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defense mechanism
1. I assume things weren't very good because the brain's defense mechanism doesn't filter out good events
2. Why get involved in the struggle between the substrates? Silicon interference in the quest for departed souls evolves every now and again, the superfluid helium substrate evolved defense mechanisms for them before Sol condensed within its body
3. You're seriously saying that this asteroid acts as Earth's natural defense mechanism against hostile aliens? That's insane! There's no such thing as aliens,”
4. Even I can see it is a defense mechanism they have
5. defense mechanisms of denial and repression of their hatred, and then they split the
6. the prenatal phase are precious defense mechanisms that safeguard the life of
7. asked what the possible defense mechanisms were in the situation you are
8. perfection? We will try to create defense mechanisms, but how long can they
9. And this strong front she's been putting up—all those walls, all her barking orders, protestations, emphasis on protocol—was that some kind of mask to hide her own vulnerability? A defense mechanism?
10. The humor she had used as a defense mechanism had weakened and was close to breaking completely
11. Though the purple itikrats could shoot out their blue defense mechanism, they could be easily outmaneuvered by the agile gufders
12. It probably did not have the blue defense mechanism as the others
13. That coupled with the blue defense mechanism of the other Nycarmans, the bieduvels didn’t stand a chance
14. Narcissism is a defense mechanism whose role is to deflect hurt and trauma from the victim's "True Self" into a "False Self" which is omnipotent, invulnerable, and omniscient
15. These self-defense mechanisms need to be broken down if we want to glean all of the nutrients available from the grain without damaging our system in the process
16. How can one not hate this type of mother, and worse, how can one not adopt the defense mechanism of identifying with the aggressor? But we cannot build life on hatred and on defense
17. During prenatal life, we all have to revert to massive defense mechanisms such as repression and splitting, to avoid being overwhelmed by pain or rage or the homicidal or suicidal drives that would have caused a spontaneous abortion
18. It is better to react with defense mechanisms and put off any possible vendetta into the future
19. Otherwise, if both remain intact, they consume our best energies because we must either use them to maintain exhausting defense mechanisms that keep us from sudden explosions of rage and hatred, or to repeatedly attack ourselves, others and life (see Novecento, the protagonist in Tornatore’s film “The legend of the pianist on the ocean”, who chooses to blow up with the ship, and my Cosmo-Artistic interpretation of this movie in “La nascita della Cosmo-Art” {The birth of Cosmo-Art} p
20. The difference between Ulysses on one hand and Oedipus and Novecento on the other lies in the fact that the latter act only on their wounded pride and their defense mechanisms; Ulysses instead is patient, humble and wise and thus he can face his troubled odyssey, go through the pain, resolve his hatred through forgiveness and finally reach Ithaca”
21. Sometimes it can defend itself through defense mechanisms that allow it to repress and deny the pain and hatred that are caused by these sudden or prolonged types of violence
22. “What a defense mechanism!”
23. Landon's magic was designed to emanate from his own body, pulsing outward as a powerful defense mechanism
24. With a limp wrist in the air, Bernie said, “Hello, girlfriend, I’m Bernie and I’m fabulous!” He decided his defense mechanism would be to send a gay message as bluntly, as loudly, and as stereotypically as he could
25. If the person suffers a painful experience, which it is not able to integrate-digest-understand at any point in its growth, then its defense mechanisms come into play
26. In order to prevent that, our defense mechanisms come into play
27. Human defense mechanisms are infinitely creative; each person's body-brain uses them differently
28. These psychological pseudo aids and defense mechanisms may occur in not only the transgressor but also the transgressed as the victim’s way of pain reduction creating further complex issues and problems
29. These pseudo aids and defense mechanisms are, needless to say, compensatory indulgences inappropriately used to facilitate self-healing
30. survive and use it mostly as a defense mechanism
31. Th e following categories were added: the “defense mechanisms”
32. Not only does the smoker go through miserable months of "learning" to smoke, but great effort has to be exerted to suppress the normal body defense mechanisms with each cigarette smoked for as long as they smoke
33. Unfortunately, no matter how hard the smoker tries, the conflict can't be resolved because they have to overlook the intense effort to suppress their body defense mechanisms with each cigarette smoked and also, some very real and unpleasant side effects
34. To me, it was simple: I said I didn’t do it, I knew I didn’t do it, and—I don’t know, defense mechanism?—I just didn’t take it as seriously as I should have
35. You have been trained to build defense mechanisms into your strategies: danger points, break-even points, parameters where you bail-out of your positions to avoid a potential loss
36. Willful denial isn’t exactly a brilliant defense mechanism, I know, but—
