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Sentence Examples He spent some time in America and there he began to show signs of paranoia and other aspects of mental disturbance. It leads to a climate of resentment, division, distrust, suspicion, and even paranoia. The narcissistic presumption of centrality that underpins paranoia here gives birth to semiotic solipsism. They do whatever it takes to paint the blackest possible picture and bind their supporters to them with unreasoning bonds of paranoia. Add to this a splash of alcoholism, a dash of paranoia and a dose of misogyny, and you have a pretty nasty piece of work. After a while I found myself hit by a wave of fatigue, paranoia and depression, but an hour's kip and a wander round the shops worked wonders. I agree with Mr. Jenkins, I think you can work yourself into a state of real paranoia here if you're not careful. The refresh interval is set to three hours, a reasonable compromise between bandwidth conservation and paranoia. Anger and paranoia, no doubt vital fuels for his groundbreaking work, got the best of him in the end. Many claim the split was due to Evatt's paranoia, power hunger or just plain madness. Outing those with delusions of grandeur, paranoia, and entitlement is a tough job, but somebody's done a great job of it. Unfortunately, the anger was short-lived and a teensy bit of paranoia set in. I am a notoriously bad timekeeper, yet, through sheer paranoia, I have turned up at my daughter's school half-an-hour early. I think there's paranoia in the national press and that contaminates the foreign press. These, and other gems of paranoia and self-delusion will no doubt surface over the next month. Though the film is undoubtedly a product of widespread Cold War paranoia, the film distances itself enough to objectify its horrors. Her case is misdiagnosed, and she finds herself swept into vertiginous cycles of self-loathing and ecstasy, paranoia and visionary exaltation. The patient's mental status was marked by confusion, hostility, paranoia, agitation, and depersonalization. Spatial paranoia made us thankful for our isolation from the rest of the world. In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic descent into paranoia and self-destruction. Show More Sentences Functional psychoses include conditions such as schizophrenia, paranoia, psychopathic personality traits and manic depression. Excessive doses produce hyperactivity, paranoia and other psychotic symptoms. Sometimes you encounter leftist paranoia so utterly deranged, so shamelessly depraved, you don't know wether to laugh or cry. This is almost universally regarded as a shameful blot on America's history, a cautionary tale of racism, paranoia, and wartime hysteria. It is this embattled romanticism that surfaces in Orwell's text in the form of paranoia. He's possessed by such a strangling, medically induced paranoia that he's convinced of the belief that even his own ideas have been stolen. It was the least of his transgressions in a career notable for its paranoia, deceptions, moral vacuum and megalomania. On the other hand, that overactive imagination can also cause irrational fears, superstitions, and even paranoia. The palace in the end became a miasma of schemes, intrigues, paranoia and backstabbing. These are neurotically emotional outbursts and chemically induced sensations of grandeur and paranoia. I lived in an almost millenarianist paranoia, thinking that the end of the world was literally waiting around the corner. A little bit of paranoia may keep us on our toes, but a constant state of suspicion and distrust is pathological. If there's a message to this movie, it's don't get a panic room because paranoia is not a good idea. What it was, instead, was a farrago of paranoia and pretence, hysteria and lies. Mr Crosland said Day's use of amphetamines had caused delusions and paranoia. The atmosphere of universal suspicion and vigilance of the Terror years was not irrational paranoia. Well it was too late now and my jealousy and paranoia grew on one fateful Friday afternoon. This is a city prone to paranoia at the best of times, as personified by that quintessential New Yorker, Woody Allen. Live in a state of perpetual paranoia and always know what your competitors are doing. In any organism, person, organisation, or even country stress leads to paranoia. Show More Sentences The film succeeds because we are made to feel a little bit of the confusion, paranoia and madness of war. The paranoia of a parent who's lost their child is easy to empathise with and makes gripping drama. Setting aside suspicion and paranoia, surely highways officials must have a plan for the future of this area. It is a tale of psychological terror and at its heart are paranoia and fear. Face it, our information is safer when we have a healthy dose of paranoia regarding it. On the space station that orbits Solaris, paranoia has evolved into a degree of mistrust, bordering on terror. She felt paranoia and panic rising up to claim her, but she wouldn't let that happen. She looked like she was on the edge of paranoia from being watched as though she was on display. Who expects to find an aging Spanish nanny at the center of a tale of religious hysteria, paranoia, murder and revenge? I think paranoia is only useful if you're in combat and need to be constantly ready to kill. When two young men are driving along the highway one evening, they are flagged down by a cop and anxiety soon turns to paranoia. I almost thought I could see a dark shape through the veil of flames, but I passed it off as paranoia. Let it never be said that the Left doesn't have its fair share of paranoia and persecution complexes. In many cases, these suspicions may be so unreasonable as to border on paranoia. It makes the last two years of Smith's life sound unbearable, a morass of depression, insomnia, paranoia, drug and alcohol abuse and overwork. This freezing fish rule is a hypochondriacal approach to health-care regulation, fuelled by Toronto's post-SARS paranoia and antisepticism. I experienced a little of his