His anxious frame of mind was like a wild animal caged in a dark room, frantically ramming, clawing, beating against the walls, trying to find a way out.
She was in a cheerful frame of mind.
When they're in the right frame of mind, families can ask more realistically how expensive a college, or how big a loan, they can afford.
Then you start the interaction in that frame of mind instead of the nervous one.
If you've got papers piled up in haphazard stacks, stationary items all over the place and sticky-notes plastered to your monitor, it's going to be hard to get into a focused, calm frame of mind.
The best balance is someone who will listen to your feelings, empathize, and then help you look at things you may be missing or help you get into a new frame of mind in another way.
He was in a bad frame of mind this morning.
This is a well-established method of measuring instinctive attraction to an image, given that those in a more upbeat frame of mind flinch less.
We did well to put the referee in the right frame of mind to officiate without too much pressure tonight.
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