Ejemplos de uso de overcompensation
1. In a classic case of overcompensation, I later went through a period of insisting on Patrick boots, largely because they were black.
2. Boyden Gray, the very same gent who has since turned judicial nightrider and will, in Freudian overcompensation, torch any senator who opposes a judicial reactionary.
3. In Nigel Slater‘s Toast, his mother can be seen as an ingredient in the meagre recipe of his childhood (his career as a cook voluptous overcompensation). In Fleur Adcock‘s moving poem ‘The Chiffonier‘, written after her mother contracted Alzheimer‘s, she takes a loving liberty.