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But to emphasize such an idea encourages the escapism that is a natural defense mechanism when we are physically assaulted.
Acute diarrhea is an important defense mechanism that enables your body to expel foreign bacteria and parasites quickly.
Projection, a psychological defense mechanism, consists of attributing to others those attitudes and motives that we ourselves harbor.
Sleepiness can be a psychological defense mechanism, a way of shutting out the world.
As humans we tend not to welcome change, perhaps it is a psychological defense mechanism, I am not sure.
Lupus is a condition whereby the body's defense mechanism goes into overdrive and starts to attack itself.
Ziv has suggested that self-mocking humor is most accurately conceptualized as a defense mechanism.
Children may also show hostility to the stepparent as a defense mechanism against feelings of hurt and betrayal.
On a deeper level, this fault-finding is actually a fear-based defense mechanism that keeps other people away.
The cough is a vital defense mechanism in the protection of airways from unwanted materials.
Though the competitors are indoors they are all hooded, a common self defense mechanism among teenagers today.
But only the spiny puffer combines inflation and pointy spikes in one spectacular defense mechanism.
Both characters possess a rapier wit, and lash out with reckless abandon, and both films wisely recognize their cynicism as a defense mechanism.
The finger-pointing and the blaming, perhaps that's a defense mechanism on Gary's part.
The mucociliary apparatus, normally an important defense mechanism used to clear potential pathogens, can be severely damaged by smoking.
Thus, enzyme neutralizers are a simple defense mechanism that nature has provided certain plants to survive.
Her defense mechanism soon becomes tunnel vision, focused only on the money she's saved for her son's operation.
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.
Among their more unusual behavior, the octopuses employ a unique defense mechanism by tearing off the tentacles of passing Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish.
The symptoms of disease that we see are very often secondary to our defense mechanism, but are exploited on behalf of the bug's capacity to disseminate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It's a sort of defense mechanism, Doc says, against the disappointments of this life.
The crowds delusion of persecution, conspiracy, or oppression is thus a defense mechanism of this nature.
Although the musk is probably distasteful to predators, repellent odor alone seems to be of doubtful value as a defense mechanism.
He wondered if his exasperation was real or merely a defense mechanism.
Late afternoon of the next day, my defense mechanism was ready.
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