But the dictionary chose Apple fans as its mental image.
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I create a mental image through a sort of meditation.
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For a start, real whistleblowers don't always match our mental image.
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When you're strolling through what feels like the woods in First Blood, the mental image of target-practicing Oregonian militiamen is a powerful one, and it turned out to be more than just a mental image.
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If you're smart, you take a mental image, the way Picken did.
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One way is to use language that evokes a vivid mental image.
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Did you have a mental image of the film you wanted to convey?
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It creates a nice mental image of a massive, disconnected crowd breathing together.
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Our mental image of job-killing automation is robots in factories or warehouses.
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"I have a mental image for every single person, place and thing," she said.
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The very phrase conjures the gnarly mental image of freeze-dried pockets of powder.
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Red-hot magma bursting through the Antarctic ice sheet evokes a particularly powerful mental image.
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A Japanese model's video of a photoshoot gone awry helps to prove our mental image.
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Abruptly, I painted over my mental image of a reticent older man with a beard.
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My indelible mental image of it involves a miniature horse — or was it a pony?
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Still, to this day, I sometimes struggle to shake my mental image of his crime.
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So how much of that mental image is now tainted by the stench of fried batteries?
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New research suggests dogs are able to form a mental image of an object they've smelled.
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She envisions lumpy wooden handles with "a sumptuous little belly," a bizarre and wonderful mental image.
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Aka turning "high volume consumer funnels" into "flywheels", if that's a mental image that works for you.
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The mental image that most Americans harbor of what actual authoritarianism looks like is fantastical and cartoonish.
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That grandiose mental image is a real place — the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Brunei's capital city.
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How can a visualization match — let alone better — the perfect mental image my brain conjured just for me?
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Give a mental image to accompany your mysterious selfie and tease the ever-loving shit out of him.
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They both break the mental image of hearing, say, a guitar, and thinking of a guitar being played.
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The white Star Destroyer is closer to our mental image of the classic Star Destroyer than the real thing.
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I have a mental image of you sitting in a leather chair, staring out a window, solemnly contemplating narration.
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When you think of the nightlife in Austin, your first mental image might be of beers, backyards, and benches.
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I have a mental image of reindeer from their participation in the opening ceremony of the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
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If we push ourselves to dream up a mental image of what we're reading, we retain a lot more knowledge.
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Whitehead. Just scanning your eyes over that word (or the mental image it conjures up) probably gives you instant shudders.
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If the public gets the impression that scientists are liberal crusaders, it will be a hard mental image to break.
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Some fit my preexisting mental image of a bruncher—slouchy top bun, boho dress, suede booties—but most do not.
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Honestly, the mental image of the Thronos crashing through multiple floors of a house is equal parts funny and horrifying.
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That is, the mental image of authoritarian rule in the minds of most Americans is completely unrealistic, and dangerously so.
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"I need to keep my mental image of him positive, to believe he's OK." In tone and temperament, Deja is gentle.
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Why it works: It's a mental image that your partner won't be able to get out of his or her head.
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Now, clear some space in that mental image and insert a high-end luxury goods store and a hip jewelry boutique.
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Fully 71 of them described — in terms quite similar to one another — the experience of creating a mental image in their mind.
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Although I can't physically see the person, the mental image I have of them in my head influences my view of them.
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Users will then be able to incorporate that information from the Soundscape as they build a mental image of what's around them.
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" Her mental image of herself is one in which she's "naked and spread-eagled with this fat old man's finger inside her.
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A mental image flashed in my mind: an American schoolboy holding a football aloft in the end zone, ready to spike it.
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Our mental image is of an android in overalls, clocking in with a lunchbox full of oil and bolts, and grabbing a hammer.
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Prior to seeing this show, I wasn't well-acquainted with Wojnarowicz's sculpture or paintings, and these works challenged my mental image of him.
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The experiment suggests the birds held a mental image of the desired tool in their minds, which they used to construct the new tool.
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I did read Harlequin novels as a preteen, though, and formed the perfect mental image of a repressed, withholding, cruel yet devilishly handsome man.
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For entrepreneurs who don't pitch well — or who don't fit investors' mental image of a successful entrepreneur — Demo Days may hurt more than they help.
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The next step is to come up with a mental image that vividly captures that feeling and that you can summon in moments of weakness.
