Sentences with phrase «as a defense mechanism so»

I tried to think of him as Alice's baby and not mine as a defense mechanism so that when I went home empty handed maybe it would not hurt so much.

This is one of my personal favorites; it's something we say as a defense mechanism so that we don't feel bad about not using something that could make us more efficient.

Not exact matches

So rather than learning from our mistakes, we tend to double down and get further entrenched in our position as a defense mechanism.

And so even though a defense of «poets» runs right through Simon and Garfunkel's lyrical oeuvre, in «I Am a Rock,» it looks as if this fellow's love of poetry can be reduced to a mere defense mechanism.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.&raquSo Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.&raquso much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

We feel immunity is too strong a term for this new defense mechanism because these extracellular pathogens can survive and even sexually reproduce on resistant hosts, and so we refer to it as «defense».»

As with any relationship, it is important to hold space and let down our defense mechanisms, our «metal armoring,» so we can be authentic with our partner.

Prince, as Moonee, has a sharp mouth (her defense mechanisms have been well - honed) and a maddening smile, the sort that admits guilt while also saying, «I'm a cute kid so you can't do anything about it.»

Hurt people are fearful that they're going to be hurt again, so as a defense mechanism, they hurt other people in order to keep themselves walled off.

So when that trader experience a series of losing trades, fear builds up as a defense mechanism rather than confidence.

In so far as those on the political left and right understand to some extent that human expansion is destroying the biosphere — they know about global warming — it would appear that compartmentalization is among the most important pyschological defense mechanisms.