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  • noun Plural form of dynamism.

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Examples

  • We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we may even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • He felt the traction in each tire, not a chorus, but the voice of each as the expression of a personality; he felt the play between torque and transmission even in the crude containment of the automatic gear shift as these two dynamisms bartered their way through the complex transaction.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • The stories here are controlled, powerful dynamisms, and they live on after one has put the book down, and expand in one's mind, and keep on expanding.

    The World We Live In Eisenberg, Deborah 2009

  • He felt the traction in each tire, not a chorus, but the voice of each as the expression of a personality; he felt the play between torque and transmission even in the crude containment of the automatic gear shift as these two dynamisms bartered their way through the complex transaction.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He felt the traction in each tire, not a chorus, but the voice of each as the expression of a personality; he felt the play between torque and transmission even in the crude containment of the automatic gear shift as these two dynamisms bartered their way through the complex transaction.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Less concern has been delivered upon passion as a principle of vitality in poetics, as part of the very structures and dynamisms of poems.

    Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

  • The motivational model of alcohol craving focused my interest on the concept of reward and pleasure, in the sense of brain dynamisms, and the factors that enhance or diminish them.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • The motivational model of alcohol craving focused my interest on the concept of reward and pleasure, in the sense of brain dynamisms, and the factors that enhance or diminish them.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • There are only three great energies in the universal life, which is always individual and which yet sways all the physical forces as well as the vital energy; and then the two great dynamisms of the sun and the moon.

    Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

  • I also believe that the Robot Cultists in their very extremity provide unusually distilled illustrations of the associations, dynamisms, guiding figures and so on that also play out in more mainstream neoliberal "globalism" and "development" discourse, and hence put us in a better position to understand the irrationality and authoritarianism of that discourse.

    amor mundi 2009

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