Sentence examples for psychic collapse from inspiring English sources

Later, when Brünnhilde grapples with Wotan's psychic collapse, Goerke conveyed first a hurt incomprehension and then a commiserating rage.

What makes the show richer are its weird swerves into the landscape of Dave's physical and psychic collapse.

To perform it properly means that by the time a singer gets to the end — to that final, shredding "I really need you tonight!" — she should be in a state of complete psychic collapse.

The author, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is also the sole performer in a family affair that finds the actress's sister, Isobel, as the expert sound designer of a piece in which aural suggestions of the world beyond are crucial to the psychic collapse on view before us.

The architect of "Rectilinear", so wedded to minimalism that he builds a house to correct the lack of commitment he has detected in the buildings of Adolf Loos, drives away his wife then suffers a sudden resurgence of humanity followed by psychic collapse.

The perverted uncle and the pious mother may be conventional enough; McBride's relentless examination of a teen-age girl's psychic and moral collapse is anything but.

That puts him within range of the actual years of Shakespeare's capricious, fulminating monarch, who jostles age against wisdom only to achieve belated clarity at moments of psychic and physical collapse.

"The Vanishers," the fourth novel by Heidi Julavits, a founding editor of The Believer, follows Julia, a troubled young woman who is training to become a psychic and suffers a collapse after an altercation with her teacher.

This fourth novel by a founding editor of The Believer follows Julia, a troubled young woman who is training to become a psychic and suffers a collapse after an altercation with her teacher.

By The New Yorker March 28 , 2012"The Vanishers," the fourth novel by Heidi Julavits, a founding editor of The Believer, follows Julia, a troubled young woman who is training to become a psychic and suffers a collapse after an altercation with her teacher.

For him the semblance of a shared Starbucks experience masks endemic computer-generated isolation, a condition that has prompted psychic and ethical breakdowns that go well beyond the collapse of community.