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"What compels me are the visions that need materialization: the desire to physicalize thought, to physicalize and materialize a mental image of connectedness," she explains.
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If our minds are focused on the wrong mental image, we can end up doing the wrong thing, such as driving to the wrong destination.
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Your first mental image of Vincent Price may be as a hammy presence in horror movies, but can you picture him as a Mormon leader?
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For many, the first mental image associated with the word "vibrator" may be that of a vaguely phallic form in My Little Pony pinks or purples.
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Anna Cross from Wilmington, N.C., feels businesses are to blame: Associated with the term "Black Friday" is the mental image of pushy crowds and angry shoppers.
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It would be nice to tell Caroline that her generation will find a solution, that my mental image of this small, brave girl gives me hope.
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Even without the open applause, the simple mental image was enough for thousands of Pussy Hat-wearing Twitterers to nod their head as they read along.
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At the close, when Emma González is shown reciting their names at the March for Our Lives rally, we have a mental image of each person.
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Even if you're a total space junkie, your mental image is probably an orange and white-striped planet with a big red dot in the southern hemisphere.
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The title of the book refers to a mnemonic the author used to memorize a deck of cards: a mental image of Albert Einstein dancing the Moonwalk.
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So he must translate theory into a mental image of the completed work, as though a film of the drawings and specifications were running in his mind.
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You're describing running down the driveway and actually swinging punches, and that's obviously a funny mental image, but it's also surprising because it is for a podcast.
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The scene in itself is hilarious, but the mental image of our president watching it (likely with the FLOTUS beside him!) is fully freaking the internet out.
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This was the absolute rock bottom in the Stormy Daniels saga (so far), and meme-ing it was basically the only way to cope with the mental image.
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"I'd spent 30 years of my life assuming that when people said 'that's a horrible mental image' or 'picture this,' that they were talking in metaphors," she explains.
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Selecting an actor to portray a character from a book is always a fraught task — movie adaptations of books invariably shatter someone's mental image of a beloved character.
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In this situation the private mental image is never even permitted to exist — as soon as Benton James Kessler (what a name!) is introduced, we're given a photo.
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In most cases, de Vetten starts with a sketch or mental image of what she wants the cake to look like before she starts sculpting, she told Insider.
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My world was filled with subdivisions named things like Silver Lake and Colony Cove; at the same time, I couldn't conjure a mental image of a literal cave.
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The mental image he is conjuring is something out of "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome": Hordes of ill-intentioned people surging toward the US with malice in their minds.
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I was terrified of actually seeing a dead person, and worried that the last mental image I'd have of my friend would be him laying lifeless and cold.
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Following the Death Stranding hype cycle was a bit gamelike in itself, as fans were forced to construct some mental image of the game out of Kojima's sporadic hints.
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Those who've never read the books behind Thrones would be forgiven for having a mental image of Dorne that's little more than the palace where the kingdom's leaders reside.
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For those captivated by the fantasy, the mental image of a platinum record can apparently shine so brightly that it obscures the most important aspect of a song: powerful pipes.
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As a result, the brain has to make its best guess about what's most likely to be going on in the fuzzy periphery — and fill in the mental image accordingly.
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Now, when I'm scrolling through shoes and tossing them into my shopping cart, I have a jarring mental image of computers silently recording my clicks, pauses, mouse swoops and typos.
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He was joking, but the mental image helped us all see in physical terms — Pacific on one side, Sierra Nevada on the other — what has become obvious in cultural terms.
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The mental image of Ramona and Jill's reunion leads us to Bethenny, who decides to go to Bobby's funeral, even though she hasn't spoken to Jill for at least six years.
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Instead, the updated version preserves the rosy mental image of BioShock I have from years ago, while video of the actual game looks blocky and flat by the standards of 2016.
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I did some digging—please excuse the mental image that conjures up—and found colon therapy proponents commonly describe rotting detritus—"mucoid plaque"—as coating the walls of the gastrointestinal tract.
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He began to exit, but a last full-throated hurrah from the crowd caused Woods to turn back briefly — as if he wanted to save a mental image of the scene.
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Next, researchers read statements, and participants rated either how easily the statement prompted a mental image (a visual learning experience) or how easy it was to pronounce (an auditory learning experience).
