Sentences with phrase «into psychological warfare»

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson («Boogie Nights,» «There Will Be Blood»), «Phantom Thread» is a romantic drama with an almost obsessive focus on its two main characters and their relationship, one that dips more than a toe into psychological warfare.

The full - length trailer for Foxcatcher, which you can watch above, outlines how the relationship between the pair started off as seemingly healthy and mutually beneficial - with du Pont becoming the paternal figure that Schultz always wanted - before, over time, it descended into psychological warfare and eventually, physical violence.

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It can, however, block meaningful social change and punish «enemies» by integrating economic, psychological, diplomatic, and military aspects of warfare into a comprehensive strategy that includes suffering in its definition of victory.

The CIA manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, which encouraged the contras to assassinate «government officials and sympathizers,» may have been produced in order to encourage the contras to shift from the phase of warfare conducted through generalized terror into a new phase of targeted terror against civilians who were committed to the revolutionary process.

Low - intensity conflict integrates economic, psychological, diplomatic, and military aspects of warfare into a comprehensive strategy to protect «U.S. valuables» against the needs and demands of the poor.

Preachers and ministers use everything in the psychological warfare manual to put fear into your hearts through the use of hell and satan.

However, South Korean border - area residents expressed fear that North Korea would interpret the Christmas displays as «psychological warfare» — attempting to bring Christianity over the border into the Communist - run north — and feel compelled to retaliate militarily.

Psychological warfare works when it works: if it invigorates your supporters, demoralizes your opponents or forces them into an error, its effects can extend far beyond any immediate damage.

A film crafted via the parallels of choice, relationships and kinship, we are drawn into a subtle maze of psychological warfare that sees our Theseus, Mike Banning, set against a nuclear - armed Minotaur.

In Teller, he finds a pupil just obsessive enough to take the challenge and fight back, leading to an unrelenting game of psychological warfare between the two characters that takes the film into dark and unexpected places.