Neurotic Sentence Examples

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  • Donne was now in weak health, and in a highly neurotic condition.

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  • The machine is quite eloquent, but I would be concerned by the needy and slightly neurotic tone.

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  • His life with Joanna was rendered extremely unhappy by his infidelity and by her jealousy, which, working on a neurotic temperament, precipitated her insanity.

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  • How did Dorothy become so neurotic -- what happened to her?

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  • Im convinced if we worried about evey little ache and pain we'd all have neurotic bubs to handle!

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  • Then I'll complain a lot, become neurotic, and generally be a pain in the ass for a while.

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  • When they did the Church got neurotic and issued an edict.

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  • Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.

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  • These people are not neurotic in the sense that they should fear nothing at all.

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  • They considered that despite the apparently neurotic symptomatology presented by certain patients, they did not behave in the treatment like ordinary neurotics.

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  • Also known as cavies, guinea pigs tend to be neurotic and can frighten quite easily.

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  • This way he won't escalate into more neurotic behavior.

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  • Impure beverages induce all the graver neurotic and visceral disorders in alcoholism; and, like fusel oil, furfurol and the essence of absinthe, are convulsent poisons.

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  • It is believed that his disease was a malarial form of recurrent quinsy acting upon an extremely neurotic system.

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  • Since Capricorn always plans ahead and can become almost neurotic regarding his fear of the future, a Cancer's domestic interest in life can provide her mate with a safe haven.

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  • I was equally neurotic when I was pregnant with the other three children, gaining anywhere between 16 and 23 pounds with each pregnancy and then managing to lose the weight within two weeks.

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  • The breathing becomes shallow, the drug killing, like nearly all neurotic poisons (alcohol, morphia, prussic acid, &c.), by paralysis of the respiratory centre, and the patient dying in a state of coma.

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  • I'm naturally paranoid & more than a bit neurotic about such things.

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  • They went from believing that Britain could do anything to an almost neurotic belief that Britain could do nothing.

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  • For example, I am both highly neurotic and highly self-confident.

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  • She is portrayed as a devoted mother on the show, but also as rather neurotic and lonely.

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  • Carbolic acid is distinguished from all other acids so-called - except oxalic acid and hydrocyanic acid - in that it is a neurotic poison, having a marked action directly upon the nervous system.

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