Sentences with phrase «of violent impulses»

Rockwell, a favorite of McDonagh's, transforms his body and gait to play a dimwitted racist cop of violent impulses.

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This is also the play of jealousy, possession, and romance's dark side: If Othello is guilty of anything, it is giving way to a deeply misogynistic violent impulse.

He understands Phineas as a violent supporter of a dangerous, exclusivistic impulse in Judaism that is categorically rejected within the terms of the New Covenant.

Roid rage is considered to be a short psychotic episode produced by the frequent use of anabolic steroids and characterized by a loss of control over ones impulses and a violent explosion of anger.

Yoga can help transform fear into awareness, which could mean transforming violent impulses into an innate sense of empathy.

A brilliant review of this theory proposes that this sequence of unfortunate events may account for the intrusive violent images and impulses that often accompany postpartum mental pathology.

She blames herself for the loss of her parents, a bit of torment that provides Woodley with a chance to add psychological depth to a character who also struggles to contain her most violent impulses.

Someone struggling to overcome the mistakes of their past, only for their violent impulses to re-emerge in the cause of helping someone else, is a staple of fiction.

The costumes too, like Lavette's cassock, are photographed hanging up like a uniform that blankets him from other people but are also a symbol of his own repression as he hides his own violent impulses.

Last year's sleeper hit The Purge was an unusually intelligent thriller starring Ethan Hawke as a security expert whose work is challenged by villains who target him on the one night of the year when laws are suspended and people can express their violent impulses in whatever way they want.

Similarly, the joke - like formulation of Holzer's plaque, or the childish violence of Bruce Nauman's flashing neon Double Poke in the Eye II (1985) helps to expose the hidden racial, sexual and violent impulses underpinning archetypical US humour and idioms.

Norton's large abstract paintings make use of playful, bright palettes to mediate a contained anger and violent impulses imbued into the work, according to the gallery.

Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

From the press release: Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

Family factors, such as the degree of family harmony, whether adolescents have been abandoned by a parent (s), and whether parents engage in destructive or dangerous behaviours, can lead to economic and psychological insecurity, social withdrawal, violent impulses, and other adverse psychological problems and behaviours.

Drawing on clinical studies of borderline personality disorder and violent behavior, he argued that the failure to read and get the implicit meaning of another's actions led to the loss of impulse control, an unstable sense of self, and problematic relationships.

These students have self - confidence, resilience and hopefulness, impulse control, sensitivity and empathy, the ability to resist social pressure and avoid violent and risky behaviors, and the capacity to contribute to the well - being of their schools, families, and communities.