental picture of a sandy beach backed with trees. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author This mental picture made the trip over good roads and through villages of pretty homes seem like a pleasure ride. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Godwin had a clear mental picture of the gradual decay of authority towards the close of the period of transition; his vision of the earlier stages is less definite. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Imaginative, or pleasures derived from the contemplation of mental pictures. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications Do you still believe with the world that the passing of a stream of human thought, or a series of mental pictures, through your mentality constitutes real thinking? Carmen Ariza She had to convey her thoughts to us by means of mental pictures which told her story. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 He had a brief mental picture of a young man lying in the shambles of Berlin calling out the same words. Decision It was no trouble to frame a mental picture of Dad’s inamorata. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek It laid before him a mental picture of his present manhood which somehow nauseated him. The Twins of Suffering Creek Again through her mental picture moved the figures of two men and one woman, the characters who went to make up the cast of her wretched drama. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills And remember, she won’t be able to communicate with us by words––we’ll have to get her to convey her thoughts by means of mental pictures. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 He took them all, because he had a swift mental picture of the schoolhouse floor which would need much scrubbing before it would be clean. Rim o' the World The President had a mental picture of just what such a town of fifteen thousand would look like, and he wished himself back in the White House. In a Little Town Sunny’s outburst of feeling had struck home, and each man stood staring thoughtfully at the mental picture he had conjured for them. The Twins of Suffering Creek The plump face was adorned with the conventional "mutton-chop" whiskers which are so generally associated in one's mental picture of bankers, bishops and reformers. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Form, then, the habit of making for brief instants a mental picture of the Saviour. The Romance of the Soul He strode off along the Hornalby road, whistling a lively tune, and conjuring up bright mental pictures of the life before him. Soldiers of the Queen Yet he managed, in spite of ghastly mental pictures of June being torn to pieces by her attackers, to keep his hands steady. The End of Time He was gazing on a mental picture of Jessie as he considered she must have looked when writing that letter. The Twins of Suffering Creek The mental picture almost made me laugh, disgusted as I was. The Death-Traps of FX-31 Almost against his will, he found himself repeating them, and with them came a mental picture of Lalage's pitiful shame and grief when the real meaning of what she had done came home to her. People of Position Multiply that shoreline by the vast area which had housed the Gens of Dalis, and the mental picture is almost too big to grasp. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The corporal in the inhospitable third-class of the Verdun train made mental pictures of Vinson's progress south. A Nest of Spies His vast reading and his portentous memory enabled him to create whole galleries of mental pictures of the past, and his vigorous style embodies his visions with admirable precision and sharpness of outline. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice These latter actions and words were not in such complete harmony with Count Andrea's mental picture of the lady on the other side of the barricade. Captain Dieppe A mountain, as a mass of a certain size, contour, color, etc., is an objective fact; the impression our mind receives, the mental picture it forms of the mountain, is subjective. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Becomes absorbed in his own mental pictures as he speaks. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts “I shall never dare to go to sleep again!” shivered Fauvette, appalled at the mental picture presented to her. The Madcap of the School He tried to grasp a mental picture of Mary Burns, who had never stirred in him the emotion that this smiling picture invoked. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 But in spite of this possibility, his mental picture of her still remained that of the little Indian girl he had confided to the care of the good Sisters of Saint Ursula six years before. When Dreams Come True All sorts of ideas present themselves; we entertain them for a moment, then dismiss them and turn our attention to some other mental picture which suits our purpose better. Introduction to the Science of Sociology If they have false ideas, if they have little or no scientific knowledge, if their thoughts are filled with wrong mental pictures, they will not know how to talk wisely and beneficially. What a Young Woman Ought to Know If this were Lord Henry, the mental picture she had formed of him had evidently been very far from the truth; nor had Denis Malster's description of him been even fair. Too Old for Dolls A Novel So far as you and your actual knowledge are concerned, nothing exists in substance and reality outside your mental picture of it. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Now, there's enough descriptive colour to give you a proper mental picture. The Gay Rebellion The mental picture of him being driven from The Dale through her act rose up before his daughter, and choked her utterance. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Then, unless satisfied that he desires no change, he creates one or more images of future conditions, i.e., mental pictures of new situations, which will also be suitable to this end. Sound Military Decision He made to Will a mental picture of one of Cromwell's Ironsides, or of the early New England Puritans, and his Biblical language and allusions heightened the impression. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Your environment, so far as it affects your judgment and your conduct, is made up, not of physical realities, but of mental pictures. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency But we can not conceive a line without breadth; we can form no mental picture of such a line: all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive But though he was gone, Clarissa sat gloating upon the mental picture of his manly beauty. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Before the commander can decide whether he wishes to maintain the existing situation or to change it, he requires a mental picture of its salient features. Sound Military Decision When you read a book, you form mental pictures of its characters, and are generally discontented with those that confront you on the stage. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 He laughed aloud, so absorbed in the mental picture of her chagrin, that he collided with a dapper young man in a dinner jacket at that moment about to enter Thérèse's sitting-room. Juggernaut The poet, Mr. Clarence Hawkes, has been blind since childhood; yet he finds in nature hints of combinations for his mental pictures. The World I Live In Thus a mental picture of some new and unknown piece of machinery would mean nothing to an unmechanical mind, or even to a mechanical mind which was not endowed also with the inventive faculty. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Such people—still to be met with—have one mental picture, and one only, of the flight of an aeroplane. Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners A mental picture of Miss Kingsbury arose before him, and it was in vain that he sought to consider her and her kind without rancour. The Orchard of Tears It corresponded in every respect to the mental picture which I had drawn of a Bornean town. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Berrington had a quick mental picture of where different objects were—and he made a dash for the switch. The Slave of Silence A mental picture of her tiny, delicate, fragile-looking aunt engaged in that strenuous and illicit operation brought a momentary smile to Mary Thorne’s lips. Shoe-Bar Stratton Abyssinia and back again, but somewhere or other in people's vague mental picture of the East it was sure to occur. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest The world was very fair to look upon; but for some odd reason a mental picture of Damascus seen from the Lebanon Mountains arose before him. The Orchard of Tears Now do not draw a mental picture of a sanctimonious person with a Prince Albert coat, a white bow tie and a prominent Adam's apple. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Duncan liked to talk about himself; he had been talking about himself all the time that Sheila had sat beside him reviewing the mental picture. The Trail to Yesterday On the other side of her was an individual in a civic chain, whose fat, pursy, apoplectic appearance, and nose of the colour of an Orleans plum, thoroughly realised my mental picture of the Bailie. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Jim thought of the welfare of his only good trousers, and saw that Hans’ suggestion was good; but a mental picture of himself with shoes in hand and bare legs restrained him. The Brown Mouse A mental picture of Emma, demure and pretty, came before her. Across the Mesa The rage in him was deep and malignant as he coupled the mental pictures of his imagination with the material record of Rosalind’s movements with his rival, as related by Agatha. 'Firebrand' Trevison No one denies that the exchange or forcible expression of ideas, percepts, mental pictures, or concepts, is suggestive. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology The psychic process of picture-production is involuntary and unconscious, but the perception of the mental pictures is a perfectly conscious process and involves the exercise of an introspective faculty. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance He has drawn for himself mental pictures of Mary Lowther till he has invested her with every charm and grace and virtue that can adorn a woman. The Vicar of Bullhampton A mental picture rose before him of their thin faces, turned-up noses, and prominent teeth, with their sharp sarcastic tongues as an additional horror. The Unknown Wrestler It pleased him to see his enemy writhe and squirm before him; the grimness came because of a mental picture, in his mind at this minute, of Trevison confiding in the girl. 'Firebrand' Trevison It is like saying, all mental pictures are composite; the elements of many kinds coming from many sources. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Yet until Miss Tibbutt had introduced the subject, she had been more or less unaware of these mental pictures. Antony Gray,—Gardener She closed her eyes and conjured a mental picture of the little valley, of the rock wall, and of the cleft that would mark the location. The Gold Girl In the hopelessness of her thought her mental pictures of Dunham were always mortifying. The Opened Shutters He considered the mental picture his imagination had conjured up. The Long Trick Hayden had a swift, mental picture of that grim old pirate of finance, as represented by his portraits and photographs, his shrewd, rugged old face surrounded by Horace Greeley whiskers. The Silver Butterfly She saw a mental picture of Kara’s small room on the top floor of the Gray House. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest That is to say, James Mill may have described accurately a part of the process by which the mental picture is constructed, but has omitted to explain the action of the mind itself. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The mental picture he drew further increased his terror, and he began to mutter incoherent blasphemies 247 as he raced his horse at a breakneck pace toward the Cache. 'Drag' Harlan Oh, no, but I have quite a different mental picture of her. Little Lost Sister The whole mental picture of the group was portrayed before him. The Silver Butterfly I can see a mental picture that is very wonderful.” The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest Tarlac had a sudden mental picture of a Traiti trading war stories and combat techniques with one of the small dark-skinned blonds—and it seemed more an inevitable picture than an odd one. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel And as he rode at the head of his men he drew mental pictures that broadened his grin and brought into his eyes an abysmal gleam. 'Drag' Harlan “I don’t know the girl,” said the mill-owner, “but her announcement gives me a fairly good mental picture of her.” Little Lost Sister Since that mental picture you had of me curled up in your lap. A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel It was impossible to slight the mental picture of Mollie with maroon drapery falling about her feet, with her cheeks tinted with excited color, and with that marvel of delight in her eyes. Vagabondia 1884 Either the whole poem or a sufficiently long quotation has been inserted to give the child a complete mental picture. Graded Memory Selections He frowned slightly, drawing a mental picture of the girl inside, yielding to the terror that had seized her. 'Drag' Harlan “Benchers’ Inn,” said Guest sharply as the footman closed the carriage door, and the trio sat in silence, each forming a mental picture of that which they were going to see. Witness to the Deed And only by action could he blot out the haunting mental picture of Kaydessa once more drawn into the bondage she so hated. The Defiant Agents Scarcely a day passed without his drawing a mental picture of the room which was to be their parlor, and of the fireside Dolly was to adorn. Vagabondia 1884 Nothing else is so easy to memorise as a Correlation, for a Correlation is not a “mental picture” or “story”—it is neither a proposition, sentence or phrase. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget Into his thoughts at this minute flashed a mental picture that paled his face and brought his lips into straight, hard lines—a picture of Barbara at the mercy of Deveny. 'Drag' Harlan At first these impressions may be somewhat disconnected and more 87or less confused, but before long there will be noticed a clearing away of the scene, and the mental picture will become quite plain. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers He has made his mental picture of an incurable disease; and so he is helping the material result to accomplish itself. Three Things Instantly she forgot the girls and their fun and saw for one fleeting moment a series of quickly moving mental pictures. Molly Brown's Senior Days David, as he trudged sorrowfully homeward across the fields, carried with him the mental picture of a plump, sonsy woman, in a trim dress of plum-coloured homespun and ruffled blue-check apron, haloed by candlelight. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 For one thing, wherever he looked he saw the mental picture of his neighbour's tired, sweet face and the tears in her blue eyes. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 This gives you a mental picture of the process. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers He will be aiding that condition; he will be making himself the pole in tune to receive the answering vibrations of his mental picture. Three Things There arose in his mind a mental picture of a man swinging in an underground kitchen, and in spite of his self-control he shuddered. Jack O' Judgment Terrence Elshawe did not conform to the mental picture that pops into the average person's mind when he hears the words "news reporter." By Proxy Up to the time that he heard the far-off sound of their automobile struggling up the long hill, he had made no mental picture of his employers. The Snowshoe Trail I had a mental picture of some beautiful quilts I knew of hung against a wall somewhere for people to come and look at and wonder over. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them If now we apply this simile to the atomic and molecular world, we shall be able to form a mental picture as to what takes place in radiation and absorption. Aether and Gravitation A youth with a high collar, loud necktie, checked suit, and patent-leather shoes, dangling a cane, smoking a cigarette, and loitering impudently on a street corner was their mental picture of an educated Negro. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization You speak of "living powers," "percipient or perceiving powers," and "ourselves;" but can you form a mental picture of any of these, apart from the organism through which it is supposed to act? Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And as the early mental pictures crowded into his brain he whined joyously and turned unerringly in the direction of the windfall. The Black Phantom But, perhaps, the repetition of this did not serve to blot out a certain mental picture. