Sentence examples for psychological backgrounds from inspiring English sources

In the 1950s, a trend of "adult" Westerns appeared in which characters were given psychological backgrounds to explain their motivations, as in The Left Handed Gun, in which an angst-ridden Billy the Kid gets his revenge after losing his father figure.

"He came from a tough psychological background," Laura's brother said.

We looked into their psychological background, and came up with some interesting data.

"But you have to understand we come from a psychological background now.

I read scientific textbooks about poison and a lot of psychological background on why people would poison.

He clarified many of the sentences, added psychological background to the characters and westernised the Japanese architecture.

Manifestly, of course, many of the terrorists who have struck in Europe in recent months have had, at least, a fragile psychological background.

That history is somewhat unusual for mass psychogenic illness, which is not generally thought to target people with a particular psychological background.

This grim film has none of the extravagance of "The Executioner's Song," but goes instead for explaining the psychological background that motivates both the killer and the brother who can save him from execution.

I have given a psychological background to my departure because it helps to explain why some of us left our respective islands; and why England, at that time, was the obvious choice of destination.

** Shawn is one of the few American playwrights to eschew psychological background as a means of explaining character; he prefers the audience to draw its own conclusions from the characters' behavior.