Sentence examples for psychological tics from inspiring English sources

At first glance he is an eminently normal guy, average to the point of ponderousness, save for a few small psychological tics.

But Zhang's child narrators serve as apt vessels for the writer-friendly psychological tics that plague most fictional characters, regardless of age.

Her mania is something she needs to be cured of, or freed from — unlike, say, Monk, whose psychological tics are portrayed as the adorable kernel of his genius.

Picking a poor performer might elicit the response: "Why are they recommending this rubbish?"Indeed that bias, along with other psychological tics identified by academics, may be a reason why markets are ultimately inefficient.

Those who thought he could shuffle off his old skin when he realised his prime-ministerial dream, or at least that his psychological tics would not warp his tenure, seem to have been wrong.

But CIA personnel do tend to have psychological tics peculiar to their particular trade, he says.

There are grounds other than personal bitterness for opposing American power and influence, of course, but a distinctive psychological tic has come to mark the world's cosmopolitan sets, which notably include artists.

Or was there some sort of weird psychological tic preventing the Whole Foods customers from seeing the gun because it was too outrageous to be true, e.g. "This is Boulder; that can't be a gun".

Stepwise regression analyses adjusted for age and gender were performed to determine in the GTS sample the relationship between physical and psychological variables (VAS Tic, VAS GTS, SCL-90 R independent variables) and quality of life and functional status (domain scores dependent variables).

As a result of their actions, Clytemnestra and Olivia Morgan's superb Electra develop neurotic tics, symptoms of unbearable psychological pressure: one swats away unseen insects, the other scratches at debilitating itches.

Recent studies have described the psychological, familial, social and educational impact of tics and associated psychopathologies on children with GTS [ 10- 12].