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado In conclusion on this point, viz. that light is a mode of aetherial motion, let us endeavour to form a mental picture of our atomic and aetherial world. Aether and Gravitation "Trees," I objected, with a mental picture of him bursting into the nearest house and demanding entrance to the roof. Greener Than You Think But in that moment she took a mental picture of the boy that she was not likely to forget. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall The living woman was no longer the figure in the mental picture. The Root of Evil Jenny's sense of the humorous prevailed over her troubles at this juncture and made her laugh at the contemplation of that mental picture. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Let us therefore endeavour to form a mental picture of this aetherial wave motion with its transverse vibrations. Aether and Gravitation Arethusa's mental picture of her father had been very clear. The Heart of Arethusa The entries in his diaries of this period are intermittent, concise, and brief—naturally enough, since the central figure of Julius's mental picture had ceased, happily for him, to be himself. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Nan had drawn a vivid mental picture of the governess, which through her persistence in repetition, had begun to seem an actual description to herself and Delia. The Governess She tried to rearrange a mental picture which the other was continually destroying. The Squirrel-Cage It is now for us to endeavour to form a mental picture as to how this is done. Aether and Gravitation Her busy grey eyes had failed to find anyone among those menfolks just around the train who at all resembled her mental picture of her father. The Heart of Arethusa If you doubt this, just create a mental picture of yourself in the last stages of a shampoo! The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture The process of transferring a mental picture to the medium may be attended with all kinds of difficulties of which we know nothing. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal He preferred cigars, a habit he'd acquired from the days when he'd filched them from his father's cigar case, but his mental picture of the fearless and alert young FBI agent didn't include a cigar. That Sweet Little Old Lady Ben smiled at the mental picture of Billie brandishing a carving knife. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp These mental pictures were almost real to him, and he enjoyed them while they lasted, though he knew that they were not real. The Music Master Novelized from the Play Every thought tends to reproduce itself, and ghastly mental pictures of disease, sensuality, and vice of all sorts, produce scrofula and leprosy in the soul, which reproduces them in the body. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty An intense effort is made to impress upon the plate, by an act of will, a mental picture or image held in the mind. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal When a man comes in for a suit of clothes he usually has some sort of a mental picture of the thing he desires. Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks I mean that one has one's self no mental picture corresponding to the mental picture which one's personality leaves in the minds of one's friends. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women His thoughts rushed him along pell-mell now and he followed them, thoroughly enjoying the mental pictures they brought up. The Music Master Novelized from the Play Harpe,"—she sniggered at a mental picture—"how will you look anyhow hanging to a man's arm? The Lady Doc The encouraging words acted as the stimulant of a hypodermic in sluggish veins, eyes brightening and cheeks flushing at the mental pictures conjured up by the prospect of getting their money back. The Fighting Shepherdess He will hold to this mental picture and measure everything you show him by it—much to your disadvantage. Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks There was a Mrs Maplestone, and I had drawn a mental picture of her, which I felt sure was true to life. The Lady of the Basement Flat He had read very little fiction, and such mental pictures as he had evolved were drawn from his inner consciousness. The Ffolliots of Redmarley She tried to draw a mental picture of herself, to account for his preference for her, and failed to find any reason for it. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden He turns a knob that alters the arrangement of lights and shadows, and when, by chance, the design corresponds to his mental picture—presto! The Worlds of If All books using the visual-imagery technique tell you to paint a vivid, mental picture of the material things you wish to acquire, if it is a case of material wealth. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis What lines in stanzas i and iv call up a mental picture of the flag? The Ontario High School Reader Fearing that I was over-exciting her, I sat close to her and drew as best I could a mental picture of Jim. 32 Caliber Then he remembered the mental picture of the tramps on the park benches and stubbornly refused to yield. Fair Harbor But when we speak of "Marxism," what mental picture does the word suggest, what intellectual concept is the word a name for? Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Harbours, villages, buildings, will be familiar to him through some old print or coloured engraving; and he will eagerly compare the actual appearance with the mental picture he has borne for so long. The Book-Hunter at Home In order to give time to make these mental pictures, we naturally pause after each one. The Ontario High School Reader It recombines these elements into new and original mental pictures, the creations of the inventive mind. Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Turning from one to another of these accidental illustrations, we by degrees create a mental picture which is not without its peculiar charm. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore But his mental picture of a fearless and alert young FBI agent didn't include a cigar. Brain Twister This ability to call up mental pictures is yet another of the compensations, and these pictures never fade, but come, when familiar scenes or objects are suggested. Five Lectures on Blindness In the extract from The Glove and the Lions, used above to illustrate pause, the mental pictures and important ideas are suggested in nearly every ease by a single word. The Ontario High School Reader Or is your mental picture blurred and doubtful? Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency The Grand Mognac frequently interrupted him and caused him to amplify in detail some of the mental pictures and at times turned to Turgan and requested him to picture the same events. Giants on the Earth The thoughts and mental pictures of that broken man parting with his baby son seventeen years before made me most unhappy. The Black Wolf Pack Before his mental eyes rose mental pictures of the events in his father's life: deeds of dishonor unregretted, that ate poisonously into Ivan's sensitive intelligence. The Genius Consequently, he does not dwell on words that are full of meaning, nor pause before and after words and phrases to make the mental picture and to grasp the thought more fully. The Ontario High School Reader Visual Imagery When we speak of “images” in connection with Imagination and Recognition we do not refer merely to mental pictures of things seen. Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Their sense of humor was curiously akin, and Blue Bonnet knew, without being told, what mental picture filled Alec's mind. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party The Idea of a Movement The mental picture of a purposed movement is simple and direct. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern The curate, confounded by the hideous mental picture that he had evoked, was floundering helplessly. The Brentons And when we recall the victories of the people in our own Motherland across the sea, do we not have at once a mental picture of the "Grand Old Man," William Ewart Gladstone? On the Firing Line in Education Indeed, the term “image” is perhaps unfortunately used in this way, since it must be made to include not only mental pictures in a visual sense, but all forms of reproductive mental activity. Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency One of the sweetest of the mental pictures that he painted that morning with unwonted facility, was that of Minnie sitting at his mother’s feet, comforting her with the words of the Bible. The Lighthouse He smiled wistfully as he conjured a mental picture of her. Every Man for Himself "Good night," she muttered with a vanishing mental picture of their lovely preparations the day previous. Prudence Says So Its mental pictures, its concepts, its beliefs, come out of it, and are marred, misshapen, untrue, just to the extent to which that is faulty. On the Firing Line in Education The prosaic life and surroundings of the slum child are sufficiently deadening, and the new mental pictures thus given are in the nature of windows opening on new vistas of life. Spirit and Music He had formed no very definite mental picture of his cousin beforehand. Priscilla's Spies In addition to the mental picturing, they kept constantly before them the physical picture of the crucified Christ, which made their mental picture all the more vivid and concentrated. Pushing to the Front "I am glad to see you," she said gracefully, "though I can only pray you won't carry a mental picture of me very long." Prudence Says So Billy considered for a moment or two, evidently conjuring up a mental picture. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn In the case of sight-singing, the mental picture has to be immediately translated into action, it is the essence of the proceeding. Spirit and Music But it was not the question of a man hoping for the destruction of his enemies' cities; Arcot got the mental picture of the city, but with it, he picked up the idea of "home"! Islands of Space Your own mental picture of yourself is a good measure of yourself and your possibilities. Pushing to the Front Millions of different personalities are merged in one mental picture. By the Christmas Fire Geraldine came out of her apprehensive mental pictures with a sigh, and rose. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Had she insisted that the dance should be played more quickly, she might have spoiled the child's mental picture and destroyed her interest in the piece. Spirit and Music Is effort made to get each pupil to develop a mental picture of the scene represented by the details? A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation But Drew knew that Hunt Rennie was not seeing either man or horse, but a mental picture which was not too pleasing. Rebel Spurs This exercise necessitates a mental picture of the finished product. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations The difference is a difference of vision or mental picture as to this mighty All which is One. A Short History of Greek Philosophy And as he looked he made a mental picture of the act of creeping up behind this man, of lifting his weapon, finally of striking. The Seventh Noon Formulate a mental picture of the events or scenes. A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation Naturally he can only make mental pictures, guesses or hypotheses, which he tries to fit to the facts, and discards when they will not fit. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told You may have a mental picture of the structure in your mind, but when asked to explain it you are lost. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations A mental picture of the sheikhs taking joy-rides in automobiles de luxe presented itself to Mr. Hogge, who gave notice that he should "reduce" the Army Estimates by the price of the chassis. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 You have a mental picture of the ranching business; horses, cattle, cowboys, knee-deep grass billowing through the great open spaces. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Those of my readers whose love of home, kindred, traditions, ideals—patriotism—belong to other countries can draw a mental picture of what a similar experience would mean to them. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service The mental picture of Elsa would remain as one that had attracted him on the wall of his German memories. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The carpenter, above all others, must be able to carry a mental picture of his product. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations The mental picture I saw of myself—a vague young woman, seated in an automobile stranded by the roadside, trying to lure away the dog of a strange man—was disconcerting. Everyman's Land I tried to call up a mental picture of the little toy-seller. The Door Through Space The attraction might have vanished, as he said to himself, but the mental picture of it was yet vivid. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) But he was mistaken, doubly mistaken, since the mental picture he had formed of Hermione Beauregard Grandison was utterly falsified by the slight, elegant, girlish figure which presented itself before his astonished eyes. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York These were the days when my stamps had formed for me mental pictures—more or less accurate—of each country from Angola to Zululand, its history, climate, scenery, inhabitants, and rulers. The Joyful Heart This principle of the type, as illustrating both the particular and general, is true also of geographical topics that lead a child far from home and call for the construction of mental pictures. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart With closed eyes, Ross produced a mental picture of the control cabin. Key Out of Time A series of mental pictures, a startling jumble of ideas—trivial as the wish to save the clothes from a wetting, tremendous as the near prospect of eternity—danced through her brain with bewildering clearness. The Captain of the Kansas But the method of these Gnostics in constructing their mental picture of the world and its history, was still an uncertain one. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Hence, the eye must be trained unless the firer has at all times a mental picture of how the sights and the bull's-eye look when properly aligned. The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training This tone concept, or mental picture of tone qualities controls the vocal instrument by indirection. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing That word calls up a mental picture of stern virtues assailed on every side and standing like a rock in a storm. Branded He stared uncomprehendingly at the steep sides of the gully; they had no place in his gallery of mental pictures. The Lost Valley Action in turn quickens the mental process, and the mental picture becomes more vivid. Resonance in Singing and Speaking He had a vivid mental picture of the rocket shape, its once silvery sides dulled by exposure, canted crookedly amid trees. Star Hunter Of the meeting between father and son we prefer to let each reader draw his own mental picture. The Border Boys Across the Frontier A girl with fluffy brown hair and mocking eyes had been the center of many mental pictures that had haunted him. The Two-Gun Man If they could paint the leaf and flower, well and good; but ask each separately to communicate to you in words a mental picture of that plant. Platform Monologues The beginner and the confirmed bungler alike fail in this prime essential—they do not make this mental picture of tone before singing it. Resonance in Singing and Speaking The four years had changed her, yet she seemed to Jason more beautiful than his mental picture of her had been. Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love It is perfectly possible to have the idea of an event A, and of the events B, C, D, which came between it and the present state E, as mere mental pictures. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) He was radically different to the mental picture she had formed of the financier. Swirling Waters His mental picture of her was pale compared with the glowing reality, for she seemed to have brought with her all the warmth and colour of the south. The Mayor of Warwick A mental picture of the envelope arose before him, the number, 30, written upon it and the two black seals securing the lapels. The Golden Scorpion The first task of the student who would become a naturalist is to take his knowledge from the thing, and to remember it by the mental picture of the thing. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Mr. Gibney had a swift mental picture of such a proceeding and chuckled happily. