Sentence examples for psychological force of from inspiring English sources
When Freudian psychology became popular, it engendered critical interest in the psychological force of Cervantes's fiction.
Ms. Osipova's Firebird exerts none of the psychological force of the other main characters.
But officials in Mosul, short on manpower, apparently hope the psychological force of the broadcasts will help undermine the insurgency, making its fighters appear weak and encouraging citizens to call up with their reactions or information about those still at large.
What makes that relevant for this discussion is that as humans we are naturally predisposed to the psychological force of scarcity value, which dictates that when something is too available, we inherently value it less.
By then, Bush appointees in the Justice Department had produced numerous memos advising the C.I.A. and the Pentagon that there were virtually no legal impediments to the use of physical and psychological force to break "unlawful enemy combatants".
A Balanchine ballerina is not just an executant; she should be a psychological force, a being of both rigor and allure.
This is the measure of Hawks's remarkable intelligence: he sees relations between people in terms of a remarkable density of implicit angles, of psychological force fields.
Promised use of physical force or power (i.e. psychological force) resulting in fear of physical, sexual, psychological harm or other negative consequences to the targeted individuals or groups.
Each act follows a perfectly modulated dramatic arc, going from episodes of grotesque comedy to climaxes of piercing psychological force, and there are two fabulous coups de théâtre.
Chan and Harris complain, of serotonin, that 'it impairs or short-circuits moral reasoning and induces us to act on the basis of emotion rather than rational consideration of the moral and social consequences of those actions.' Status quo bias may or may not involve emotion, but it's a nice example of a psychological force that 'short-circuits moral reasoning'.
Their appraisal of the medium's psychological force is both studious and foreboding.
