frame of mind
Example Sentences
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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
“Mio Cristo” is a delicate and airy ballad about forgiveness sung in Italian, which puts her in an operatic frame of mind.
She said: "The frame of mind he put me in, if I didn't have my daughter, I would have ended my life."
From BBC
In many ways, this frame of mind persisted, animating Updike’s astonishingly prolific literary career.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.