Miss Bailey had been sent to an eminently good college, and had been instructed long and hard in psychology, so that she knew the psychologic moment when she met it.
Morris turned his large eyes from one to another of his rulers, and Izzie, also good at psychologic moments, stretched out a pointed pink tongue and licked Mrs. Mowgelewsky's cheek.
Fillebrown's declaration that [A]"The process of singing is psychologic rather than physiologic" has nothing tangible to work with.
He was one of the earliest writers of romance to show the younger generation how to found fiction upon deeper psychologic knowledge.
It requires no profound psychologic insight to divine in this odious chimera the deplorable abortion of a fine ideal.
Psychologic elements, sensation, faculties of generation and increase, and creative power, i.
Defoe and Swift may be said to have added some slight interest in analysis pointing towards the psychologic method, which was to find full expression in Samuel Richardson.
Yet the episodic in his hands has ever its use for psychologic envisagement.
But this he was able to escape because of the genuine human interest of his tales and the skill he displayed with psychologic analysis rather than the march of events.
Moreover, again and again in his psychologic analysis there are home-thrusts which bring the blood to the face of any honest person.
His themes are richly human, his psychologic truth (the most modern note of realism) unerring in its accuracy and insight.
With Eliot, we reach the psychologic moment: that deepest truth, the truth of character, exhibited in its mainsprings of impulse and thought, came with her into English fiction as it had never before appeared.
Early or late, he has beyond question pointed out the way to many followers in the psychologic path: his influence, perhaps less obvious than Howells', is none the less undisputable.
In the heyday of his glory Sardou never devised anything more theatrically effective--setting aside consideration of the psychologic imbroglio.
There are many loose psychologicends left untied by the Frenchman, and his conclusion is dramatically ineffectual.
The psychologic depiction of Henschel's downfall is masterly.
The modern psychologic drama was born, the drama in which wills collide, but not the will for trivial things.
She falls easily when the cunning Jean tempts her at the psychologic moment.
Notwithstanding technical and psychologic advances, this effort is not so convincing as Before Sunrise.
His psychologicbent is felt the moment after we see Dagny and Hjördis in conference.
In the preface to Fräulein Julie, Strindberg makes a general confession--for him as for Tolstoy a psychologic necessity.
Of the psychologic value of the study there can be but one opinion.
Cosmopolitan as he is, he would fill his dramas with the incomparable psychologic content of Ibsen; he would be a painter of manners; he would emulate Sardou in his constructive genius.
Ibsen has surmounted perilous obstacles in his dramatic treatment of a purely psychologic subject.
In its psychologic processes, the crowd is more commonplace and more traditional than is the individual.
It has lacked psychologicsynthesis (if we except Degas).
It is a parallel research in modern psychologic truth.
He has the feeling of mystical life and paints the peasantry with astonishing psychologic power.
His very correct feeling for values makes him an excellent painter; but what interests him beyond all, is psychologic expression.
At that moment the criticism which resulted from Taine's theories tried to effect a rapprochement of the artistic and scientific domains in criticism and in the psychologic novel.
It has protested against every literary, psychologic or symbolical element in painting.
Renoir's nude is neither that of Monet, nor of Degas, whose main concern was truth, the last-named even trying to define in the undressed being such psychologic observations as are generally looked for in the features of the clothed being.
For psychologic reasons this judgment becomes especially clear when the work required to lift the lead cube marks the limit of our physical capacity.
This psychologic law of nature is productive of numberless special results.
For several reasons, the great apes, and particularly the chimpanzees and orang-utans, are the most interesting subjects for psychologic study of all the wild-animal species with which the writer is acquainted.
I feel remarkably tough now, and fairly ravenous for my psychologic work.
Are the laws of psychologic sequence less rigid and certain than those laws of physical sequence which determine in material nature every phenomenon, from planet-paths in space to the gathering of dew-drops on a leaf?
The second stage of humanpsychologic evolution is an aberration, a divorce, a parenthesis.
She asked them a number of questions, the purpose of which was to find out what psychologic effect, if any, their knowledge of prostitution and of venereal disease has had on them.
If I have the name I might as well have the game," is a good bit of psychologic wisdom.
Singing is mental rather than physical, psychologic rather than physiologic.
That the obstacles to good speaking and singing are psychologic rather than physiologic.
Everything is judged exclusively from the physiologico-psychologic view-point, while a large quantity of ethnographic items of information on various peoples is woven into the argument, without submitting these items to closer scrutiny.
The minority is small of those with whom physiologic and psychologic dispositions and conditions engender such a difference.
Two simultaneous psychologic facts are so closely bound together that analysis can not separate without mutilating them.
It is not a question then of physical connection between two real conductors but of psychologic association between two series of sensations.
VIII The ordinary definitions which are proper for psychologic time would suffice us no more.
The physiologic-psychologic investigation of the space problem must give the meaning of the words geometric fact, geometric reality.
And the psychologic observations I have been able thus to make seem to me to confirm in their general outlines the views I have given.
In a word, psychologic time is given to us and must needs create scientific and physical time.
We shall understand them better yet if we observe the scientist at work, and first of all it is necessary to know the psychologic mechanism of invention and, in particular, that of mathematical creation.
On that score, psychologic time should be discontinuous.
Therefore two difficulties: (1) Can we transform psychologic time, which is qualitative, into a quantitative time?
Ammonium bromid in half-drachm doses, with rest in bed for psychologic reasons, checked the sneezing.
The aim of the psychologic method is to interpret man from within, in his motives and impulses.
Her realism, her psychologic method, her philosophic theories, her scientific sympathies, she did not derive from him, diligently as she may have studied his books.
The influence of opposite natures on each other, the moulding power of circumstances, and especially the bearings of hereditary impulses, all play a prominent part in this process of psychologic analysis.
In the two directions here indicated lay her superiority over other novelists,--her humanitarian sympathies and her psychologic insight.
The psychologic method may be applied, however, without connection with the positive or evolutionary philosophy.
Personages and incidents play a part in her books not for the sake of the plot or to secure dramatic unity, but for the sake of manifesting the soul, in order that the unfoldment of psychologic analysis may go on.
The psychologic method in literature has also been that of Robert Browning, and he has been as faithful to it as any other.
Psychologic analysis seems out of place in a novel, but with George Eliot it is a chief purpose of her writing.
She followed the bent of her time for analysis and psychologic interpretation.
That Browning can never be read by more than a few, indicates how great are his faults; but in lyric passion, dramatic power and psychologic analysis he is one of the greatest poets of the century.
Defective as this method is in Browning's treatment, it is the true psychologic method, wherein motive and character are developed dramatically and without labored discussion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychologic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
