The Inhibitions which a habit of careful attention to points of style ordinarily called into play were largely inoperative when he wrote in a language which presented to his mind a smaller variety of possible expressions, and thus imposed limits upon his self-criticism.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
They attribute the superior performances to the removal of Inhibitions, which psychologically prevent an athlete from doing his best.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
Obviously this is an unhealthy state, for the spirit of a people is in its books, and I suspect that it does a people no good if its preoccupation find no outlet; it develops Inhibitions, while its Puritan masters develop phobias.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George