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Plus there are bunch of endless mind-games during the whole procedure.
An update Darwi 2009
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Private Midnight has two stories going on: one is the case that Ritter needs to solve, and the horrifically mangled bodies keep turning up; the other is a strange introduction to a type of therapist who uses elaborate mind-games combined with dominatrix-style sex acts, all with the apparent goal of getting Ritter to pour out his heart and his past, and move on with his used up life.
“Private Midnight” by Kris Saknussemm (Overlook, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Private Midnight has two stories going on: one is the case that Ritter needs to solve, and the horrifically mangled bodies keep turning up; the other is a strange introduction to a type of therapist who uses elaborate mind-games combined with dominatrix-style sex acts, all with the apparent goal of getting Ritter to pour out his heart and his past, and move on with his used up life.
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Plus there are bunch of endless mind-games during the whole procedure.
Archive 2009-05-01 Darwi 2009
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The construct is as artificial as all hypotheses in science are (just mind-games, though it's arguable that those are actually "artificial"), precisely as artificial as any hypothesis you could offer as to where the edge of evolution resides.
Behe's Test 2008
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They're playing mind-games with the Democrats again.
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He finds it hard to believe that here he is, he Rendine, playing mind-games with Fergus Holinger.
Mind Games 2010
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But the solution offered, again, seems unbearably puerile: a system of piously commemorative mind-games and childish euphemisms.
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel James Lasdun 2010
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Of course this is a difficult line for governments to tread — the pitfalls and reputational risks range from being accused of being overbearingly paternalistic to engaging in Orwellian mind-games when they should be dealing with a real economic crises.
Do We Want to Be Nudged? Bobby Duffy 2010
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If these mixed messages are part of a larger rope-a-dope strategy to obtain some kind of meaningful healthinsurance reform that actually guarantees every American medical coverage regardless of economic status or preexisting condition, then the head-spinning contradictions and mind-games are worth it.
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