How to Use psychosexual in a Sentence

psychosexual

adjective

• Most recently, she was announced as the lead role in the psychosexual thriller Love Bomb.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
• Now it’s 2022, and Lyne and his soapy psychosexual dramas are back in the public consciousness.
  — Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022
• The upcoming series is based on the iconic 1987 psychosexual thriller of the name, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Through it all, the lawsuit claims that Kids Central failed to get psychosexual evaluations for the troubled boy.
  — Michael Braga, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
• There’s a montage of a character’s psychosexual breakdown that seems to be shot at the actual front door of Epstein’s mansion in New York City.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• This has kinky potential, and director Marc Forster makes a feint in the direction of psychosexual thriller.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• There’s a lot of psychosexual layering to peel back here, in other words, or there would be if Lyne were more fully in control of his material.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• As though its combination of body horror and psychosexual terror wasn't enough to chew on.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 22 May 2017
• All this, plus a special surprise for fans of Alyssa Milano and/or psychosexual intrigue!
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2022
• Soon local bands spotted his postings and asked him to make music videos, charmed by the way the low-tech look of his cartoons heightened the perversity of his adult-only psychosexual dramas.
  — Barbara Pollack, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• The mouse sprinting through this dizzying psychosexual labyrinth is Chloé Fortin (Marine Vacth), a dark-haired 25-year-old beauty with a sad, haunted stare and a history of abdominal pains.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• And in the psychosexual folie à deux between Vernham and Zubak, there’s a canny use of infatuation as a metaphor for a cult of personality.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
• Joubert, 33, claimed the murders were the culmination of years of psychosexual fantasies.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Meat Loaf was showing them and us the path into the provocative, put-on ’80s — Madonna with her three-minute psychosexual cinematic dramas, a generation of hair-metal dudes with longer hair and tighter pants, girls writhing on the hood of a car.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• These specialists are known as 'psychosexual therapists' because they are trained to look at both the mind and body in their approach to treating conditions like vaginismus.
  — Ella Glover, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2022
• The Conformist comes to mind, as the great model for a cinematic mapping of fascism’s psychosexual pathologies.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2021
• And then how does his story become this sort of conspiracy-laden psychosexual occult thriller?
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Her alarmed mother, arriving from New Zealand, dispatched Mansfield to Bavaria for psychosexual treatment before sailing home and cutting her daughter out of her will.
  — Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• The Palme d’Or–winning psychosexual thriller is finally in theaters!
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2021
• The film is a psychosexual thriller brimming with homoeroticism and medical textbook kink.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• Saltburn reigned supreme as the most polarizing film of the year, with some (including EW) hailing it as a perverse psychosexual thriller and others deriding its outré storytelling.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps no one else could have held together Paul Verhoeven’s film: part psychosexual melodrama, part pitch-black comedy, part trashy thriller.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017
• If the troubles of Rama’s mother informed her psychosexual discoveries, those of her father were no less formative.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The show follows their slow descent into psychosexual madness.
  — The Rachel Weisz Gay Index, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
• There is, however, a third shadow team within all of this—that of everyone’s favorite psychosexual not-really-a-couple couple, Roman and Gerri.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2021
• However, the Diocese knew as early as 1968 that Burke had a psychosexual disorder, including while on assignment at a special ministry for students, and teaching high school students, in Grand Junction.
  — Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• It’s a modern-day psychosexual fable of co-dependency and abusive relationships between a young woman and a big bear, to be lensed as a chamber drama with touches of horror and magic realism.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• And just days after the judge had ordered Josh to undergo a psychosexual evaluation and submit to a lie-detector test, with questions about Susan’s disappearance looming.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• There’s a lot of psychosexual wheel-spinning revolving around characters who are, by design, defined exclusively by their trauma.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
• Much more overtly disturbing than the average Hitchcock film, Marnie is a psychosexual power play about manipulation and trauma.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024