Sentences with phrase «mental pictures»

They paint mental pictures.

We all have our mental pictures.

Reading aloud opens worlds of imagination to them, reminding them of the importance of developing one's own mental pictures, rather than placidly accepting an image provided by a TV producer.

-- Francis Alÿs A low, indistinct and continuous sound, murmuring evokes the telling of stories or rumours that conjure powerful mental pictures.

Dressed in a bright red Falke sock, a neatly turned heel features a small brown scab; a tire prominently branded «Michelin» seems deflated alongside mental pictures generated by the Michelin Man's Rubenesque form.

At Terezín, with horror all around him, he found himself composing mental pictures of the barracks, fences, and roads leading through the camp and adjusting them in his mind's eye for better compositions.

The mental pictures obtained from the hands on examination, combined with the overall visual appearance, should simplify the choice.

He actually creates mental pictures based on smells.

To most of us, the mere mention of the words «stock broker,» sends mental pictures of people in business suits shouting at each other and signalling obscure gestures, while talking to multiple people over the telephone.

I try to form many different mental pictures of what the world should be like and wait for one of them to be confirmed.

... a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

I myself, although a big reader, had a lot of trouble making the transition, but when I did read the originals, later in life, the mental pictures I carried with me were all formed by the artists of Classics Illustrated.

All the characters are well crafted and I immediately formed strong mental pictures of each one.

I'm talking aboutwords with a little oomph: words that paint vivid mental pictures.

Stevens's writing style is elaborately descriptive, allowing readers to paint detailed mental pictures of the scenes she is trying to conjure:

The phrase «family hauler» evokes a lot of mental pictures, few of them brimming with excitement.

Discuss how your mental pictures help you understand the text.

«The stories feature mental pictures of nature scenes and encourage deep breathing and quiet reflection, telling children to «think about your heart» and «choose what colour your flower is» but not to talk, just to reflect.

Stuart Taylor, Riverside Christian College, QLD Learning walks: The mental pictures that change practice

Indeed, while the term senior might bring with it mental pictures of blue rinses and carpet slippers, in practice mature daters are simply those who have been round the block once or twice.

What do mental pictures have to do with in - the - flesh performance?

Visualization, or guided imagery, is a technique that involves creating detailed mental pictures in your mind of peaceful settings.

Stop creating mental pictures of what lies ahead... stop creating «what if this» and «what if that» scenarios in your mind... stop trying to weigh out the benefits and drawbacks of performing or not performing your workout...

I read applications in «3D»; I create mental pictures of each person.

Try to form mental pictures of the phenomena being discussed, because visualizing the material will help you to retain more of the concepts.

If only mental pictures of The Rock were enough to stop this disgusting epidemic from happening.

It combines relaxation techniques along with positive self - statements and mental pictures to help kids develop their self - esteem.

I just take mental pictures.

(Provide your own mental pictures.)

Because Jesus used metaphors that created mental pictures in the right brain of His listeners.

The adjectives used help build positive mental pictures in the mind of the listeners.

Building the mental picture of what such COAs look like helps to reduce your team's response time — and win.

Future promise is the mental picture buyers carry around in their heads that helps to move them forward.

«It took years to start meeting people and build a mental picture of how the fashion world worked,» he says.

Assume that when people think of you, they will store your name, a mental picture of you, a few words they associate with you and a few stories about your behavior.

You're tapping into human psychology when you give someone a mental picture of a future event.

In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture of the Son of God.

@JohnQuest: I just got a mental picture of that big Kool - Aid pitcher from the»70s crashing through a wall, but instead of the smiley face it has the word «PETER» on it.

Your theory presents a mental picture that I may be able to use in my own struggles to mesh my intellectual integrity with my religious community (not to imply that the two are of any necessity mutually exclusive).

And by weird, I mean that it is too complicated for someone such as Wickman to blunder into some argument without the intellectual tools required to even have a mental picture of what she is commenting on.

Thus, it was pure love - incarnate that publically rebuked the Pharisees and drew the mental image of a «white washed tomb»... or that drew a mental picture of Herod as a «fox».

In discussing this, he describes the technique using a mental picture that induces calm, silence, and peace — a tranquil lake mirroring the blue sky, or the starry sky in the silence of the night.

The traditional mental picture associated with the belief in the resurrection of Jesus has been so centered on the story of the empty tomb, that we must now examine it and discuss its origin and historical value.

/ Make a mental picture of this tension — it might be a rope tied in a knot or a clenched fist.

I've got a mental picture of Hippy and BRC on the Taco Bell Mir space station target....

The mental picture of the earth revolving around the sun suggested that, at any time, we might drop into free fall in outer space.

This new and developing form of human consciousness is still far from universal, but the world that we each create in our heads1 (our mental picture of reality) is now being constructed rather differently, by absorbing innumerable bits of knowledge and information from all over the world, not just from our own small locality.

Why we have this nice looking mental picture is understandable, since many Churches have «altars» and they are usually very nice looking structures.

While most English versions say that Abraham «built an altar» to God (Gen. 13:18), we usually get a mental picture of a simple pile of stones upon which Abraham then worshipped.

The traditional mental picture of Jesus Christ was not dismantled intentionally by scholars hostile to Christianity.