mood
Example Sentences
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The mood you were in at the time of reminiscence left emotional fingerprints on the memory, as neurons activated by your mental environment synced up with those activated by the recollection.
From Los Angeles Times
The government’s enforcement of social restrictions has ebbed and flowed over the decades in response to the political mood.
Above all, the music serves to amplify the devotional mood of the film, which resembles nothing so much as an impassioned church service.
“We’re not in any mood to celebrate. We don’t know what Christmas and New Year will look like—whether we’ll be able to cook a meal.”
The dictator was in a jovial mood and the two spoke for four hours, dining on black bread, potato pancakes and an array of meats.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
