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a clear and telling mental image
the events left a permanent impression in his mind
he had no clear picture of himself or his world
he described his mental picture of his assailant
How To Use mental picture In A Sentence
- Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.
- Do you have a mental picture of what it will look like?
- As the elevens were released, a mental picture came to this reporter in the form of both managers throwing back their heads with laughter, before uttering the word "touche" from behind a cigar. Arsenal Run Riot In Extra Time To Bury Spurs 4-1 | 90:00 Soccer
- She had a mental picture of Hector and her mother each arriving on her doorstep, the one importunate, the other irate. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
- Most people do not know it, but the voice coming over the telephone conveys a mental picture to the listener.
- In this way they could convey to one another mental pictures of such objects.
- Eventually, I shall lay them out in triplets, with narrow borders down the side in a solid colour, to make them into squares, and then set them in alternating orientations (I know, hard to get a mental picture - perhaps when I have time, I will do a diagram - I know just what I mean!) Archive 2006-11-01
- I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description.
- This monumental picture, the work of an unknown artist, painted on a hot, Italian summer day in July 1747, is much more than the evocative period piece it first appears to be.
- While I have the mental picture of the local "scally" in my head,making up lies with his brief to fit the facts i'm in full agreement with you. The Policeman's Blog