Sentence examples for psychological justification from inspiring English sources

With Dancing on the Edge, though, the glacial pace never feels to have such narrative or psychological justification.

Hideous events occur with less psychological justification than they'd require in a Hollywood blockbuster -- there's not even a difficult childhood to account for the psychopathic Dmitri, and the novel's bloodbath of a climax is frankly willful.

What began as a minority sect's rhetorical strategy, a way of defining and asserting itself, became a majority religion's moral, and even psychological, justification for persecution: first of Jews, then of Romans and of heretics — of all opponents, real or imagined.

In their very form, these novels, in which conflict finds neither psychological justification nor narrative resolution, register "Indian problems" with a cartographer's watchtower remove: Narayan is showing us the shape of a people being strangled by the contour of their land.

Later contributors to the corpus of ideas that underlie the processes of teacher education continued to provide philosophical, sociological, and psychological justification for particular views of the nature of education and of teaching, and also had a greater or lesser influence on the methods to be employed in classroom and school.

As thus, it plays a big role in the psychological justification for defecting from competitors.

Though kleptomania diminished as a credible diagnosis within a few decades of its invention, other psychological justifications took its place.

Behind such tortured psychological self-justification lies an aesthetic consideration familiar to anyone who has ever gone fishing: the experience he actually went through wasn't nearly as compelling as the one he wrote down.

But don't underestimate the role of that sort of psychological self-justification.

All these parameters were in play in the participants in this study, so there seemed to be justification for psychological intervention.

Psychological benefit is used as justification in clinical discussions but there are no measures of mental well being amongst the outcomes or psychologists amongst the authors.