Sentence examples for psyche I from inspiring English sources

They are determined by the interplay between environment and psyche, i.e., between our natural conditions and the inherited, physical "organisation of the animal" (the psyche).

He's not the first man to argue that Do it Yourself (DIY) and working with your hands can be good for the psyche (i.e. books like Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft or Mark Frauenfelder's Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World), but McKay -- founder of the blog The Art of Manliness -- is one of the few who makes this explicit connection between DIY and masculinity.

Maybe in my psyche I would like to be.

When I want to look further into the nation's psyche, I turn to the songs of Jim White.

What this taste in images of dying, waterborne, posh madwomen has to say about the national psyche, I will leave you to judge.

Although running did wonders for my psyche, I missed being around athletes, so I became a reporter at Sports Illustrated, where I worked for almost a decade.

In a dozen incidents during the weeks before Halloween this year, black and white Americans around the country faced a kind of Rorschach test of the national psyche: Is that a funny Halloween ghoul in a noose hanging from your neighbor's tree?

She sees the 2000 election as the culmination of an Oedipal drama or, as she describes it, "the most astonishing and dangerous subordination of American history to particular psyches I've seen".

As I read of northern residents wanting more land for their money (and psyches), I was reminded of Tolstoy's story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" The peasant Pahom, in his desire for more land, strikes a deal with the devil: he will begin walking at sunrise and all the land that he is able to cover throughout the day is his, provided he returns to his starting point by sundown.

In so doing he worms a map in your psyche, and I felt I was trespassing on secret and pagan land.

"I hope I'm at the point now where I have a strong and mature enough psyche that I can take the best of what somebody is trying to tell me and not feel like I need kid gloves," she said before pausing, her voice on the edge of disbelief at the absence of Ms. Parkinson.