The ancient kung fu masters often told students a parable to illustrate the need to come to kung fu with an uncluttered mind.

Then, with a mind unprejudiced by dubious testimony and uncluttered with material clues, I'd determine the exact nature of the crime which this fleeing person had committed.

I've been sucked into the inner space of an uncluttered mind.

The commissioner simply termed his friend a man with an uncluttered mind, which enabled him to give a casual and often valuable slant on some complex situation.

Otherwise he would have seen that his friend with the "uncluttered mind" was absorbing all this chit-chat with the same keen interest that he displayed across a chess-board.

Mr. Updike's fourth volume of higher journalism shows a mind at once crammed and uncluttered, with courage to tackle any subject.

The trials need an uncluttered mind.

Game-day decisions require an uncluttered mind.

At dinner, she listened to the chatter at her table with a mind uncluttered by worry about a coming presentation.

Ned Beatty only met Worden once before taking on the role, and he said the detective had "an uncluttered mind and a near-photographic memory".