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For some of us, the mental image of mobile gaming is still somewhere between Words With Friends and Flappy Bird, but fully featured games have come a long way on mobile devices.
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When I dropped acid in a garden in Berkeley in summer 2016, the word "hypnaldoozy" popped into my head, accompanied by a mental image of my younger self holding a hot dog.
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It was too good a mental image not to try and create, so we've partnered with JetBlue to make it a reality on select flights heading to CES, the world's biggest tech show.
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The network's interconnected neurons dictate her features: eyes, skin color, shapes, strands of hair, similarly to how a human brain uses a network of neurons to construct a mental image of a face.
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Since the last trip, he had deteriorated visibly; I went to Israel only every two years or so, which meant my mental image of his aging felt accelerated, like a time-lapse video.
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The word "gnome" paints a pretty exact mental image — always a stubby and bearded fellow wearing a droopy red hat — but not for fans of the New York-based design practice New Affiliates.
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My phone means that at any given time with the right amount of privacy I can have a nice, mind-clearing orgasm without having to conjure up that old stand-by mental image.
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I don't know how you would guide them, it's difficult because many times we have a mental image of what we're looking for but then, in reality, we like some other people as well.
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And fair enough; what mental image of Sichuanese food is more often conjured up than mountainous heaps of blood-red peppers, glorious waves of capsaicin-induced head sweats, and a conspicuous indifference to décor?
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Communication planet Mercury is still sitting on the Sun in the sector of your chart concerning self-worth (and material worth), so you're still getting a clear mental image of what you most value.
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"Put a chain around me and I'll hold your stuff for you... just sayin," he wrote, giving us all a mental image that might burn out our last remaining pure, untouched childhood TV memories.
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In retrospect, my mental image of a harasser was so naive: a finance guy who smacked his secretary's butt or a corporate middle manager with an inferiority complex or a ruthless dick like Harvey Weinstein.
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When I meet someone new, I'll have to imagine him or her first—I make a mental image of his or her look—and that's what he or she will look like in my dream.
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In an experimental novel by Anna Banti, published in 1947, the Italian author wove the story of her own life in Nazi-occupied Florence with her mental image of Artemisia, "my companion from three centuries ago".
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Their mental image of work comes from the pre-internet era, and we need to stop taking them seriously and start listening to the people on the brutal front lines of the modern low-wage workforce.
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I just... I just can't shake the mental image of Sean Kenny, on all fours on a coffee table, sweating and shouting "I'm not gay!" while his brother thumbs another Kinder Egg into his ass. v.
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Parts of the video are on YouTube, but in the very likely case that a video of this nature doesn't jive with the culture of your open office, you'll do just fine with the mental image.
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It's a shameful and heartbreaking mental image from the past: minority children being turned away at the schoolhouse door, denied an opportunity for a quality education for no other reason than the color of their skin.
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So when you are working, you need to remember what this plant was like two weeks ago and have a mental image of it: how it looked then and now, the positioning of leaves, and so on.
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Creating a mental image is the best way to get the information to stick, he said, and he usually thinks of an image that incorporates a memorable physical feature, like a prominent nose or unique hair style.
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It was supposed to conjure a mental image of the hunt, but it registered mainly as a distinctive show of power and precision from a band with its own metabolism, whether at rest or ready to pounce.
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Unfortunately for McNabb, the mental image of a violent army of pigs facing off against one AR-15-wielding hero quickly got the better of Twitter and, before long, it was trending nationwide with over 50,000 tweets.
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There's a sense that the story has been twisted around and retold so often that there's nothing left of it to explore beyond our collective mental image of a tall blond guy with a crown and a sword.
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Each collection starts with Dickely setting the mood for the season: "The process starts with me having a mental image of a place and reconstructing it — the textures, colors, sounds — and putting all these elements together," she says.
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For the uninitiated, the term "craft museum" might conjure up a perplexing mental image of a Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store full of roped-off displays of glitter and yarn, with "do not touch" signs on every wall.
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If you arrive at the movie with a mental image of Hercules slipping into that pool, you might be less emotionally enthralled to watch the movie's dog, in his incarnation as a German-shepherd police dog, heroically swim through dangerous waters.
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When I learnt later in school that the Earth goes around the Sun, I was faced with the difficult task of deleting a mental image that made sense to me, and replacing it with a model that was not intuitively understandable.