innate paranoia one snowy afternoon last year. And finally, this one, which nicely encapsulates a certain type of far-left paranoia. He gradually weakens in his struggle and gets deeper into a state of paranoia and disorientation. He has captured Macbeth's essential weakness of character in his slow descent into paranoia and depression. Show More Sentences It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia. This leads to hallucinations, suspiciousness, neglect of personal hygiene, acute paranoia or depression. He said people suffering from paranoia are known to have a capacity to be very dangerous. The most common symptom of paranoia is the belief that someone or something is persecuting you. The paranoia which surrounded the idea of a fallout shelter was a byproduct of the large amount of fear felt by people during the nuclear age. Holly Hunter plays the evil work colleague who encourages Murphy's paranoia. Towards the end of his reign he showed an increasing propensity for paranoia. The next counter argument is linked to deep paranoia about the authorities' competence and good intentions. Always suspicious to the point of paranoia, Constantius struck at the roots of conspiracy. But those who rated highest on personality traits such as negativism and paranoia before deployment also tended to show more signs of PTSD later. He is dominated by the forces of anxiety, paranoia, and anger, which manifest in a roughness and impatience toward his beautiful neighbor. The methodological centrality of suspicion to current critical practice has involved a concomitant privileging of the concept of paranoia. As the difference between humans and robots dissolves, do not succumb to paranoia, do not lose your nerve. In short, schizophrenic identity is an important constitutive element of cultural paranoia. Or if she does, she'll glance quickly away again, paranoia in her eyes, afraid that she'll be caught cruising the straight girl. He thought he saw a shadow move beneath the privet, but put it down to his paranoia and drew in a sharp breath. A great flick to take the wee ones to, especially when current paranoia practically begs both parents and kids to have their nightmares defanged. Kingsley plays Ford in a near-hysterical key throughout, his jealousy tinged with full-blown paranoia. It may well be the old congenital paranoia, but I detect more than a touch of wishful thinking here. Back home he is racked by paranoia, loneliness and inextinguishable desire for Simone. Show More Sentences Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction. Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. The play shows political paranoia colliding with greed and ambition. Against this paranoia of recent history, Frank takes the long view that all disasters and destruction are natural. Russian worldview is almost entirely based on myths and combines delusions of grandeur with paranoia. I've no desire to harbour unabating paranoia about my neighbours. To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion. Van Zant was echoing a growing sentiment of paranoia and fear sparked by the optional public education standards program. But fear of something that is not actually a threat is not rightful fear, but rather paranoia. Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia. An unshakable feeling that the Devil is nearby, intense paranoia, and criticism over a bad haircut? The Rams can still move the ball in explosive fashion when the spirit moves them, but their weak defense and special teams and front-office paranoia are major detriments. For every Record Collector, LP paranoia eventually sets in and the beloved becomes a monster, desperate to scratch and scuff the poor helpless vinyl. Is it because of a growing cynicism against anything the government tries to push through without proper consultation, or is it unjustifiable paranoia on my part? To me, being a Jew carries a low-grade paranoia that is both an overreaction and entirely justified, based on history. An insomniac who hasn't slept for over a year, he finds himself drawn into a crazy world of delusion and paranoia, where conspiracy theories start taking over his life. The paper has opened a nationwide debate on whether he should be allowed to continue in power now that he is revealing signs of megalomania and paranoia. I am keenly aware that such a view might be perceived by some as having a good dose of paranoia of my own. But Homeland is also a highly provocative drama, fueled by paranoia, patriotism, zealotry, and madness. But her paranoia still clung to her like suckerfish would do to a shark. Show More Sentences As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me. What remains is a traditional case of a national paranoia being manipulated by a cunning business establishment to protect its entrenched interests. Some of it was just general-purpose paranoia, designed to trick money out of the pockets of the fearful and gullible. You were a true professional, whose paranoia equalled only my own. More likely, it's another smokescreen designed to increase the public's general paranoia and portray the Department of Homeland Security as anything but incompetent. Those who dream of a post-partisan future should note that paranoia has a habit of erasing traditional political boundaries. Behind these constant rehearsals for doomsday lies a deep paranoia. Sliding into druggy paranoia, Beverly sees mutant women wherever he looks. What compelled you to write a book about paranoia and the national security state? Without wanting to pour oil upon the ever-burning fire of subcontinental paranoia, it does seem that the goose and the gander are treated differently. And the Republican attacks on the health-care bill are replete with paranoia about rationing and death panels. Republicanism has become a southern gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism. I swallowed H.S. Tsien's deportation and Cold War paranoia and Joe McCarthy and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China. It does not require conspiracy-theorist paranoia to wonder if this is in fact a vanguard action to assess how a ban might work in England and Wales. It propagates paranoia about the Third World's dark intentions to gatecrash and infiltrate the Western World over a period of time, and take it over eventually. Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover. The paranoia he unleashed was so overwhelming that it seeped into every pore of society, including the Pendle witch trials. It serves us well in our home city, but perhaps gives us an unwanted air of paranoia and aggressiveness in, say, Hailey, Idaho. Meanwhile most of the world will Merrily move on, largely unencumbered by such all-encompassing prejudices and paranoia. Then I began to re-evaluate our entire relationship with half the self-esteem and twice the paranoia. Show More Sentences Kremlin-approved media coverage of Moscow's subway bombings is engulfing the city in paranoia. The office security guard usually inspires affection rather than paranoia. Pakistan needs a change of direction away from the xenophobia and paranoia fed by its controlling army. To make a long story short, Lowtax and Fragmaster manage to survive the night, after a few frights caused by a stray cat and a hilarious concoction of paranoia and tequila. To this army of religious home-schoolers, it's about some absurd paranoia about indoctrination too. In her book, she exhibits pronounced paranoia that the fourth estate had collaborated in one giant conspiracy against her. As fears of the virus hitting Europe intensify, health officials warn that paranoia and racial profiling may grow, as well. Such paranoia and fear of the other, of course, is typical among the ultra-orthodox of any religion. It was like a psychedelic trip without that messy paranoia business. What possible change can any one citizen instigate against that barrage of anti-intellectual, gun-toting paranoia? Russell Crowe may have turned in a virtuoso performance, accurately capturing the confusion and paranoia of being in mental turmoil, but let's face it, so what. You can act, sure, but those eyes are cray cray with paranoia. As I gaze at this slender sylph in front of me, the absurdity of her paranoia gets me thinking that women so often suffer from a distorted view of themselves. Their paranoia is discrediting them, burning bridges, and hurting us. During his final years, and especially after the death of Hephaestion, Alexander began to exhibit signs of megalomania and paranoia. The political and social unrest that borders on paranoia in the Berlin of 1936 is the background for this thriller. More extreme antipet people are crazed by paranoia over the possibility of contracting some disease from an animal. We have become rumormongers and tea-leaf readers, believers in signs, bouncing back and forth between uneasy optimism and unfettered paranoia. In addition, wild rumours and paranoia caused widespread unrest and civil disturbances that contributed to the collapse of law and order. She said she did not find any evidence of a psychotic disorder, but there were elements of paranoia and antisocial personality disorder. Show More Sentences That, in the absence of an explanation as to why, paranoia takes over. Similarly, the effects of marihuana being smoked in the context of police persecution invite feelings of paranoia and semipsychotic episodes. Pearce has swept away the poison and paranoia which infested Billy Davies' unlamented regime at the City Ground. It speeds heart rate and increases blood pressure and can also cause agitation, paranoia and confusion. But with self-awareness comes self-protection and a little paranoia. Nutmeg poisoning is also reported to induce hallucinogenic effects, such as visual distortions and paranoia. Occasionally a paranoia or slight insecurity that is not based on reality will bring nigglings of that bad time. This square reflects Dominicans' paranoia and fears that the Dominican Republic would be denationalized through the massive influx of Haitian immigrants. Has the paranoia and increasing megalomania of their figurehead Erdogan ended up damaging the party, despite his having led it to success in several elections? This conspiracist worldview appears repeatedly in right-wing oppositional serials, ranging from muted suggestions, to text that palpitates with paranoia. She woozily claims to know Thomas and paranoia runs rampant. Mark's paranoia turns him into an overreading hypothetical focalizer and a mindreader with metarepresentational problems, but this is only one side of his focalizing problem. What if the potential victim is actively psychotic, not committable under your particular state's law, but refusing all assistance because of paranoia? One of Ai's apparent offenses was to puckishly feed that paranoia. Examples from Classical Literature Nrana did not know the words for delirium and paranoia, but he could distinguish between them. Studies of paranoia and of egocentric personalities have resulted in the discovery of the only or favorite child complex. Initial paranoia, with megalomaniacal symptoms, on the basis of hereditary inferiority, with vicarious genius. And all the while eyeing the new and the foreign with the paranoia that is the result of true guilt. His allies were as disenchanted with his growing paranoia and geopolitical sado-masochism. After the persecutory stage in paranoia, comes the third, or so-called expansive period of the disease. Their wives then become martyrs, especially in cases of alcoholism and paranoia. Many of our crowd-phenomena belong, like paranoia, to this last class. There is one thing that is linked in with a lot of addictions and it is the paranoia, the secretiveness and the shame. History contains many examples of human irrationality and paranoia, but the nuclear standoff is probably the worst. He thought the paranoia was an improvement over the wider madness. Naively I had assumed for years that African-Americans dealt in paranoia, I am now rudely aware that the venal claws of slavery are still firmly embedded. Find more words! 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