Sentence examples for psychic struggles from inspiring English sources

As Saint Laurent's psychic struggles made him seem tragic, however, Berge's rise, as a cultural figure and political confidant, made him seem as if he was settling an old score with his former lover.

While Mr. Tolins can turn a smart, jabbing one-liner proficiently, he ultimately does not have much new to tell us about the workings of Broadway or the psychic struggles of the artist as a young man or an established egoist.

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

Together — well, in parallel — they've spent the last few years remaking hip-hop's center, emphasizing melody, feeling and post-street virtues while stuck in a subliminal Oedipal psychic struggle.

Wrapping a bossa nova interpretation of Billy Joel's wordy "Summer, Highland Falls" inside the Jobim classic, "Meditation," she clarifies the essence of Mr. Joel's song as an internal psychic struggle between moods, or in the composer's words, between "sadness and euphoria".

Distinguishing between the two has long been a psychic struggle here, though the unqualified success of the Nasher itself — a gift to Dallas from the shopping-mall magnate and local philanthropist Raymond D. Nasher, housed in a flawless, quietly self-confident building by Renzo Piano — suggests that Dallas might finally be getting there.

Over several verses, Ovid depicts the psychic struggle Myrrha faces between her sexual desire for her father and the social shame she would face for acting thereon.

There's nothing in this book that Dev doesn't know, I mean he came to see me in the Mental Marriott so it's not like he didn't know that I was a drunk or didn't know that I was sober or didn't know that his Dad and I divorced after considerable psychic struggle.

Yet those who know her say that questions about Sergeant Lannaman's death remain unsettled, and go well beyond psychic agonies that she struggled with her entire life.

Her dialogues are about power – about threat and struggle: a deluded psychic and her client; a Tudor courtier and his would-be queen.

The play does not diminish the actors in the struggle by exploring its psychic costs; on the contrary, to see them as troubled, sometime troublesome human beings makes their achievement shine ever brighter.