turn of mind
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The truth is that if Macbeth had even a fraction of Hamlet’s philosophical turn of mind he never would have killed the king.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
This late in the 19th century, it’s appropriate that a man like Arthur Morgan, of a countercultural turn of mind, would harbor personal animosity toward the post-Homestead Pinkertons.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Being of taxonomical turn of mind, Edwards also organizes his many titles by kind rather than chronology, usually settling on three to five works to represent various categories.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
Twain himself had a dietrologia turn of mind.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2017
Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
