better thoughts

Example Sentences

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“I have better thoughts of those alligators now that I’ve seen them at home,” he wrote.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

We have to shift onto a more positive conversational track to start generating better thoughts.

From Time • Sep. 11, 2015

He watches my lips, and I let my words trickle out as softly as his...on the influx of better thoughts.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Had you not brought the king to better thoughts when already the whole negociation threatened to miscarry, I should never have arrived where I am to-day.'

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)

The voice of true affection for a moment touched my heart; but I remembered that the words of kindness had soothed only to deceive; and stern recollection of my wrongs steeled me against better thoughts.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary