Sentence examples for psyche in which from inspiring English sources

The academy-razzing double nude "Venus and Psyche" — in which a masculine-looking brunette leans with an equivocal expression (hatred?

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Puffin £6.99, pp211 Meg Rosoff's impressive debut blurs the boundary between youth and adult fiction, the result being a compelling exploration of the teenage psyche, in which the backdrop of the Third World War offers a poignant setting for the chronicle of protagonist Daisy's coming of age.

In his 1959 classic, Love and Death in the American Novel, he called the friendship between Indian Chingachgook and pioneer Natty Bumppo in Fenimore Cooper's seminal novels 'an archetypal relationship which haunts the American psyche', in which 'two lonely men bend together over a carefully guarded fire in the virgin heart of the American wilderness'.

The academy-razzing double nude "Venus and Psyche" — in which a masculine-looking brunette leans with an equivocal expression (hatred? lust?) over a sumptuous, sleeping blonde — was submitted to the Salon of 1864 and, though in a close call, was also rejected, for indecency.

In "La Mortella", we begin with a woman longing for a child, which turns into a variant of monstrous birth, and then into an inversion of the Cupid and Psyche theme, in which it is the female lover who comes unseen by night.

This water is a symbol not, as so often, of the psyche but of the "floating world" in which that psyche finds itself.

But Rosemary Hollis, a professor of Middle East studies at City University London, said Mr. Khamenei's attack on Britain may have been prompted by something more basic to the Iranian psyche, an old shibboleth in which Britain remains the dark force behind American power.

Visceral in its emotional content, it subjects ideas of form and genre to drastic scrutiny in its demands that we view experience as part of a wider cosmic drama in which soul and psyche are prey to forces barely within our control.

Adriaen de Vries, Rudolf's enigmatic court sculptor, cast a weird and wild tour de force, "Psyche Borne Aloft by Putti," in which a voluptuous woman, buoyant as a parade float, is wafted up to Mount Olympus by little angels.

Furthermore, the Oedipus concept in psychoanalysis, they say, institutes a theater of desire in which the psyche is embedded in a family drama closed off from the extra-familial and extra-psychic forces at work in society.

In a statement, the artist shares the fact that her ideas behind the exhibit Gentle Existential, stemmed from a dream in which her psyche and heart diverged.