No one, for a second, is pushing thoughts of serious criminality aside here, or in many other reaches of the media scene.
Young children may know something about death and see monsters lurking under every bed, but only in middle childhood is the brain capable of practicing so-called terror management, of accepting one's inevitable mortality or at least pushing thoughts of it aside.
"Pushing thoughts out of their heads is a way to overcome the guilt," he said.
It has become almost a clinical truism that intentionally pushing thoughts out of mind results in a paradoxical increase in their frequency either at the time of suppression or subsequently (the 'rebound effect')(Wegner, 1994; Wegner, Schneider, Carter, & White, 1987; for reviews see Dalgleish, Hauer, & Kuyken, 2008; Purdon, 1999; Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000; Rassin, 2005).
Still others simply push thoughts of danger to the back of their mind.
We hear tales of terrible abuse of the elderly, and uneasily push thoughts of our own old age from our minds.
Solid defense and a balanced offensive attack sparked by the deft passing of Mark Jackson put the Toronto Raptors in a 21-point hole and briefly pushed thoughts of personnel moves beneath the surface.
But on one sunny afternoon at the track, as at many other gathering places across Baghdad, the mood was one of almost surreal calm, of everyday concerns that seemed to push thoughts of cruise missiles and smart bombs and helicopter-borne assault forces into the back of people's minds -- or at least into the hinterland of what they were prepared to say.
And he stands by the film itself - the reviews in the US have been "pretty good" (largely pretty awful) and advises that, although he is a fan of Siegel's novel, it is best to push thoughts of the book aside when watching the film.
To get through it, Alpeyrie did his best to push thoughts of friends and family from his mind, and sought to humanize himself to the militants.
