Sentence examples for psychic rather than from inspiring English sources

The trouble is that finding the right volunteer job can sometimes seem as difficult as obtaining a salaried position — and with only psychic, rather than financial, rewards.

Even a writer who can assume a readership inured to every possible confession requires courage and the confidence of knowing and accepting her deepest self to acknowledge a sexual interrelation — although one that is not improper, psychic rather than physical — between parent and child.

Why would people go to a psychic rather than a therapist?

Although obviously of importance in theological terms, there are also researchers who take some of these ideas seriously today, although most couch them in psychic rather than spiritual terms (e.g. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research).

"I think what it hurts more is our reputation, and it's the psychic things rather than dollars.

The novel was published in Britain as "Pie-kah" (the pronunciation of Miri's affliction), a less sensational title that grounds the narrative in the girl's sad psychic state rather than in its supernatural elements.

He is taken to the sewers and forced to consume snake venom; he sees visions, but insists they are from his psychic gift rather than from the venom.

Some hints of the techniques Joyce frequently employed in later works, such as stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and references to a character's psychic reality rather than to his external surroundings, are evident throughout this novel.

Some Sardinians may still adhere to a more traditional understanding of psychic suffering rather than endorse modern explanations of mental health problems in terms of biological or psychological mechanisms.

The difficulty in understanding and elaborating an event adds an important diagnostic value to this criterion because it assigns priority to a person's individual psychic response rather than to the effects found in "almost anyone".

Zimmerman's charming cartoons illustrate rather than dramatize psychic struggle.