Mind games ("yourself another self") and heavy metal ("squeeze nickel").
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UFC star Conor McGregor is renowned for his mind games.
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Never mind Lamborghini's mind games; the Centenario is a magnificent thing.
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Some works don't seem developed; others are just impenetrable mind games.
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The older and more stable Satya Yugans resisted Almena's mind games.
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You have no time for playing games today, Leo, especially mind games.
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Do you really need to play such intense mind games with us?
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For the record, these kinds of mind games are not standard protocol.
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There has been no need for the soap opera of mind games.
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The mind games he weathered for more than a decade are over.
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Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are playing mind games with us now.
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The band's cover of John Lennon's "Mind Games" is a little more interesting.
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A man who plays sick mind games with the women in his house?
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You can overspend online, too Shopping mind games don't just happen in stores.
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The girls have been through a lot — mysteries, mind games, and occasionally class.
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Kisenosato, perhaps through his usual mind games, forced a slow looking Hakuho out.
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The mind games this would do to somebody… That is so completely not OK!
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Bruce knew this wasn't possible, because of the catastrophic potential of his mind games.
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It's a cruel exercise, and a good illustration of Negan's mind games at work.
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I need more coffee if I'm going to play these mind games this early.
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It's a grueling day of mind games that leaves contestants with a special bond.
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No mind games, no time games, at least as far as we could tell.
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All the mind games being played come to a head each week at Tribal Council.
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There are no in-your-face psychological mind games or testing of one's personal stamina.
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If someone is playing mind games with you, it's just that to them: a game.
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Kisenosato has lost more than a few fans because of his love of mind games.
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These sorts of mind games are exactly how and why companies like Apple design product launches.
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Philip's mind games are like a psychological magician's final act; you blink, and poof, he's gone.
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He also talked trash during intense sparring sessions to get Aldo used to potential mind games.
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Check out the chess-themed series announcement below, and get ready for some real mind games.
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He knows where the real threat is; he knows it's not about politics or mind games.
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I'm not engaging enough to entice someone on my own — there must be mind games involved.
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Instead of mind games, moving your body is among the most helpful things you can do.
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The genre-bending horror series is more mind games than gore, and more '80s nostalgic than tragic.
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" She said that federal officials "just keep playing political, legal mind games with people and people's lives.
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It might play Magritte-like mind games with the diner, exploiting the slippage between appearance and reality.
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He was upfront and honest about what he wanted, and he never played mind games with me.
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Sometimes they are wise to it, but it's still incredibly hard to deal with their mind games.
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"I think she's a striker that defends some takedowns well and plays mind games," she tells Fightland.
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"I know he's trying to play these mind games, but they don't work with me," said Dos Anjos.
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They try to mentally play those mind games, basically so that you wouldn't be able to perform physically.
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The term dungeon crawler usually calls to mind games about exploring a dark place crawling with dangerous beings.
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He's more obsessed with playing strange mind games with fellow contestant Kenny King than speaking to Bachelorette Rachel.
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The campaign mind games had begun before the actual contest, like fisticuffs at a boxing-match weigh-in.
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Frank and Russian President Viktor Petrov have been playing mind games with each other since they first met.
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Wednesday is a warm-up for the tricks of Thursday and the mind games of Friday and Saturday.
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Even less kempt, Walton Goggins gets to play an angry, avenging figure, given to oratory and mind games.
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Or, he's just playing mind games with the kid now that he knows the proper way to intimidate people.
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He said he felt guilty because he had played "mind games" with a prison psychologist who eventually killed himself.
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BLVK JVCK f/Dyo "Mind Games" So this is a track by a production duo, and the music is catchy.
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As is the case in most "Saw" movies, the protagonist finds himself increasingly involved with the murderer's dangerous mind games.
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He's a contender for the informal title of world's best jungler for his precision play and next-level mind games.
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He constantly attempted to control me, restrict my movement, and played mind games which drained me and left me exhausted.
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It may look like fun and Jedi mind games, but the choreographed chaos of a lightsaber battle takes intense preparation.
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This is still one of the best balanced, most deeply engaging mind games I've ever played, and I love its gameplay.
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You go through all these mind games before you allow yourself to get to the anger you feel deep down inside.
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To this day, Eubank still highlights Collins' mind games as one of the key factors in the Irishman's victories over him.
