mental disposition

Does Washington have the proper mental disposition to play clean football for 60 minutes?

In this definition, social capital is a collective mental disposition close to the spirit of community.

Not only does this teaching method put the teacher almost entirely in control, it also invites a particular kind of mental disposition from the participants.

After it, he said, "We have a long way to go to develop the mental disposition that it takes to win down the stretch."

These four orders normally proceed one after the other, depending upon one's age, maturity, mental disposition and qualification.

Continued and unabated ailment, problems and crises devastated his mental disposition.

It was in this mental disposition, physically very empty, but still nauseated by what he had seen, that he had come upon the Professor.

As a consequence of his mental disposition, many of his papers remained unfinished and unpublished.

Swami Sivananda stated that bhava means mental attitude or mental disposition.

The other two exiles fell sick with caries, but Lunin maintained a characteristically strong physical and mental disposition.

As representing one's prevalent mental disposition it is important to note that psychic feeling states are alterable though acts of free will, thought and positive social interactions.

The karmas are literally bound on account of the stickiness of the soul due to existence of various passions or mental dispositions.

Karmas are attracted to the karmic field of a soul due to vibrations created by activities of mind, speech, and body as well as various mental dispositions.

Although having a mental disposition of a mature adult, she will sometimes act like a polite child in order to befriend classmates and convince their parents to buy subscriptions.

The thoughts, words and bodily activities of each of these six travellers are different based on their mental dispositions and are respectively illustrative of the six leśyās.

Being of an odd mental disposition, and is also something of a genius, Ryūji usually stated that the purpose of his life is to gaze at the end of humanity.

To the moralist, every action can be judged as right or wrong-and, mind you, in advance- without knowing what its consequences are going to be- depending upon the mental disposition of the actor.

If an angel appeared to that young man as an accuser of Milady, he would take him, in the mental disposition in which he now found himself, for a messenger sent by the devil.

The Jain texts further illustrate the effects of leśyās on the mental dispositions of a soul, using an example of the reactions of six travellers on seeing a fruit-bearing tree.

In an old country, where generation after generation inhabits the same spot, the mental dispositions and prejudices of our ancestors become in a manner hereditary, and descend to their children with their possessions.

Dean's main contribution to the definition of the term, however, comes from the way he breaks the term up into 'govern' 'mentality', or mentalities of governing-mentality being a mental disposition or outlook.

One level is to do with religious beliefs; he says that he thinks each individual should take their own spiritual path that best fits them and their mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, and cultural background (305).

Hence, it is possible to observe complete non-violence with right knowledge, even when some outward violence occurs to living beings in the course of performing religious duties by observing carefulness and pure mental disposition without any attachment.

Maimonides argued that the Sages did not mean that God really possesses attributes, but that God performs actions similar to human actions that in humans flow from certain attributes and certain mental dispositions, whereas God has no such dispositions.