How To Use Defense mechanism In A Sentence

  • There are different definitions of the term, but one of them refers to a defense mechanism in which one projects one's undesirable qualities onto someone else.
  • The finger-pointing and the blaming, perhaps that's a defense mechanism on Gary's part.
  • The horror you feel at "moral decay" is, to the Elders of Sodom, quite self-evidentally an affective defense mechanism, designed to function as a barrier to anything that might "corrode" your convictions. An Open Letter to John C. Wright
  • Personally I think that a musician or for that matter every artist is an adventurer, so there is no inbuilt defense mechanism that stops you from exploring.
  • And since passiflora have evolved to synthesize their own special brand of natural cyanide as a defense mechanism to keep from getting eaten the caterpillars have evolved to incorporate this cyanide into their own defense mechanisms. Archive 2009-06-01
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  • Feels more like a dream, & somewhere in the back of my befogged mind, I understand that this is good—that I have, at the very least, some defense mechanisms still left in place. Hollywood Savage
  • Thus, enzyme neutralizers are a simple defense mechanism that nature has provided certain plants to survive.
  • Though the competitors are indoors they are all hooded, a common self defense mechanism among teenagers today.
  • Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an “analysand”, and a psychoanalyst. Five People Born on May 6 | myFiveBest
  • Acute diarrhea is an important defense mechanism that enables your body to expel foreign bacteria and parasites quickly.
  • Sure, management traditionally says such defense mechanisms are designed to foil a lowball tender offer.
  • Both characters possess a rapier wit, and lash out with reckless abandon, and both films wisely recognize their cynicism as a defense mechanism.
  • So it ` s a defense mechanism, what he ` s doing, and he ` s telling the press that the children are deathly terrorized, and that word "deathly" says a lot. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
  • The inkblot is known as a ‘projective’ test in that it assumes the patient will project certain ideas on to the picture that would normally be lost in defense mechanisms.
  • Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. Observing German(s)...
  • Such gradual accumulation overcomes our defense mechanisms and often as not causes renal failure.
  • The use of defense mechanisms to protect self is a normal human reaction. Educational Psychology in a Changing World
  • We almost didn't notice the accessory the first time we watched the video -- after someone mentioned Major Nelson in a Speedo, our brains went briefly catatonic, which is our reflexive defense mechanism when faced with unsettling mental images. Joystiq [Xbox]
  • The purpose of this research paper is to provide information and defense mechanism against the denial of service (DOS) attacks & distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), using internet control message protocol (ICMP). A Research made on Web Vulnerabilities by Sedulity Team
  • Human intuition and human smarts are far better defense mechanisms than any particular technology supplies.
  • Flaonoids are produced as a defense mechanism that can be triggered by nutrient deficiency.
  • On a deeper level, this fault-finding is actually a fear-based defense mechanism that keeps other people away.
  • While many scientists are trying to prevent the onset of a cancer defense mechanism known as autophagy, other researchers are leveraging it in a new therapy.
  • Although the burrows with the trapdoor provide protection against most natural enemies e.g. wasps and centipedes, some are still able to invade the burrows and additional defense mechanisms are used to overcome this problem.
  • But only the spiny puffer combines inflation and pointy spikes in one spectacular defense mechanism.
  • I guess it's some kind of human body defense mechanism, keeping my eye closed to reduce the pain and ease the ‘healing process’.
  • Natural cytotoxicity, assumed to be an important defense mechanism in viral, neoplastic, and parasitic diseases, was also reduced. Effects of changes in ultraviolet radiation in the Arctic
  • Cro-Magnon cult culture defense mechanism delusion demography developmental psychology double standard of sexual behavior dowry ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph ego egocentric egomania egotism empathy empty nest encounter group 17. Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
  • The phenomenon - known as "backfire" - is "a natural defense mechanism to avoid that cognitive dissonance. Boston.com Top Stories
  • But neither sunscreens nor the body's defense mechanism work all of the time.
  • Denial, displacement, intellectualization, fantasy, compensation, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression and sublimation were the defense mechanisms Freud identified.
  • Because carcinogenesis is a complex multistage process associated with the accumulation of critical genetic alterations, effective defense mechanisms are necessary to prevent the manifestation of DNA damage.
  • Increased amounts of epicuticular waxes and UV-absorbing compounds, such as flavonoids, and smaller leaf/needle surface area are plant defense mechanisms against UV-B radiation. Effects of ultraviolet-B on forest vegetation in the Arctic
  • The honeybee immune system, like other species of holometabolous insects, depends on two main categories of defense reactions: the cell-mediated responses such as phagocytosis and encapsulation of foreign objects, and cell-free defense mechanisms represented by the anti-microbial immune proteins" (Response of the Apoidea to fungal infections by Glinski and Buczek - PDF format). Bee nonsense

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