1 Of this mentor young Chichikov speedily appraised the mentality; wherefore he fashioned his behaviour to correspond with it.
2 In general the trait of Speranski's mentality which struck Prince Andrew most was his absolute and unshakable belief in the power and authority of reason.
3 But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.
4 This mentality, Lepidus would say, is indeed bred out of your mud by the operation of your sun.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 5 Husband and wife glanced at one another, both smiling with self-satisfaction, and each mentally claiming the honor of this visit.
6 He seemed carefully to seek out her tender spots so as to torture her mentally as harshly as possible.
7 He was evidently suffering both physically and mentally.
8 But she remembered too how he had changed of late toward Mademoiselle Bourienne and could not bear to see her, thereby showing how unjust were the reproaches Princess Mary had mentally addressed to her.
9 He mentally appointed a governor, one who would win the hearts of the people.
10 Having learned that there were many charitable institutions in Moscow he mentally decided that he would shower favors on them all.
11 Count Rostopchin was mentally preparing the angry and stinging reproaches he meant to address to Kutuzov for his deception.
12 While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales.
13 A child of excellent abilities, and with strong powers of observation, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt bodily or mentally, it seems wonderful to me that nobody should have made any sign in my behalf.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK... 14 You would not be open with me," he seemed to say, mentally addressing her; "so much the worse for you.
15 And, strange to say, what had had such weight with him, while they were there and while he mentally put himself at their point of view, suddenly lost all importance for him.