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paranoid used casually

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  • Don't be paranoid. She doesn't even know you.
  • She said it had taken her years to convince Tyler to let her immunize their children, because some part of him still believed vaccines are a conspiracy by the Medical Establishment. ... How can he not see beyond their paranoia!   (source)
    paranoia = irrational fear
  • Every minute, every hour, there was worry, or more to the point, paranoia. Criminal activity will do that to a person, especially a child.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear
  • He wondered if Zigzag was just being paranoid.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
  • Roland lumbers back to his corner, but Connor's sure he's monitoring the conversation now, probably paranoid that they're plotting against him.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively fearful
  • He was seized with paranoia. "You win war, and you make all Japanese like black slaves!" he shouted at a POW.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear
  • Each sheet was numbered, and at the top: "These plans represent the confidential creations of InGen Inc. You must have signed document 112/4a or you risk prosecution."
    "Looks pretty paranoid to me," he said.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
  • Was I paranoid to think that when she'd said human beings, what she really meant was me?   (source)
  • Mr. Hoo said the tea tasted funny, maybe they had all been poisoned. Denton Deere diagnosed paranoia.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear of others
  • Demosthenes began to develop as a fairly paranoid antiWarsaw writer.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively fearful
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  • Sorry if I sound paranoid I just like posting there and don't want to have to delete it.   (source)
  • I was getting paranoid.   (source)
  • Hundreds of cages hung from the ceiling, with several seekers in each of them: Redd's bloodhounds, bred out of her distrust and paranoia; creatures with bird-of-prey bodies and the heads of blood-sucking insects.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear of others
  • Or maybe I'm being paranoid.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively fearful
  • "Nothing ever likes to die — even a room. I wonder if it hates me for wanting to switch it off?"
    "Paranoia is thick around here today," said David McClean.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear or suspicion that others want to harm you
  • This was the fastest and most secure type of Internet connection available, and since it wasn't provided by KM or one of its subsidiaries, I wouldn't have to be paranoid about them monitoring my connection or trying to trace my location.†   (source)
  • Am I still that notorious, or that paranoid?†   (source)
  • Call me paranoid, but I'd prefer if as few people as possible know how much stuff we're going to have socked away in Fort Mumford.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps paranoid," Chiron suggested.†   (source)
  • Tobias was so paranoid when I was railing against Dauntless there.†   (source)
  • Heavens no. The End of Days is a legend of paranoid minds.†   (source)
  • Maybe my parents were just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • I don't think that kind of thing matters, but supposedly Alice was paranoid about it all night.†   (source)
  • He made himself loads of enemies, though....the families of people he caught, mainly....and I heard he's been getting really paranoid in his old age.†   (source)
  • That makes me paranoid in Savannah.†   (source)
  • If I were being the slightest bit paranoid, I'd think he was an infiltrator of some kind, or a low-grade molester.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, and the next and the next, I grew increasingly paranoid.†   (source)
  • But my dad wouldn't get out, even though technically the loft belongs to my mom (thank God Carol Fernandez didn't put the loft's address in the paper; and thank God my mom is so paranoid about Jesse Helms siccing the CIA on sociopolitical artists like herself, in order to yank their NEA grants, that she keeps our phone number unlisted; no reporters have discovered the loft, so we can at least order in Chinese without fear of hearing a story on Extra on how much the Princess Amelia likes moo shu vegetable).†   (source)
  • Yes, it was a relief that A was Andrew and not Ali, and yes, she felt a billion times better and a zillion times less paranoid since yesterday, but still—what a horrible, meddling spy!†   (source)
  • Wheelwright was a Cambridge graduate; he'd played football with Oliver Cromwell—whose estimation of Wheelwright (as a football player) was both worshipful and paranoid.†   (source)
