presence of mind

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.

“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.

He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.

The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

Many British Ferns evidence a marked tendency to “sport,” and this is a fact which the beginner should always bear in mind.