125 examples of mentalities in sentences

In 1850, Curling, an English pathologist, studying the cretinous idiots of Salzburg, written about centuries before by Paracelsus, discovered that with their defective brain and mentality there was associated an absence of the thyroid body, and accompanying symmetrical swellings of fat tissue at the sides of the neck.

Persons in whose make-up it rules are more liable to imagine disturbances of their mentality, or exhibit a well-developed imaginative streak.

Deterioration of mentality and character so often observed during the menopause, with its apathies or excitements, melancholia or mania, the fits of weeping or gaiety, the loss of grip upon reality, the complete change in mood and temperament that reflect the transformation of the organic outlook, demonstrate clearly the overwhelming influence of the endocrines upon the attitudes of the self toward the self.

It is the opinion of a number of psychologists that it is inherited as what the Mendelians call a recessive, that is as a trait which will be overshadowed, if there is admixture of normal mentality, but will crop up by breeding with another mental defective.

To stand for that and then talk of democracy and idealismoh, it shows no mentality, for one thing.

Now these two remarkable products of the new mentality of a social force were facts, but they needed an intellectual or philosophical justification just as a low-born profiteer, when he has acquired a certain amount of money, needs an expensive club or a coat of arms to regularize his status.

Another advantage of cramming is that at such a time, one usually works at a high plane of efficiency; the task of reviewing in a few hours the work of an entire course is so huge that the attention is closely concentrated, impressions are made vividly, and the entire mentality is tuned up so that facts are well impressed, coordinated and retained.

The exposure of that delusion merely crystallized into a definite shape her vague suspicions concerning his mentality.

The difference in our mentality was never so well illustrated as in the songs of the two people.

If an ordinarily intelligent Englishman, with a fair knowledge of English history and a grasp of the traditions and mentality of his countrymen, cannot carry on, how are people miles away, with no opportunity to visualise the actual situation, to instruct him?

To an alert and active mentality routine work becomes drudgery, while to the opposite type, mental work is annoying.

Permitted pain!the first and last Of riddles that we strive to solve, More poignant ever, and more vast, As man's mentalities evolve, I hear thy victims' ceaseless wails, I view the path my race hath trod, And at the sight my spirit quails, And cries in agony to God!

Fool hens, the woodsman called them, and the motley and mark of their weak mentality were a red badge near the eye.

" Bringing his mentality down to the level of this simple-minded man, he enjoyed tracing out for him a plan of living.

Not the spurt of physical prowess, but of indomitable mentality.

He will, I imagine, hardly contract the Frenchman's sort, which is so largely on his lips, and in his mentality, and has given the race the most mobile faces in the world.

The pinched look, the cramped mentality reflects itself in the body and in the face.

And again it is not strange, when we realize that hundreds of generations lie back of both parents, and innumerable ancestors of both father and mother contribute their different mentalities to the children in a family.

Tests, physical, of prisoners, 176-177; intelligence, for grading mentality of the backward, 185-186.

I judged that her mentality equalled the calibre of a sparrow, but I admitted also that the fact did not detract from her attractiveness.

It was far above the little gray head he was trying to ignore and so weighty I feared for her mentality.

Elisa, an extremely gifted and spirited woman, had formed a circle of interesting people, in which her husband, a dashing soldier but a man of uninteresting mentality, played a very subordinate part.

A sidelight on German mentality is contained in a little conversation which I had with a clergyman in the Province of Posen.

It is typical of German mentality that when I met him in Berlin, fifteen months later, he had completely altered his time as to the war, and his tone was, "When is this dreadful war going to end?"

The neglect, and, in some cases refusal, to attend the British wounded by German nurses are a sign both of their own intensity of feeling in regard to the war and their entirely different mentality.

125 examples of  mentalities  in sentences