  • The more infected the killzone, the more paranoid and violent the behavior of the infected.†   (source)
  • I know I'm being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Nehemia wouldn't do anything—perhaps she was just being paranoid and ridiculous.†   (source)
  • I was twitchy and paranoid, bad enough at interacting with other people that my parents hired a tutor so that I only had to go to school on days I felt up to it.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm being paranoid, being a mother, but you just can't be too safe these days...†   (source)
  • I told him I was still grieving over our parents' deaths and got a little paranoid.†   (source)
  • She supposed paranoid types who required absolute privacy would find direct comms appealing, but even then, they would use a port or netscreen—a device that was set up for it.†   (source)
  • I told myself I was being paranoid.†   (source)
  • "Oh, the Paranoid Android," he said.†   (source)
  • Foaly was a paranoid centaur, that human intelligence agencies were monitoring his and surveillance network.†   (source)
  • Because this is what I am wondering now —maybe I am wrong, maybe I am paranoid —but maybe Horst knew all along?†   (source)
  • As I head home I keep feeling paranoid, like someone will be able to smell the Wilds on me, will be able to tell just from seeing my face that I've crossed over.†   (source)
  • They're probably paranoid and delusional.†   (source)
  • They look surprised and a little offended, and I wonder if I've got it wrong—that they are harmless and I'm just paranoid.†   (source)
  • Maybe you become paranoid after a while, suspicious of everything and everyone, for no reason.†   (source)
  • Let's not get paranoid, Kris scolded herself.†   (source)
  • He was delusional, paranoid, convinced a dark, evil force was coming from the heavens to take him.†   (source)
  • One night after my father died, I had cried so much I started to become paranoid I was doing damage to my eyes, so I googled it.†   (source)
  • She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.†   (source)
  • I hoped I wasn't getting paranoid.†   (source)
  • He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man.†   (source)
  • I'd wander around the neighborhood paranoid, avoiding everyone I knew until the high wore off.†   (source)
  • I'm on a street corner arguing with a paranoid schizophrenic, and because I don't know what to say next, I say good-bye.†   (source)
  • He became depressed and paranoid and accused son John of orchestrating a "coup" to remove him from the firm.†   (source)
  • He lit it and they consumed it, lungs burning, and the first thing that struck her was that this weed was much stronger than the hash back home, and she was quite floored by its effects, and also well on her way to becoming a little paranoid, and finding it difficult to speak.†   (source)
  • She told me how paranoid he was about her screwing around, that he used to read her emails, check up on her.†   (source)
  • Hmph, the Russians are all supposed to be paranoid—not this boy.†   (source)
  • "So," Mrs. Biscoe said, fluffing that same piece of hair again as she jerked me out of this paranoid reverie, "how did you meet our Roger-son?"†   (source)
  • But, naturally, he was paranoid about the idea of letting a whole bunch of unknown quantities onto his ship.†   (source)
  • He wanted to tell her so much, wanted to tell her even though he knew that a ravening paranoid like Annie would reject what was so obvious.†   (source)
  • They accused him of telling paranoid lies and of stealing paintings from the National Museum to hang in his mistress's bedroom.†   (source)
  • More and more frequent visits are occurring at the house, and Phillip is becoming more and more frustrated and paranoid.†   (source)
  • Mclean Hospital Page.... e 90 KAYSEN, Susanna DISCHARGE ON VISIT SUMMARY: Formal Diagnosis: Schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type (borderline) — currently in remission.†   (source)
  • He's paranoid as far as I'm concerned.†   (source)
  • I wasn't paranoid to the point that I thought Patch meant me harm, but somehow, my medical condition was a vulnerability that felt better kept secret.†   (source)
  • "What's wrong with him?" someone asked and Duke said, He's just getting paranoid, I guess, and the words were so big, they filled the room up and pressed him against the wall.†   (source)
  • You're being paranoid, I told myself.†   (source)
  • Far from reassuring her, this only made Annie feel so paranoid that she had to fight a sudden urge to catch the next train to town.†   (source)
  • I Held Tight to his shirt all the way home, clung fast like a paranoid kitten.†   (source)