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They're in the skin trade, but they're not like the pimps who control their women through mind games and physical threats.
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"Our keepers entertain them all day long with mind games, riddles, puzzles, and other stuff to train their intelligence," he added.
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The International Spy Museum likewise plays mind games with its visitors, presenting the veneer of objectivity without explicitly naming its biases.
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Anchored by a multifaceted performance by Ms. Gugino, the movie plays as many mind games with the audience as with Jessie.
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Hansen attempted mind games from behind in both sprints, thrusting and parrying to try to knock the Adelaide native off her perch.
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Todd: And yet I can't help but feel a little exhausted by the endless mind games and reality distortions and the like.
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Known today as "purity culture," it was a meticulously designed system of rules and mind-games aimed at curbing adolescent Christian libidos.
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The group includes the world No. 1 Jason Day, who lacks the inclination and the energy for mind games and intimidation tactics.
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The cynical romanticism of noir and the cosmic mind games of speculative sci-fi are a tricky and not always successful blend.
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Beyond the shabby upkeep of so-called haunted sites are the mind games they can play on people who already believe in ghosts.
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Hard to say if it was mind games or if Mikaela just thinks Cecilia's hot ... either way, that was a serious lip-lock.
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Cheon Su "Che0nsu" Kim earned himself some new fans during BlizzCon with his uncanny sense for mind games and reading his opponents' hands.
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Release date: November 13, 2020The movie follows a couple who have fallen out of love who start playing mind games with each other.
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The mind games begin with the hit-and-run accident that kills a 5-year-old boy and leaves his single mother shattered.
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This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
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"They must not play mind games because our relationship with Taiwan is over 50 years so we will not dump them," Mgwagwa said.
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If you've been exasperated about the bad dates, rejections, and the mind games you deal with in the dating market, it's not just you.
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He does this by gaming the system using a series of apps to play the same digital mind-games that touts play with fans.
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But the moment a fighter forgets that encouraging a loss of composure is the point is the moment the mind games start to work.
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When he's promoted for his "optics," he becomes perfect prey for Cochran's mind games, then gets cast in the press as an Uncle Tom.
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Set the scene in Supreme Leader Snoke's throne room and use the knob (the Force) to pull Rey (included) closer for some mind games.
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Pretty Little Liars is returning in the spring for the second half of its seventh and final season, and the mind games have already begun.
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In her own twisted way, Montgomery believes that her mind games are her way of helping her daughter become who she was meant to be.
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You don't need to be a self-professed expert to know that relationships are about listening to one another instead of playing weird mind games.
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"Some corporate psychopaths thrive on thrill seeking, bore easily, seek stimulation, and play mind games with a strong desire to win," say Babiak and O'Toole.
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Also, they're constantly fighting for the attention of some handsome rando while producers play mind games and give them villain edits based on a whim.
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As holiday shopping commences, here are just a few of the mind games that companies may use to entice you into buying more stuff. 1.
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Krause soon found himself caught up in the web of Jackson's mind games and the coach's ability to use the media to achieve his goals.
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Hillis knows the secret to life, and it is playing elaborate mind games to make sure that other people envy you as much as possible.
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He has to play a whole bunch of mind games to get her to accept, because that's just his way, but she eventually accepts nonetheless.
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Yes, she was briefly played by the E Corp exec she and Tyrell brought down, who's mourning his (apparently pregnant) wife with drinking and mind games.
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With that in mind, games that encourage pattern matching but don't depend on numbers or words are a great way to encourage logical thinking among toddlers.
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In the cold open, Dolores plays multiple mind games with a wealthy man named Gerry (Thomas Kretschmann), who previously worked at a mysterious company named Incite.
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The men suiting up to court Clare would likely skew on the older side, meaning that we'd likely see less mind games and more mature dating.
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I think that will better prepare us for the mind games we play when those anxieties are exploited by outside forces, like advertising and social media.
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Psych-outs, mind games, risk and reward, baiting—it's all here, and there's a pure, joyous mystery to every turn that runs the course of every match.
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You get the sense she's using too much brain power on creative thought, devising her next little slice of expression, to be playing mind-games or plotting.
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With only two months until his highly anticipated match with boxer Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor has been up to his old controversial, over-the-top mind games.
