Citations:mindfuckery
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English citations of mindfuckery
Noun: "(vulgar) behaviour, material, or conditions which destabilize or confuse the mind"
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- 2005 — Linda Stella, Unimaginable Zero Summer, Three Rivers Press (2005), →ISBN, page 192:
- […] The last thing I need is group therapy. I can handle my personal mindfuckery in my own way, thanks."
- 2005 — Sean Wilsey, Oh the Glory of It All, Penguin (2005), →ISBN, page 387:
- […] until my brain started to fuck with me on play seven (a "mindfuck" was John's term for any intellectual interference with emotions), and I'd cry less naturally, a bit hiccupy, stop 'n' go, stuttery, John had me hold Jason — the colonel's stepson — and all mindfuckery was washed away as the crying grew more fierce and unfettered than it had been before on any of the seven plays.
- 2006 — John Dougan, The Who Sell Out, Continuum (2006), →ISBN, page 97:
- As if opening the record with a jingle wasn't perverse enough, Sell Out's first track, "Armenia [pronounced 'arm and ear'] City in the Sky," was an equally confounding bit of mindfuckery.
- 2009 — Simon Reynolds, Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews, Faber and Faber (2009), →ISBN:
- Did he do the same sort of mindfuckery with the other members?
- 2012 — Andrew P. H. Clyde, The Scabtown Bullshardist, AuthorHouse (2012), →ISBN, page 76:
- No repentance AT ALL for the constant manipulation and mindfuckery she perfected down to an art over the course of our relationship?