superego

Example Sentences

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As I previously stated, it's his id, his ego and his superego.

From Salon

“I thought I’d put the superego aside, and just enjoy the simple pleasures of photography. This project essentially began with portraits of orchids.”

From New York Times

They represent a fundamental paradox of the television and motion picture industry: the smooth, reflective surface of the American superego, set at an increasingly uncomfortable angle against the people who create it.

From Los Angeles Times

In other words, Edmundson has a super superego to offer us.

From Washington Post

Winter, a pregnant immigration lawyer, is the family’s superego, based in the Providence fixer-upper she shares with her fiance, Zeno, an undocumented Mexican contractor and the son of an academic.

From Washington Post