How to Use psychosexual in a Sentence
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Most recently, she was announced as the lead role in the psychosexual thriller Love Bomb.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
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Now it’s 2022, and Lyne and his soapy psychosexual dramas are back in the public consciousness.
—Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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This has kinky potential, and director Marc Forster makes a feint in the direction of psychosexual thriller.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 25 Oct. 2017
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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
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As though its combination of body horror and psychosexual terror wasn't enough to chew on.
—Corey Atad, Esquire, 22 May 2017
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All this, plus a special surprise for fans of Alyssa Milano and/or psychosexual intrigue!
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Joubert, 33, claimed the murders were the culmination of years of psychosexual fantasies.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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And then how does his story become this sort of conspiracy-laden psychosexual occult thriller?
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
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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
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The Palme d’Or–winning psychosexual thriller is finally in theaters!
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2021
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The film is a psychosexual thriller brimming with homoeroticism and medical textbook kink.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The show follows their slow descent into psychosexual madness.
—The Rachel Weisz Gay Index, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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