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Recent Examples of sociopathic
Ellis joined the cast for the second season as a married sociopathic professor who has an affair with Bree.
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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
Not only is there practically no cash to be lifted from the election-night party, but the job completely unravels when their sociopathic team captain (rapper Jack Harlow) goes rogue and decides to hold Mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) and his cronies at gunpoint.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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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
Not only is there practically no cash to be lifted from the election-night party, but the job completely unravels when their sociopathic team captain (rapper Jack Harlow) goes rogue and decides to hold Mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) and his cronies at gunpoint.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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The story centers on Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a neurotic college student who survives by never straying from the set of rules he’s outlined for himself.Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Outlining a plan for world domination would have been too neurotic.Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 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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Pic follow Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, who suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Director Satoshi Kon uses the medium to his advantage, to be sure, utilizing the reality-bending possibilities of animation to take viewers inside his heroine's paranoid, fractured headspace.Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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My mind has always been prone to fixation: I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder at 17, which left me with obsessions that prompted me to perform time-consuming rituals and tasks.Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
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Related article Unforgettable photos of psychedelia and debauchery from the golden age of LSD In small clinical trials, synthetic versions of the psychedelic have shown benefits in tackling cluster headaches, anxiety, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and various forms of substance abuse.Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 22 Oct. 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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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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In Taxi Driver, a campaign worker named Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) goes on a lunch date with disturbed Vietnam vet turned cabbie Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro).Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
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Between all the red carpets, festivals and interviews, Ronan is feeling delirious.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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His third directorial venture, The Host, is a delirious, exciting, funny, and at times quite terrifying genre mash-up with a side of social commentary.Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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