Sentence examples for act of projection from inspiring English sources

But what's really going on is an act of projection.

Writing a story is an act of projection.

In a more subtle casting of this usual explanation, Pfaelzer portrays it as an act of projection.

The accusations of Obamabot-ness feel like an act of projection, of protesting too much, when Palin gets on a stage and a bunch of people in business casual inadvertently reenact the crowd footage from early Beatles concerts.

The irony is that, even at its most visionary (and, as in the Cold War, imagining one's opponent has a visionary strategy is usually a distorting act of projection), the strategy of Islamist terrorism depends entirely on the meaning the victims consent to give the events.

Acts of imagination are different from acts of projection: one kind terrifies; the other clarifies.

In planning an action to be realized in the future, one relies on reflective acts of "projection," like those found in reflective memory, only now oriented in a future as opposed to past direction.

I realize this is the ultimate act of self-projection and maybe a little heretical.

In his compassion for the downtrodden and the poor, but equally in his pity for the hard hedonism of the rich, Christ is the incarnation of love as an act of imagination, not reason, an imaginative projection of compassion onto all creatures.

Perhaps it was a case of projection.

A second common type of projection is called stereographic projection.