In fact it was possible that the concept of "life" could be so abstract in some alien mentalities that it could only fit a specific pattern.

It's a completely alien mentality for profit-focused companies that still dream of being paid every time someone hears a song.

Or perhaps some exotic twist of alien mentality was involved.

He had been a fool, of course, to do it, and yet at the time it had seemed important to understand the deadly, alien mentality.

The alien mentality continued searching, appeared to detect nothing-and withdrew.

The Ly-cilph observed the alien mentalities cluster around the boundary zone of its identity focus.

The Ly-cilph fought to retain its fundamental integrity as its thought routines were violated and subsumed by the incursive alien mentalities.

The alien mentalities were forcing it to participate in the flux of events which ordered the universe, to interfere.

I don't know how fast the alien mentality can make them open up.

On the other hand, men could not and would not remain subservient to such cold, alien mentalities.