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Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun.
War and Peace 2003
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Otherwise the whole elaborate Kantian system probably seems to you an unreal brain-spun structure.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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They are like mathematical problems and solutions, sheer brain-spun and unlyrical works.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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But he never succeeded in hearing any of it: for he did not count a few short pieces, quite cleverly written, but cold and brain-spun, to which he had not listened very attentively.
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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Personal passion disgusts one with brain-spun systems of the universe, and may even lead to a mistrust of mathematics!
Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
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It is all a brain-spun creation, born of his dramatic reading and of his studies in medicine and philosophy.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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