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Example sentences for: psyche
How can you use “psyche” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The Journal finds all the psychopathology in the case elsewhere: ".[T]he roots of this crisis lie somewhere in the psyche shaped by Mr. Clinton's genes, troubled childhood and life experiences."
The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's psyche: His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.
Dismissing the possibility of inferior talent, the paper decides it has something to do with the national character: "Is there some cancerous part of the English psyche which produces serial chokers.
While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.
(Shields compares the impact of Waco on the American psyche to that of the Kennedy assassination.)
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