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/sˌaɪkəlˈɑdʒɪkəl mˈoʊmənt/ Listen

Psychological moment

noun

The most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect.

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... could be done. We had simply to hold off the Turks and make shift as best we could, meanwhile collecting materials and making preparations for a definite offensive when the psychological moment arrived. ...

— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

... such a thing as perfect love? She had her doubts. She reasoned that love was what a body decided was love, the psychological moment when the physical attraction became irresistible. Who could tell before the fact which was the true and which the false? Lived there a woman, herself excepted, who had not hesitated between two men—a man who had not doddered between two women—for better or for ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... and imitating his actions, working gradually from the simpler operations to the more complex, the beginner is able to master technic and methods in the shortest possible time. The psychological moment for such instruction, of course, is the first day or the first week. New men learn much more readily than those who have become habituated to certain methods or tasks; not having had time or opportunity to experi- ...

— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... notes. Madame Bernard waved her white lace fan impatiently. "It's the psychological moment," Rose observed. "Why don't ...

— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed

... new marvels. The summer day was graying to its twilight, and a light haze was stealing out of the wooded ravines and across from the river. From the tall chimneys of a rolling-mill a dense column of smoke was ascending, and at the psychological moment the slag flare from an iron-furnace changed the overhanging cloud into ...

— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

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