Sentence examples for psychological specificity from inspiring English sources

Like several other recent features about gay characters by gay directors, it deploys naturalism – often shooting handheld in found locations and using performances that smack of improvisation – to tell a story rooted in psychological specificity, but with universal resonance.

Deborah Polaski sang the stepmother, and, though she supplied her usual glowering intensity, she competed unsuccessfully with my vivid memories of Anja Silja, who sang this role with ferocious psychological specificity at the Deutsche Oper, in Berlin, last year.

Its belated return is most exciting as the vehicle for the company debut of the experimental director Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose work bristles with fresh ideas and psychological specificity.

And even this simplicity is not ideally exploited: Klimowski has exchanged the elegant collages and stark black and white of his previous work for watery brushwork in greys - too detailed to be allusive, yet too crude to convey much psychological specificity.

My encomium to a classic is hardly needed, but L'Engle's creation of complex but fantasy-tweaked kids facing fantastic settings and situations that are extravagant but coherent, enriched by a heady blend of science and spirituality, is a spark to imagination that's all the more potent for its introspective, psychological specificity.

The dialogue of the film takes place at two levels throughout — it's performed by the actors and pertains with an intense psychological specificity (and complexity) to the movie's characters, who are rendered, as a result, exceptionally vivid and present even in fleeting appearances.

Abstraction lends itself to psychological distance; specificity kills it.

However, in that case, one would expect specific regions in the brain and specific psychological functions to subserve specifically and exclusively self-specificity.

Jenkins burrows deep into his characters' lives and minds with a granular precision, conjured with urgent performances, frank dialogue, and a repertory of tense closeups and hyperkinetic swoops, scalding light and deep darkness, that render Chiron's world with as much psychological as geographical specificity.

Furthermore, the results of the correlational analyses of the divergent validity indicate that the FQLP measures a construct that can clearly be distinguished from general psychological distress or specificities of personality.

A prime virtue of biography is specificity of psychological insight.