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If you save serious conversations for later, this could be a whirlwind imaginative time that's ideal for relaxing and playing games—like board games, not mind games!
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As the Joker's girlfriend, she was the prototypical victim, enduring beatings, murder attempts and the most sadistic sorts of mind games — and always coming back for more.
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Critic's Notebook From the sophisticated Dadaism of "Atlanta" to the solemn mind games of "Westworld," the television season just past featured shows that were good for us.
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But HBO has been playing some serious mind games with the rollout of the trailer and premiere, with codes hidden in glitch flashes that lead to secret sites.
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Their back-and-forth mind games make for some of Harlots' most gripping scenes, not least because Morton and Manville give their roles their defiant, eyebrow-arching all.
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Still, its intrigue, mind games, and sinister atmosphere will keep you hooked from start to finish — particularly thanks to standout performances from Isaac, Catherine Keener, and David Schwimmer.
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But more than a decade ago, he was the U.S. Army interrogator who used mind games to find the most sought after fugitive of the Iraq War — Saddam Hussein.
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Of course, it's possible that this is more of Google's mind games related to Android O's name, which so far have included hints to Octopus and Orangina as possibilities.
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Fighting games are these wonderfully complex equations of risk and reward and pure mind games that are wonderful and fulfilling to watch, and I am super bad at them.
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As Trollstation makes plain on their website, they are a "collective of social misfits playing mad mind games on the public" with the intention of being provocative and controversial.
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The 'mind games' that McGregor and others play get to be a corny cliché for those of us following the sport and hearing the term bandied around full time.
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Floyd Mayweather just stepped up the mind games big-time with Conor McGregor -- claiming he and Paulie Malignaggi plotted to have Paulie spy on Conor's camp from the beginning!
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Of the intense moments between Lindsay and Krause shown during their breakup scene, Lindsay said she felt "frustrated" at reliving the "mind games" the two were playing with each other.
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She's had to settle for making her comeback through a smaller dance company belonging to Xan, a former mentor who seems to thrive on playing mind games with her dancers.
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Shull, performance coach and renowned author of "Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk," explains how emotions and feelings undermine sound decision-making in financial markets.
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The forty-three-year-old playwright is one of downtown's most trenchant, least crowd-pleasing talents, whose stubbornly genre-resistant work melds identity politics, Dadaist humor, and metatheatrical mind games.
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Games and Guantánamo generally don't go in the same sentence, unless we're talking about mind games played by interrogators or the soccer field the Department of Defense built for detainees.
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"It's an entirely new and scary world, dating in 2019 — the attention spans, interest in getting to know someone, and overall mind games are so confusing to me," she said.
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He will likely play that same card against the Capitals or Penguins, but Ottawa will value the extended the rest before he begins playing mind games in the conference finals.
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So did the iconic, black turtleneck wearing Apple cofounder really take time out of his day, five years before Apple Music even launched, to play mind games with a potential rival?
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Either way, it shows that, beyond the headlines of mud-slinging and mind games, Europe's superclubs are still run by human beings, capable of the occasional tendency toward warmth and kindness.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on Wednesday billed himself as Hollywood star Johnny Depp's Hannibal Lecter, playing mind games in his head and escalating a "war on terrier".
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Denise Shull, performance coach and renowned author of "Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk," explains how emotions and feelings undermine sound decision-making in financial markets.
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When I spoke with Kennedy, he recalled what he found at the home: a naked boy locked in a closet, widespread allegations of physical abuse, severe exercise, and sadistic mind games.
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Soon Felder was finding the mark with a good straight right and he demonstrated wonderfully that great offence isn't simply hand speed and volume, but often the simplest of mind games.
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The children were also subject to mind games and emotional abuse during their confinement, the source close to the investigation said, adding that they are in regular contact with each other.
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From a reduced peloton, Groupama-FDJ rider Molard attacked 1.2 km from the line and with his rivals playing mind games behind, crossed the line first to claim his second professional victory.
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The book, released last week, provides a unique insight into a world of mind games and violence, where the drug trade acts as a production line for the creation of ruthless gangsters.
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Mind games between Nagy, Fangio in Denver Both lauded schemers, Bears head coach Matt Nagy and Broncos head coach Vic Fangio were teammates on the Chicago staff just a few months ago.
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The poor turn-of-phrase takes a dark turn later in the episode, when a petty Melrose (Jackie Tohn) tries to play mind games with Cherry in front of all the GLOw women.
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This is one of my favorite mind games – pretend you're returning to 1872 and telling the story to Susan B. Anthony while she was being arrested for the crime of voting while female.
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That said, any potential drama about not going to the freaking Olympics when you've trained for the past four years is replaced with mind games, lesbian bed death, and Third Act Bisexuality™.
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Season 1 followed the mind games between the con man and the gambler; Season 2, which streams Friday, focuses more on Pete's family, including a memorable turn from the character actress Margo Martindale.
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Sources close to Azriel tell TMZ ... she's come to a realization that Kelly played mind games and manipulated her since she moved out of his Trump Tower condo and reconnected with her family.
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The Walking Dead continued its new tradition of playing mind games with the audience and concluded this episode with a lot of blood and no hint about exactly how badly Daryl was injured.
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This double-bladed approach of utilizing anti-rational ("post-truth") mind games and facts-based objective accuracy may best frustrate Trump's insatiable desire for recognition and get under his oh-so-thin skin.
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She says Robert Rodriguez played mind games on her In the chapter "Destruction," McGowan recounts her affair with director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, From Dusk till Dawn), with whom she worked on Planet Terror.
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Many retailers have turned to psychology to manipulate shopping spaces, both in stores and online, to persuade customers to make purchases -- and more often than not, we can be oblivious to these mind games.
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Surfing, skateboarding and climbing will all make their Olympic debuts next year in Japan but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has shown very little interest in mind games and adding chess to the programme.
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Convicted and confined to a psychiatric hospital, he spends his days swathed in a nubbly, oatmeal sweater, playing mind games with his son, Malcolm (Tom Payne), a profiler for the New York Police Department.
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Mr. Long began working at ReThink, where he is now the chief of staff, and Ms. Shull's book, "Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk" (McGraw-Hill Education) was published.
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You need all the mind games and politics you can get in Redemption to give yourself the best chances at getting picked to go into Armageddon if you don't end up pulling the double-cross.
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Actors Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen starred as a married couple, George and Martha, who invite two friends over for an evening that deteriorates amid vitriol, drunkenness, profanity, emasculation, cruel mind games and physical abuse.
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The 26-year-old actress plays Harley Quinn – a super villain and former doctor who becomes a victim to the mind games of the Joker, played by Leto, and falls madly in love with him.
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Still, for a show that rarely dabbles in these kinds of high-level mind games, it's rather shocking to see a character as nuanced as Dwight remain so integral to the direction of the plot.
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Forever the master of multidimensional chess and mind games, Trump kept his first tweet low-key, wishing "all of the great people of Canada" and his "new found friend Justin Trudeau" a happy Canada day.
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Performance coach Denise Shull filed suit against Showtime in January on the grounds that Maggie Siff's character Wendy Rhoades was inspired by Shull's book, "Market Mind Games," as reported by The Hollywood Reporter's Ashley Cullins.
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Each campaign receives tickets from the Commission on Presidential Debates to give to supporters at its discretion, and campaigns often engage in mind games when picking guests, as appeared to be the case with Mrs.
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The series stars Brian Cox as Logan Roy, a megalomaniac oligarch who enjoys playing mind games with his children about who will inherit his empire as much as he does basking in his own success.
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Many of its tools of subversion date to the early days of the Absurdists and the mind games of Pirandello and Ionesco, while others — more technologically sophisticated — are staples of the contemporary European avant-garde.
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There have been plenty of mind games already with Hamilton saying he would consider himself the true champion, regardless of the outcome, while Rosberg has been adamant that he is just focused on the race.
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Savvy mind games from Bravo as he held on, encouraging Gracie to keep pushing him away, and then Bravo released and rolled straight into a calf slicer variation he calls, in typical Bravo fashion, 'The Vaporizer'.
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It was no surprise that, after eight days of preseason testing that began last month, Mercedes and Ferrari became embroiled in their traditional mind games as the first race of the season in Melbourne, Australia, approached.
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Some of the missing vitality is supplied by Mr. Scott's Simon, a flamboyant player of mind games who in one stunt fakes his own death just for the fun of watching Caroline's face when she discovers him.
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She began coaching traders and fund managers about harnessing and using emotion, leading to the book "Market Mind Games," the founding of a consulting agency called the ReThink Group and appearances on business-related networks like CNBC.
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England were pumped up for the occasion after months and months of Australian mind games and – despite the fact that they would go on to lose the series opener – their aggressive approach marked a change in attitude.
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A vast online community has formed over the last decade around a belief in gang-stalking, with "targeted individuals" sharing stories of mobs of stalkers, mind games, thought control, and extreme surveillance being used to destroy their lives.
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The journalist, from Talk Sports, had apparently put his phone in front of Mourinho in order to record the mind games Mourinho was no doubt going to drop before tomorrow's crunch meeting between Manchester United and Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool.
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Not only is it a great show filled with drama and mind games and some entertaining physical challenges, Survivor is always set on a beautiful location in nature — which helps with my own lack of contact with the outdoors.
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One of the co-workers at my new job had introduced me to the game, and despite my lack of interest in physical card games I almost immediately fell in love with its combination of mind games and resource management.
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Alison has always tried to stay in control in her romantic relationships, but no amount of snarky comments or mind games can stop Cyrus from stealing Alison's stuff, throwing her against the wall, and dragging a knife across her thigh.
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That's the only way I can justify the series' eternal reliance on setting one narrative trap after another that eternally encircles John within Sherlock's story, and prefigures all the series' minor players as willful, oblivious extensions of Sherlock's mind games.
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At that stage, he still held all four of the Grand Slam singles titles, including the U.S. Open, which he had won in 2015 by defeating Roger Federer in front of a hostile crowd with the help of some mind games.
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China has become increasingly vocal about its desire to win away the country, formerly known as Swaziland, from Taiwan, even as the eSwatini government has denounced Beijing for playing "mind games" and says it has no desire to ditch Taipei.
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Froome, in the words of rival Richie Porte, then 'did his usual squeeze', producing a brutal acceleration that dropped a few riders including Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana, but mind games between the chasing pack ruined that effort as Aru remained clear.
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Sunday's title match started with Kevin Owens pacing around the ring for several minutes; this was framed as Owens playing mind games with Goldberg, but he was clearly killing time to make up for his opponent's inability to actually wrestle a match.
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A brainy 30-minute drama rooted in 20th-century history, it's about the writer Ayn Rand at midlife, playing philosophical mind games to get the latest thing she wants: a hot young man who is a devotee of hers, as is his wife.
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He is a recidivist for mind games — that puerile playground taunting that falls somewhere between boxers' trash talk and a movie trailer — and, when no particular foe presents themselves, he is more than capable of arguing with himself, his players, even his owner.
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Perplexed by the mind games and unspoken rules of high school, she mingles with two opposing cliques and, under a mischievous plot, joins the "Plastics" — a group of narcissistic, beauty-obsessed queens led by the most wicked girl in school (Rachel McAdams).
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Wonderfully played as an abrasive Cockney teen testing the limits of everyone around him, Thale is both a gadfly and a scapegoat for the ship, and he makes characters and viewers alike question whether what they're seeing is real or just his mind games.
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To offset the company's mind games, Dopamine Labs developed a tool called Space that allows users to turn off certain notifications from apps or reduce their frequency… Although I think anyone can actually just turn off notifications on a phone to solve that problem.
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Heathcliff and Cathy are both such manifestly awful people — he tortures puppies and beats women and children; she plays elaborate intergenerational mind games — that I want them together only so that they will stop inflicting themselves on their friends and relations out of sheer spite.
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But a deep interest in psychology (her master's thesis at the University of Chicago was on the neurobiology of Freud's Repetition Compulsion Theory) had her thinking about mind games on Wall Street, where the general rule is to take emotion out of decision making.
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To have a chance of saving the flight, Sherlock must solve a series of mind games Eurus has painstakingly set up for him (which she accomplished, I'll remind you, from her unlikely HQ of a palatial prison rock in the middle of the ocean).
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Streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation Kaguya-sama: Love is War has the intensity and mind games of Death Note, except it's a bizarre rom-com about two people who like each other and are trying to get the other one to admit it first.
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But Spithill zeroed in on the Kiwis' day off as if it were a sign of complacency, not only playing to his own team but also trying to play mind games with Burling and his crew, which is largely made up of Cup newcomers.
