Psychodramas

I have a distinct recollection of multiple "psychodramas", including a number of out-and-out scandals involving violations of a wide range of laws, and contempt for an even wider range of customs. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

The objects on view at the Frick are props for a pretend world where the elite shed their public roles, to enact playful psychodramas in eroticized secrecy. ❋ Melik Kaylan (2011)

From the iconography of Nationalism to the publicly managed death of a Reality TV star, cultural psychodramas have always been fantasies – some orchestrated, some spontaneous, most a mixture of both. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Also making its Big Apple debut is "The Theatre Bizarre," a seven-director omnibus of brief, visceral psychodramas that heralds a new wave of genre anthologies, including the 26-part "The ABCs of Death," a series of deadly vignettes due for release next year. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

Or else, he said, "prepare to become the agony aunt for those uninhibited by alcohol, as they process their psychodramas." ❋ Mike Vilensky (2011)

In the ever-escalating political psychodramas of our time, people are more convinced than ever of the correctness of their politics, and they want all of it put in place, now. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Like their father, none has ever so much as flickered on the tabloid gossip radar, or displayed any weakness for the vice and psychodramas commonly associated with Hollywood royalty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes when I look at the past three chief executives, I wonder if we were witnessing not three presidencies but three psychodramas played out on an intensely public stage. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2010)

For writer Sally Friedman, the first day of school meant special outfits and endless mother-daughter psychodramas with that primal scream: I hate my hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was the ever-pressing matter of first-day outfits that meant endless mother-daughter psychodramas acted out in cramped dressing rooms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still, the Unthanks story harbours hints of the compelling internal psychodramas that recall folk spoof comedy A Mighty Wind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders, today urged the party to "move on" from the "factionalism and psychodramas" of the party's past. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twenty-nine already have, feeding, with their losses, a range of psychodramas among their countrymen and women everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)