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mind-set

noun

the ideas and attitudes with which a person approaches a situation, esp when these are seen as being difficult to alter

Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

The local mind-set is, with good reason, to see corruption everywhere.

On Fox News Sunday, conservative pundit George Will compared the mind-set of Americans today to the Ronald Reagan years.

That such a charge would be leveled in 2014 reflects a terribly depressing mind-set.

This mind-set is at the heart of the brilliant work of Pixar Animation Studios.

I don't know but sleep will come sooner and deeper to take the ride and have your mind set at ease before you lie down.

The brains of the bear were not much to one who had had his mind set on eating the whole carcass.

She's had her mind set on his studyin' law so long, 't she won't give up in a hurry.

My wife, with her mind set at rest on the question of the figs, now continued her preparations for dinner.

He struggled on in the soft unaccustomed tyranny of the grass, the glare of sun, with his mind set on the close of day.

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