But Mr. Blessing is less concerned with telling Cobb's story than using it for its suggestive psychological terrain.

Maybe there's a link to opera in terms of the scale and the psychological terrain explored.

Yet it manages to encompass a wide range of psychological and thematic terrain.

But the story allows Wolf-Ferrari to explore psychological terrain touched upon powerfully by Offenbach in "The Tales of Hoffmann."

She remarked that the storyline was an "elaborate and relentless chase that takes those involved into primal psychological terrain."

This expedition out onto the psychological terrain threw Lopwitz's already sunken cheeks into perplexed creases.

"Lovers" draws on a similar psychological terrain, concluding in the solitude of the Arctic Circle.

The album's most striking songs venture into psychological terrain not usually visited by pop.

As a director, Ms. Breillat specializes in explorations of the psychological terrain of feminine shame and desire.