psychological moment

Mending his forlorn heart has built a resilience which helped McIlroy to execute special shots shortly after tough psychological moments on his path to Masters glory.

But it is the film's psychological moments that engage the emotions.

“Putin has a thing about going down in history. This was his story, and Ivanov entered his territory…. It was an important psychological moment.”

The Times was suitably impressed by his "knowledge of human nature, and an extremely shrewd application of business principles in securing the advantage at the psychological moment".

In his rehearsal, he urges his dancers to get uncomfortably close to one another, to find “those weird psychological moments.”