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Billy Martin never existed for them, and the days when Steinbrenner's mind games resulted, in the most passive and non-correlative sense possible, in the 1978 championship is as far away from us, and as relevant, as the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and eight percent inflation.
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Instead, Eurus was at Sherrinford, the maximum security island prison where she has been held all these years … except for the times when she was able to nip over to London, play elaborate mind games on John and Sherlock, shoot John, and then return to her cell.
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So powerful is the legacy of Ferguson, so deep-seated the obsession with mind games, that it has taken a while to realize that there are no thorns hidden among the garlands, to remember that praise can have a function other than piling pressure on an opponent.
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However, it is vital not only that the West grow to realize this — because if we feel powerless, we become vulnerable to Putin's mind games and power plays — but also that we practice and posture such that the Kremlin appreciates that this is a real threat.
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But "Mercy" doesn't grant us an inside look at the Saviors' day-to-day operations, so we really have no idea whether Negan engages in any mind games with his subordinates to weed out subversives, or whether he runs his shop purely on trust and fear like a thuggish dolt.
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It isn't exactly a sequel, but it draws on Resolution's ideas clearly enough that The Endless will play much better for people who've already seen their first film, and have their expectations set for Lovecraftian horror, technological mind-games, and some meta ideas about what makes for a satisfying story.
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It's just extraordinary and depressing that the current president has to defend the integrity of our elections from a Republican nominee with mind games meant to cause Trump narcissistic injury, and that Republican leaders, who all support Trump, don't find this state of affairs alarming enough to speak up themselves.
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Jackson's 20th-century horror classic is a case study in mind games; as represented in the 1963 Robert Wise film adaptation The Haunting, it's more a tale of psychological terror than the supernatural — if indeed there's anything ghostly at all lurking within the dark, decrepit mansion known as Hill House.
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Deadline reports that Affleck and de Armas are in talks to play Deep Water's main characters Vic and Melinda Van Allen, a young married couple whose unique arrangement — Melinda is allowed to take other lovers as long as she doesn't abandon her family — turns fatal as the pair plays mind games with each other.
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The most recent iterations, Extreme Vs Full Boost and Maxi Boost, are both very different beasts: Each is fully focused on 2v2 competitive play, and offers not only more characters to choose from, but additional gameplay systems encourage players to take part in fiendish mind games and allow them to stage dramatic come backs.
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However, when she finds herself locked out of her account and replaced by a double who seems more skilled at being Alice than Alice herself, she has a completely relatable meltdown — one that has less to do with the mind games she's being subjected to than with the loss of both her livelihood and her brush with internet fame.
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The rest of the episode is devoted to an elaborate series of mind games and "experiments" that Eurus has pulled to get to Sherlock — because in case you've forgotten, everything that happens on Sherlock is always about Sherlock Holmes, to the exclusion of other characters having lives or identities outside of wanting to love him, foil him, or mess with his head.
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He suggested that the aspiration to "just be part of a stack" was one of the album's flaws; play it up against, say, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run (1975), however, and you'll hear the difference between someone who believes in rock & roll and a dangerous outsider who picked music as his medium so he could play mind games with the mass audience.
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It's easily his sharpest and most playful full-length, moving as one continuous thing rather than sounding merely like a collection of songs, as when the sighing ballad "Mind Games" (sung by Ed McFarlane of Friendly Fires) melts into the driving, heavily EQ'd near-trance of "Germination" (produced with Kompakt mainstay Kölsch), which then veers into the emotionally charged "Voyage Interiur," featuring Miss Kittin on spoken vocals.
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This time, Brown takes an ordinary racist Floridian (who swears he's not a racist, he just thinks Central and South American immigrants are invading his country...glad that's cleared up) and uses a combination of classical conditioning, elaborate setups, and a heavy dose of Derren Brown-y mind games to see if his subject could possibly learn enough empathy to lay down his life for a member of the group he hates.
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Try This Instead How a College Campus in California's Central Valley Became a Magnet for Latinos The Impolite Pleasure of People-Watching Hear a Mash-up of Every 'Goooooool' From the World Cup The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs From Mind Games to Election Hacking: Russia's Trolling Tactics Explained 'I Just Simply Did What He Wanted': Sexual Abuse Inside Immigrant Detention Facilities Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster.
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