psyche
Example Sentences
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It is the narrator’s own psyche, her ambition to eclipse a ghost and her yearning to be “anything but the timid, foolish creature” she imagines herself to be.
“In a strange way, there was a silver lining for the psyche of the organization,” Burguan said.
From Los Angeles Times
Black Friday sales seem to have come into existence in the 1980s, first as a novelty but then as a powerful tradition that has become deeply ingrained in the American psyche.
We can’t know for certain if the Values Bridge data reveals a slow trend away from the centrality of family in the American psyche or a sudden drop, or why in either case.
When an ecosystem is so ingrained in your psyche, so essential to your culture and so central to the stories you tell about your reason for being, you have no choice but to safeguard it.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
