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

“First I shall review, say, ten or twelve more speeches of Cicero’s, to put me in the right frame of mind.”

From Literature

“Mio Cristo” is a delicate and airy ballad about forgiveness sung in Italian, which puts her in an operatic frame of mind.

From The Wall Street Journal

Others guessed, correctly, that Khrushchev’s first offer had been made in a state of panic and that this new one was written in a calmer frame of mind.

From Literature