subconsciousness

Example Sentences

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“It’s like some national subconsciousness that resurfaces,” said Geremie R. Barmé, a scholar in New Zealand who studies dissent in China.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

One especially sumptuous song, “Enzo Gabriel,” cites the most popular name for newborn boys in Brazil in 2018 and 2019 as evidence of a national hivemind, or maybe even a collective subconsciousness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2021

The line could hardly describe Kaufman better, all the more so because it’s spoken by a character that may or may not be a figment of subconsciousness.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2020

Here we had the US president in not just a stream but a full torrent of subconsciousness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2020

So the subconsciousness of the boy, balked and miserable, awaits its time, and finds its satisfaction when the boy is asleep and his moral censor has relaxed its control.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton