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
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
Tall and lanky with a long, forceful stride and a blond head that usually bobbed above his competitors’ in a race, Bannister was a gentleman athlete with a philosophical turn of mind.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018
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
“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?”
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