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Finally by focusing these upon this strange object, he formed an idea, or mental picture, which gave him a reasonable control over the new vague presentation. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education It is well named; the very name evokes a mental picture of the insect. Social Life in the Insect World A mental picture of the envelope arose before him, the number, 30, written upon it and the two black seals securing the lapels. The Golden Scorpion But I was very young then, and I do not make out a clear mental picture of Reuben Nichols. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua 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. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates If the teacher describes the object as a fruit, fragrant, yellow, fleshy, and pear-shaped, the mental picture of the pupil is likely to be much more definite. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education The mental picture appeared to afford him satisfaction, for he resumed after a moment. The Miller Of Old Church Countless times I blotted out that mental picture with a sweep of common sense. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The mental picture which she had formed of Martha Wallingford, the young literary star, seemed to undergo a transformation akin to an explosion, out of which only one feature remained intact—the book, “Hearts Astray.” The Butterfly House She had very clear mental pictures of everything she touched or felt, everything that came within the scope of her understanding,—which covered no narrow field. The Hidden Places In fact it sometimes happens that he makes very little use of his imagination, his mental picture of the real object differing little from the model placed before him. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education "Do you milk?" he asked, charmed by the mental picture of so noble a dairymaid. The Miller Of Old Church His mental picture was decomposed by the repeated waving of the famous shawl, which only came into view as Berenice turned. Visionaries My wife and I used to "hold the thought," "make the mental picture," and "go into the silence." From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Note all the details of the mental picture. The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Don't expect any place to have all the requirements included in your mental picture. If You're Going to Live in the Country I think that we both had mental pictures of some of the women whom we knew in that costume. The Jamesons Of these, rather than of its stockyards and its lightning rapidity in pig-sticking, will the visitor who wishes to think well of Chicago carry off a mental picture. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin We invariably form a mental picture of every unknown person of whom we think at all. David Harum A Story of American Life Far the greater part of your successive states of consciousness, or even of your ordinary "thinking," commonly so-called, consists of trains of mental pictures "suggested" one by another. The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency He offers few opinions of his own at this interview but rather tries to read his client's mind so that preliminary sketches and plans will approximate that mental picture. If You're Going to Live in the Country He kept Venning's thoughts off the mental picture of the charging lion until dawn, when all hands prepared for the hunt. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The conditions of life, the food, the clothing, the houses, the modes of travel, and the dangers must all come into the mental picture. The Vitalized School But frequently the resultant mental picture is a misleading one, sometimes even vicious in its moral effect. Religious Education in the Family What fullness of detail there must have been in the mental pictures he was able to conjure of St. Louis embarking here on his two crusades? Foch the Man A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies In fact, if some old house seems to you to call for drastic reconstruction, you would do better to let it alone and look for one that more nearly fits your mental picture. If You're Going to Live in the Country They had become tragic, strained, as though the man was striving to blot out mental pictures that were detailed there—pictures that memory persisted in drawing. The Trail Horde Just what you do in any particular case depends upon what mental picture is strongest, is most vivid in consciousness, and thus able to overcome all contrary tendencies. Initiative Psychic Energy Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency To get a mental picture of the situation you must imagine warships lying in the East River firing over Manhattan Island in an attempt to reduce fortifications on the Hudson. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean The problem is to give the language more meaning, to ensure that the words give mental pictures and ideas; in short, to turn the abstract into concrete facts. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History She does not pose to herself as a heroine, but she dwells affectionately on ingenuous mental pictures of what Lord Walderhurst will say. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" With it he toyed, looking neither to the right nor to the left, nor yet to the front; but rather at the mental picture of one engrossed in thought. Beatrix of Clare In looking back over my life, the impressions which come most vividly to my mind are mental pictures of my old associates. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events |
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