Sentence examples for psychological import from inspiring English sources

Shifts in scale are also important, and have psychological import.

His sculptures mine the contradictions of air travel, its physical reality and psychological import.

Lying is not just a moral category, it has psychological import.

Rorem's scores seem, by comparison, modest and naïve, but this description applies only to their surface, and not to their emotional or psychological import.

(This section does feature a welcome appearance by Val Kilmer as a useless martinet Army officer.) As do a number of other movies this season, "The Missing" uses the power of mysticism to add a level of psychological import.

With his concepts of "screen memories" and Nachträglichkeit ("deferred action," or "afterwardness"), Freud described how memory is a palimpsest, a work of constant reconstruction, and how subsequent experiences can alter both the content and the psychological import of previous memories.

The most influential pieces of psychological doctrine imported from the Arabs probably were Avicenna's theory of estimation (wahm), his theory of potential, acquired and active intellects, and Averroes' thesis that there is one intellect for all human beings.

This anticipation on the part of the living of the experience of dying has been a factor of immense psychological and social import.

A scholar such as Herder or a poet-dramatist such as Schiller drew lessons of moral, psychological, and philosophical import from the wisdom found in the subculture of das Volk.

This may seem like a purely virological point, but the persistence of HIV debris (even if not 'replication competent') may have psychological and social import.

Psychology – psychologist – psychological.