turn of mind
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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
All this suggests that someone in the kitchen has a literary turn of mind.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021
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
Being of taxonomical turn of mind, Edwards also organizes his many titles by kind rather than chronology, usually settling on three to five works to represent various categories.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017
I am still of the same turn of mind, although I have, since that time, had many teachers.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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