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Recent Examples of sociopathic
After all, the character has always been a sociopathic crime boss—never the sad, remorseful loser that Arthur is.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Ellis joined the cast for the second season as a married sociopathic professor who has an affair with Bree.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
For much of the movie’s first half, Andrews sends Michael journeying through night-time landscapes — which obscure violent imagery before revealing it at specific, gut-churning moments — in order to either gather his flock, or enact revenge on a father-son duo who seem downright sociopathic.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
In a way, she’s disassociated from that and compartmentalized it in some sociopathic, pathological way.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Ellis joined the cast for the second season as a married sociopathic professor who has an affair with Bree.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
For much of the movie’s first half, Andrews sends Michael journeying through night-time landscapes — which obscure violent imagery before revealing it at specific, gut-churning moments — in order to either gather his flock, or enact revenge on a father-son duo who seem downright sociopathic.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
In a way, she’s disassociated from that and compartmentalized it in some sociopathic, pathological way.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
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Here are some presents for those delightfully neurotic people in your life, the ones who keep their kitchens as organized as the pros in restaurants.Emily Johnson, Bon Appétit, 5 Dec. 2024
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Due to childhood lead poisoning, the research suggests that Americans, overall, are less conscientious and more neurotic.Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
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Corcoran is under the paranoid delusion that prison guards are torturing him with sound waves.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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Described as a paranoid thriller in the vein of Esmail’s Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mr. Robot, as well as The Silence of the Lambs, the film’s logline is being kept under wraps.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
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Anxiety Anxiety disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can co-occur with polyphagia due to the emotional and psychological impact on eating behaviors.Sarah Jividen, Health, 5 Dec. 2024
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Seeing Shred: Differences in muscle dysmorphia, orthorexia nervosa, depression, and obsessive-compulsive tendencies among groups of weightlifting athletes National Library of Medicine.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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However, a late-October rally in Trump’s odds was a result of aberrant betting behavior from just 1% of Polymarket’s users, according to Bloomberg.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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But Trump’s conduct has been so aberrant for so long that separating genuine deterioration from routine volatility is no easy task—on what basis does one judge oscillations in something without precedent in public life?Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
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It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
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Police responded to two incidents in 2023 where the suspect was emotionally disturbed.Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 18 Nov. 2024
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The phenomenon has grown so popular of late that Yosemite officials say a growing number of visitors have destroyed natural vegetation and disturbed habitats while battling for parking and viewing spaces.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, his primetime chalk talk sessions with the Bros. Manning are the stuff of a football junky’s most delirious fever dreams.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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That all came through, especially on the drums, the delirious guitar solo, and Clarkson’s always stellar vocals.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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