Sentence examples for an exercise in psychological from inspiring English sources

It was "an exercise in psychological warfare and I confess that I found my experience as head of psychological warfare in Malaya in 1947 extremely useful", he recalled, remembering one of his important postwar government jobs.

Simply, this is an exercise in psychological horror, a study of how far one man and his accomplice will go to crush the literary ideals of another — for sport, spite and inspiration.

There are usually two ways to tell a story like this: as an exercise in psychological explanation (in the manner of innumerable serial-killer-themed movies and television shows) or as a study of the limits of interpretation.

Both the Obama and Clinton insults have a distinctly Trumpian vibe, but surely neither is an exercise in Freudian psychological projection.

Hitler came to power during the completion of the film, and although Lang's claims that his movie amounts to an anti-Nazi critique (something most of the cast and crew would have disagreed with) were exaggerated, it's still a startling exercise in psychological manipulation.

Far from delivering easy pleasures, modernist fiction could be an exercise in aesthetic and psychological subtlety; it was written not for people with time on their hands but for those willing to put in the time to master it.

"The Machinist" may be an expertly manipulated exercise in psychological horror, but that's all it is.

Running Scared, which Hemmings also co-scripted with Clive Exton, was an ambitious, if ultimately flawed, exercise in psychological tension, made in an elliptical narrative style seemingly influenced by Antonioni.

Earning high-level loot, explicitly required to participate in the game's high-point, the Vault of Glass raid, was an exercise in frustration and destructive psychological loops to the extent that players chose to stand outside a cave shooting low-level enemies for hours on end to earn rewards, rather than play the game "as intended".

In the end, however, his appetite for romance-novel prose and political and psychological clichés results in an exercise in group pathography that dwells predictably on death, dysfunction and bad luck.

Particularly wearisome is a meandering treatise on the psychological significance of fairy tales, which amounts to an exercise in stating the obvious.