brain-stuff

Now what went on behind those brown eyes of his, inside that pinch of brain-stuff, when I turned suddenly to the door and greeted an imaginary person outside?

The Other Animals 2010

He was born into the world a bundle of instincts and a pinch of brain-stuff, all wrapped around in a framework of bone, meat, and hide.

The Other Animals 2010

The abundant release of brain-stuff, the mental plenty which has resulted from the organization of material plenty, is of necessity being directed into new channels.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

On the other hand, the idea of a rock all covered with blood and brain-stuff ...

Orphans of Chaos 2005

The kids and the brain-stuff go back to Thunderclap Station by the door.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

Long ago Meredith urged that if fiction was to go on living, it must give us "brain-stuff" and

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

A tremendous assortment of mental images presented themselves for inspection, flickering up unbidden out of his brain-stuff, -- old visions and new, familiar things and vague, troublesome possibilities, all strangely jumbled together.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Throughout the long afternoon, thrilled alike with the splendid repose and the crackling action of the work, shaken with its power, there blended with spiritual emotion the conviction that I had no business with the reviewing or criticizing of such brain-stuff as Jack London's.

PROLOGUE AND A MEETING 1921

War is in itself damnable -- a profligate misuse of the accumulated brain-stuff of centuries.

The Glory of the Trenches Coningsby Dawson 1921

Arnold Schoenberg might stand as an example of the equally excessive outbalancing of sensibility by brain-stuff.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918