184 adjectives to describe thinking

Then with a last glance at the tower I made my way as quickly as possible to the hotel in a state of nerves which you may imagine, little thinking that my descent from the tower had been witnessed.

Their service to subsequent criticism has been so great and their critical thinking on the whole so sound that it may seem ungracious to call attention to a few cases where they were unable to shake themselves entirely free from the mediaeval tradition of classical rhetoric.

" This was extraordinarily straight-from-the-shoulder thinking but all the way out to the scene of the festivities she pondered quietly.

I've been lying awake thinking it over all night, and I guess the best thing is to send the poor little wretch home.

SEE Richtmeyer, Cleon C. Test of functional thinking in mathematics.

Self-control is the goal of discipline, but independent thinking, enthusiasm and initiative are all included in the term.

For constructive thinking we must go to the other great leader of French thought, Rousseau, who contributed to the growth of freedom in a different way.

"I drank nothing; I was too busy thinking.

BUERMEYER, LAWRENCE An introduction to reflective thinking. R80676.

SEE BACON, E. K. BENNETT, GEORGE K. Test of productive thinking.

The arguments on the side of acquittal are obvious and strong:the inevitable coincidences of contemporary thinking; and our continual experience of finding notions turning up in our minds without any label on them to tell us whence they came; so that if we are in the habit of expecting much from our own capacity we accept them at once as a new inspiration.

Habits of correct thinking are the chief result of correct note-taking.

Phr. nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful thinking; unshakable conviction; my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts.

But in a Government office, as certainly as in a law-court or a laboratory, effective thinking will not be done unless adequate opportunities and motives are secured by organisation during the whole working life of the appointed officials.

They store the fruits of abstract thinking, mathematics, for example.

Grim's authority is always at its height on the outbound trail, for then everybody knows that success, and even safety, depends on his swift thinking; on the way home afterward reaction sets in sometimes, because Arabs are made light-headed by success, and it isn't a simple matter to discipline free men when you have no obvious hold over them.

Contemplation enlarges the mental system for advanced constructive thinking.

That they did not notice me in my hiding-place is evident from the fact that they passed on the other side of the street, and doubtless thinking that they had missed me, commenced to run.

At this period he was still looked up to with reverence as a great intellectual giant; but that love for him which had been felt by those who were aroused to honest thinking by his earlier writings had passed away.

I am sure he does not for an instant think of me in that light.

Of the former kind are violent exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a heated atmosphere or the hot bath; of the latter, the direct application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other narcotic substances.

I stopped where I was and did a little bit of rapid thinking.

"As for me," said Bandy-legs, who had been doing considerable thinking while all this talk went on, "I mean to try and hunt up a few of those bouncer frogs Roland here says inhabit his marsh.

For the notion of a really ('materially') true judgment which someone has chosen, made, and tested, there is substituted that of a formally valid proposition, and in the end Logic gets so involved in the study of 'validity' that it puts aside altogether all real tests of truth, and becomes a game with verbal symbols which is entirely irrelevant to scientific thinking.

It prefers to leave them in ignorance and the easy prey of Bolshevik charlatanism rather than allow free play for intelligent thinking.

184 adjectives to describe  thinking