mind's eye

How To Use mind's eye In A Sentence

• I have this satisfactory stereotype in my mind's eye, all broken veins and Mittel Europa. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
• Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye. Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift
• Bit-by-bit the bead of a gun sight assembled in her mind's eye and nestled between his thick eyebrows.
• What Walpole calls the absurdest passages are precisely those which possess most interest for posterity; namely, the minute personal details, which bring Johnson home to the mind's eye. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
• I can see beyond, in my mind's eye, unending spaces, and superhuman silences, and depthless calm, till what I feel is almost fear. The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary
• In your mind's eye, visualize someone who has hurt or wronged you.
• In our mind's eye we can see the tipis scattered along the sheltered areas with always a few sentinels at the tops of the hills.
• Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue.
• As in the rhapsody, Hadley's music makes its subject appear with utter clarity in the mind's eye.
• It is kind of disillusioning to realize that even painterly paintings and other works that are considered entirely novel creations often involved analogous 'tracing' techniques rather than realistic forms just springing onto the canvas from a painter's mind's eye. Archive 2006-08-09