The idea was a new one; it took some mental readjustment.

As for any mental readjustment, well, he'd made that in all of two seconds.

Fanny had always stimulated him, reassured him, given him the mental readjustment that he needed.

Never were a people so disillusioned as the Germans must already be, never has a nation been called upon for so complete a mental readjustment.

Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.