turn of mind

Example Sentences

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The truth is that if Macbeth had even a fraction of Hamlet’s philosophical turn of mind he never would have killed the king.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024

It would take a sudden, pervasive and desperately pessimistic turn of mind.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

But only a few have the turn of mind to confront head-on the structural obstacles that stand in their way.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2020

This late in the 19th century, it’s appropriate that a man like Arthur Morgan, of a countercultural turn of mind, would harbor personal animosity toward the post-Homestead Pinkertons.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White