Sentence examples for psyched himself up from inspiring English sources

I always suspected that Ed Miliband psyched himself up for a big speech by watching box sets of The West Wing.

I had a teacher who told me that he psyched himself up in front of the blank computer screen with these words: Down, Down, In.

More recently, the killer of Welsh five-year-old April Jones was found to have psyched himself up for the murder by obsessively re-watching a rape scene from The Last House on the Left a film passed uncut by the BBFC in 2009.

For years, before a performance, Cannavale would psych himself up by saying, "Pacino's coming tonight".

Before trials, he psychs himself up by yelling "Showtime!," in a nod to "All That Jazz".

As he tells it, he had to psych himself up like a prize fighter.

Sitting there silent and dopily contemplative instead of ready and raring, psyching himself up for the day.

Despite his cheeky chappie persona he later confessed to having to psych himself up before going on stage.

The story darkens as it develops, and it becomes increasingly clear that the normally unprepossessing Charlie is ritualistically psyching himself up to commit an act of violence.

Born in San Diego, Williams said that he had been psyching himself up for Buffalo -- the city, not the team -- since the beginning of the week.

The scene in which Rudd psychs himself up for free-love sex by talking dirty to himself in the mirror is outrageously over-the-top – though it caused some tutting at the screening I attended.