turn of mind

Example Sentences

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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

Her wayward yet pious turn of mind will likely catch readers off guard as well.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2021

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

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