line of thought

How To Use line of thought In A Sentence

• So on this line of thought, the anti-social behavior of young people in this category derives from their "demoralization" -- their failure, or society's failure, to absorb a compelling set of normative standards about personal and social conduct. Disaffected youth
• Whether women were in politics or the wash-house was a sociological abstrusity beyond his line of thought, and not though it cost him all his fortune to refuse could he have decently addressed any association even on beloved sporting matters. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
• This is the character's line of thought, a self-accusation, not an authorial verdict, and he returns to it eagerly a little later. Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)
• It even had a name: la pensee unique, the single line of thought shared by generations of leaders, most recently German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a Christian Democrat, and French President Francois Mitterrand, a socialist. Left? Right? Center?
• This line of thought affords actualist representationists a powerful means to accommodate many apparently recalcitrant modal truths about non-actual possible objects, provided that these non-actual possible objects can be individuated uniquely by means of actually existing potential parts or origin. Possible Objects
• Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting.
• Bukharin went on, however, to make a leap that did not necessarily follow from his previous line of thought.
• This promising line of thought takes us back to the barbarian invasions that overwhelmed Rome in the 5th century.
• The fact that the tumor developed a few weeks after the insect bite, favors this line of thought.
• It was queer on his part any way," added the youth, following the line of thought forced upon him; "just when we need him the most he is gone; the Sauk is a good fellow, but he can't compare with Deerfoot. Footprints in the Forest