psyche - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • explore: An insightful piece exploring the psyches of great men weighed down.. .
  • understand: That research is no substitute for understanding the human psyche.
  • enter: But if we are supposed to enter the psyche of Sellers, maybe that's the point.

Adjective modifier

  • collective: BB brings people together by showing up the flaws in the collective psyche.
  • twisted: Would his masterpiece about the depths of one man's twisted psyche have been celebrated in any other decade?
  • fragile: Each acknowledgment of England's improvement is wrapped around a spiky jibe which could wound any fragile psyche in Vaughan's team.
  • troubled: He is helped by young cadet Poe, who reveals an agile mind and a troubled psyche.
  • human: The pagan impulse is deeply embedded in the human psyche.
  • American: The question now is whether the American psyche has the balls to look into its internal shadows its deeply riven social unity.

Noun used with modifier

  • world: By this means, the world psyche maximizes its experience.
  • group: In deeper levels the dividing line, if any, between own and group psyches is very hazy.

Possessives

  • nation: In orthodox history Henry VIII is regarded as a great king, yet he was a tyrant who severely damaged the nation's psyche.
  • person: Also, dreams usually tell a very large amount about the state of a person's psyche, and recurring dreams are particularly telling.
  • man: This, as said before, is man's psyche, his mortal soul.

Preposition: of

  • nation: Here we examine the ways the psyches of nations have been damaged.
  • person: Okay, so a psi-moon shapes itself to the psyche of a person.
  • man: Its roots run deep in the psyche of man.
  • people: The September 11 attack on the World Trade Center had a tangible impact on the psyche of the American people.

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