Sentences with phrase «psychological truth»

His proactive tips carry weight because they are grounded universal psychological truths.

His words testify to the strong psychological truth that people tend to seek out and feel best with what is familiar.

Actually, this popular notion has psychological truth behind it.

Drawing upon the conventions of Hollywood melodrama (the film has many similarities to Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows), Fassbinder uses dramatic and visual excess to push everyday events to extremes, achieving a degree of political and psychological truth not accessible through mere social realism.

Emerson's familiar statement, «I am a part of every man whose path has crossed mine,» states a basic psychological truth — viz., that our relationships become a part of us.

Crime writers are as concerned as are other novelists with psychological truth and the moral ambiguities of human action.

In personal sessions, Annie enlightens single men and women about the intricacies of modern gender dynamics and offers time - tested dating principles based on psychological truths.

«Whether any of the film's moments are entirely true, totally fabricated, or representative of some larger, psychological truth doesn't matter when you're in the hands of this consummate visual artist.»

One of the few psychological truths educators and psychologists agree upon states that the most learning occurs when an optimal match between the learner's current understanding and the challenge of new learning material has been carefully engineered.

Hypnotic, beautifully written, this mesmerizing novel explores the corrosive effect of evil — and how painful psychological truths long buried within a family can corrupt the present and, through courage and understanding, lead to healing and renewal.

As in most of her portraits, Neel uses exaggerations and distortions associated more with caricature than with fine art to explore psychological truth.

By twisting the everyday into weirder and more ambiguous shapes, Cooper seeks to root out deeper psychological truths and provide deadpan commentary on our contemporary world.

Ernest Hemingway spoke of a universal psychological truth, when in A Farewell to Arms, he suggested that you grow stronger in your broken places, much like a wound that heals itself by growing a protective scab.

What St. John gives us is the psychological truth of The One who was God and Man in the unity of One Person, and gives us the work, teaching, claim, and impact of Him who was both, at one and the same time the Christ of Faith and the Christ of History.

In an interview several years ago she discussed the conventions of the detective story in which «the good triumph and the bad are punished... This is one reason why, for some people, the detective story — however good it is — will always be classified as a subliterary form: because of the contrivances, and because, in the past, psychological truth was too often sacrificed to the demands of plot» (Times Literary Supplement.

In that portion of our century when men and nations knew trouble, sin and guilt, we needed to receive this theological truth of the Reformation, just as earlier the psychological truth needed to be heard.

With its ability to capture and reshape the surface of reality, cinema is uniquely equipped to probe the complicated relationship between the visible world and the emotional and psychological truths that lie beneath it.