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But to get to a deeper level of perception, he needed an indirect route into the psyche of the voter, something that would yield more profound insights.

The new standard is in its own way a narrow and bigoted one, unequal to the complexity of the human psyche, its apparently unlimited capacity for good and for evil.

Notwithstanding the enormous size of many of his paintings, Mr. Rosenquist is a haiku master of the American psyche.

And the label "Comeback City" is but a memory, as the city psyche bobs between hope and despair.

After the solo piano works, Schumann's songs offer the most direct window into his psyche, and the best are the "Liederkreis" and "Dichterliebe" cycles, settings of Heine poetry steeped in romantic yearning, outright rejection and other evocations of unrequited love.

Thus far, they've displayed a fragile psyche that is damaged far too easily.

His own psyche interested him not at all, and neither did other people's, including mine.

2, which is afforded the luxury to quietly unfold and carefully elaborate upon its cinematic psyche.

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