Sentences with phrase «mental contortions»

But at some point, we have to stop putting ourselves through mental contortions to come up with reasons why women somehow deserve less than men.

Christianity will allow you justify any issues you may have with enough mental contortions.

To go back to the earlier point about mental contortions, it is open to question quite how conscious the whole process is.

With Brad continuing to beat himself up for real or perceived failures, however, Troy asks his dad if he is having a nervous breakdown which seems like a reasonable assumption given Brad's mental contortions which even extend to imagining being jealous of Troy's future fame.

That certainly is their prerogative but they should come right out and say that instead of hiding behind mental contortions.

After years of placing this question before those of faith, I have yet to receive an answer that does not involve semantic acrobatics and mental contortions.

I'm more astonished every day by the mental contortions some people engage in for the sake of religion.

It is brilliant because it is an astounding act of physical excellence — most humans couldn't even get the leg around there; most footballers couldn't hope to control the resultant contact enough to send the ball arcing precisely beyond the keeper — but also the achievement of that act of physical excellence requires a mental contortion of similar audacity.