frame of mind

Example Sentences

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The stiff-upper-lip approach does come to seem as much about the skaters’ frame of mind as it does public perception about their good-sportsmanship and character.

From The Wall Street Journal

That when in the right frame of mind, the listener can tune in to the spiritual messages stones are sending.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Osborne added: "He was still in the right frame of mind, he could have stopped the car, he could have done all the correct procedures that a normal-thinking person would have done."

From BBC

"It has to be a given, because if you don't show up with that frame of mind you're on the backward step straight away," he added.

From BBC

“First I shall review, say, ten or twelve more speeches of Cicero’s, to put me in the right frame of mind.”

From Literature