Meaning of headgame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An attempt to psychologically manipulate
2. A mental pursuit

Examples

“To celebrate literature which is headgame, to banish the heart's journey from the page, to lead into retreat that which Faulkner called Literature's sole concern, the heart in conflict with itself, does not save lives or bring the news or alter by even a syllable a culture's top-40 or next one-thousand tunes.”

“And that whole long story about Zach — that was just some kind of headgame?"”

“I wasn't trying to be cruel. It's just, with all the waiting-by-the-phone stuff that happens when you're twenty-five—the headgames, the guys never being honest, or their acting like you're trying to do something awful to them just by caring—a girl's got to take her power back.”

“It struck Jill that he was serious, that maybe this wasn't some sort of rich-guy headgame.”

“Bloch's utopia is not More's headgame. It is real.”

“It does not win its game with anyone: not with the artists who resent it; nor with social thinkers who look down on its headgame of words, sounds, and minute particulars; nor with activists who believe in proving arguments and converting minds by intellectual or other means.”

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