MENTALITY in a Sentence

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1. He got the answer by mental arithmetic.
2. Two years ago he suffered a mental breakdown.
3. You need to develop a positive mental attitude.
4. The term 'mental illness' is difficult to define.
5. He was evidently suffering both physically and mentally.

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 Meanings and Examples of MENTALITY
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mentality
 n.  mental action or power; intellectual activity; intellectuality
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  Of this mentor young Chichikov speedily appraised the mentality; wherefore he fashioned his behaviour to correspond with it.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
2  In general the trait of Speranski's mentality which struck Prince Andrew most was his absolute and unshakable belief in the power and authority of reason.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
3  But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  This mentality, Lepidus would say, is indeed bred out of your mud by the operation of your sun.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Husband and wife glanced at one another, both smiling with self-satisfaction, and each mentally claiming the honor of this visit.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
6  He seemed carefully to seek out her tender spots so as to torture her mentally as harshly as possible.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
7  He was evidently suffering both physically and mentally.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
8  But she remembered too how he had changed of late toward Mademoiselle Bourienne and could not bear to see her, thereby showing how unjust were the reproaches Princess Mary had mentally addressed to her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
9  He mentally appointed a governor, one who would win the hearts of the people.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
10  Having learned that there were many charitable institutions in Moscow he mentally decided that he would shower favors on them all.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
11  Count Rostopchin was mentally preparing the angry and stinging reproaches he meant to address to Kutuzov for his deception.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
12  While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
13  A child of excellent abilities, and with strong powers of observation, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt bodily or mentally, it seems wonderful to me that nobody should have made any sign in my behalf.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
14  You would not be open with me," he seemed to say, mentally addressing her; "so much the worse for you.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
15  And, strange to say, what had had such weight with him, while they were there and while he mentally put himself at their point of view, suddenly lost all importance for him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  One police officer told the BBC that fifty-three mentally ill patients were resident in the institution.
17  Her trainer, who pioneered wrestling in the UK, said: "Women tend to be mentally tougher than males - they're determined to win and it's the key to everything."
18  North Korean leader lobbed insults at U.S. President on Friday, calling him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and hinting at frightening new weapons tests.
19  Two years ago he suffered a mental breakdown.
20  The analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person's mental state.
21  He got the answer by mental arithmetic.
22  Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.
23  Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
24  These mental exercises are designed to break linear thinking habits and encourage the creativity that is needed for innovation.
25  This chapter is concerned with the mental health of older people.
26  There has been a serious deterioration in her mental condition.
27  Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court.
28  The term 'mental illness' is difficult to define.
29  You need to develop a positive mental attitude.
30  People experience differences in physical and mental capability depending on the time of day.