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You may have a mental image of giant floating garbage islands, but the majority of them are made up of microplastics, much of it too small to see with the naked eye (though not too small for fish to accidentally ingest).
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The rest of us might let that comment roll off our backs as hyperbole, but for the little girl the answer was directed to, shaking off the mental image of a globe engulfed in flames might be a little more difficult. 11.
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Most times people mean it in a "has this been tried and been proven to work?" kind of way, but the occasional creep asks these kinds of questions with the intent to use the mental image later...or in our parking lot.
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But if nothing else, I hope Kobach can help change our mental image of an American racist, from lazy stereotypes of manual laborers to a Yale-trained lawyer with a PhD, whose racial views come in part from a celebrated Harvard professor.
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Think of Harriet Tubman and you're likely to picture an old woman in a kerchief, seated and somber, a mental image drawn from the handful of formal photos taken near the end of the abolitionist's remarkably (and in many ways, inexplicably) long life.
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Some blind people say that if they look at an apple using the BrainPort, or vOICe, or EyeMusic, it feels like seeing: the knowledge that an apple is sitting on the table in front of them appears in their brain as a mental image.
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We were also, we considered ... Stripe is really a builder, as in building things, and creation and so forth, and so we kind of found the mental image of a forge, like some kind of blacksmith, sort of like that, was attractive to us.
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The most galling aspect of this whole charade is the mental image of people from a different generation, with no vested interest in club culture, no desire to see it thrive, and certainly no wish to progress it, holding the sword of Damocles over these places.
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Before you roll your eyes at the mental image of all the fashion folk wearing short-shorts and skirts in the dead of winter, don't write off the potential of those graphic tights we've been seeing to at least make the idea a little more practical.
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I have no capacity to create any kind of mental image of a beach, whether I close my eyes or open them, whether I'm reading the word in a book or concentrating on the idea for hours at a time — or whether I'm standing on the beach itself.
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While we didn't think it could get cornier than the mental image of Mayor Pete hamming it up to Estelle's "American Boy" or Shea Diamond's "American Pie" (whew, man, we get it), his rolled up-sleeved arms pumping upwards toward the sky and a cartoonish grin on his face.
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If you're struggling to get a mental image just imagine what your hand would look like if you wore a latex glove for a month… All this new information left me with more questions than answers—like how do you pee, and how frequently are guys washing these things?
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It's silly to me that Beto spends like half his waking hours hopping on the countertops of coffee shops across Iowa, but—and I assume this is part of the point—I am enjoying the mental image of Trump wheezily humping himself up onto a table at a Ruth's Chris in Ottumwa.
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Born in 1939, Gerald Murnane is an Australian author of 14 books of memoir and fiction, each of which is wonderfully unusual in that it takes as its focus the mental images Murnane sees while he writes, the scenery surrounding those images and the way one mental image will lead to another and then another.
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When you use an fMRI to look at visual processing in the brain you see that the brain doesn't just rely on the visual processing centers to create a mental image of what's in front of the eyes, it goes searching all the available resources in the brain to see what can be brought to bear on the problem.
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I've always found the Cyclops / Wolverine / Jean love triangle pretty dopey (she's the original Bella, boring yet somehow mesmerizing to glowering tough guys), so I appreciated that Apocalypse finally gave it a reason to exist: Wolverine is now carrying around a mental image of Jean as a salvation figure who pulled him out of mindless insanity.
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Somehow the road map does nothing to dissipate the impact of the moment when the rolling thrum of guitars that dominates the first half of "Proud Mary" gives way to horns blasting out that melodic line, and the mental image of Turner spinning in tight circles, wig ablur, arms tutted out like twin cranes, tassels floating away from her body, arrives.
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A series of studies published by the American Psychological Association in 22016 have shown that black men are more often associated with violence than white men, and a 257 study from researchers at the University of California Los Angeles found that just mentioning a "black-sounding" name is enough to conjure a mental image that is larger and more threatening than a "white-sounding" one.
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Letter of Recommendation If you are an American over the age of 6, chances are you have a mental image of that moment, in December of 1620, when the Pilgrims stepped ashore in Plymouth: a gray sky, a craggy coast and bone-chilling waters holding the Mayflower in the distance as a huddle of God-fearing voyagers, all with solemn expressions and oversize cockel hats, lasso their sloop to a rock.
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