  • The belief that agribusiness executives secretly talk on the phone with their competitors, set prices, and divide up the worldwide market for commodities — a belief widely held among independent ranchers and farmers — may seem like a paranoid fantasy.†   (source)
  • In the Slammer, they become paranoid, convinced that the Army bureaucracy has forgotten about them, has left them to rot.†   (source)
  • Maybe you're just paranoid.†   (source)
  • I mean, I'm not just being paranoid, am I?†   (source)
  • I guess you think I'm some sort of a sick paranoid, but I can't afford to have people calling my job or writing letters to my principal.†   (source)
  • More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.†   (source)
  • You're paranoid," Rik said.†   (source)
  • The paranoid, monstrous Thomas of the public's imagination comes into view.†   (source)
  • You say you hate the Clave, but you're the one who made them what they are now—petty and paranoid.†   (source)
  • Then, feeling paranoid (probably another side effect of the pot invasion) I looked around the circle, sure I'd see a professor who was ready to leap in and haul us all away to ....to ....I dunno, something unspeakably horrid, like the boot camp Maury sends all of his troubled teen guests to.†   (source)
  • You mean paranoid schizophrenic?†   (source)
  • For the first time here, I'm paranoid about falling.†   (source)
  • Trout's paranoid face was terribly familiar to Billy, who had seen it on the jackets of so many books.†   (source)
  • He knew he wasn't part of some superficial state that people like to borrow from when they say they're feeling paranoid.†   (source)
  • I know how silly and paranoid that sounds, especially coming from a man who gets a perverse thrill from taking chances.†   (source)
  • It seems like every time I go to his office there are more and more people, but that, of course, is just paranoid me.†   (source)
  • Moody was ever vigilant, paranoid about my every action.†   (source)
  • He had suspected this—dreaded this— but had nevertheless harbored a slim hope that Rowan's quarantine had just been a paranoid measure.†   (source)
  • Every crazy, paranoid thing that Nora had ever told me was screaming for attention inside my head.†   (source)
  • Jenks was always paranoid about people ripping him off.†   (source)
  • Paranoid, he was noticing other noises and rattles, and he was checking the tires every other day as the treads grew thinner.†   (source)
  • But in a world where the banks and supermarkets are used by gangs as local torture stations, being a little paranoid is actually an advantage.†   (source)
  • I guess I was just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • She'd seen it before—a kind of paranoid possessiveness—but Abee brought it to a whole new level on Friday night.†   (source)
  • If you ask me, East Washington's been paranoid since the terrorist hit.†   (source)
  • Have I ever mentioned you're paranoid?†   (source)
  • "I probably should have smoked some just to make friends, but I didn't want to get any more paranoid than I already felt," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • If you must come south, travel with a small force— The Commandant shifts, and I tear my eyes away, paranoid that I've been too obvious.†   (source)
  • And I may be slightly paranoid, but I thought I saw Jenny looking at me like she'd like to have me murdered or something.†   (source)
  • What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise!†   (source)
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paranoid used clinically

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  • Excessive or prolonged use of the drug can cause paranoid delusions.
  • The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
  • In a civilized world where there are laws, banks, and supermarkets, being a paranoid schizophrenic is a major problem.   (source)
    paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • And the homeless lady, a paranoid schizophrenic, who would lie down on a pew as if on a park bench -- the church authorities had finally decided they had to throw her out.   (source)
  • It is also my duty to remind the court that Lisbeth Salander has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.   (source)
  • It was perhaps in another such fit of paranoia that Dad fired my mother's sister Angie.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
  • I consider her to be withdrawn, but not a paranoid sociopath.   (source)
    paranoid = suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • Its very existence confirms all documentary evidence that she is a paranoid schizophrenic.   (source)
    paranoid = someone suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • He assumes that my client is a paranoid schizophrenic and mentally ill in every sense.   (source)
  • Then a series of notes claiming that Salander was paranoid and a schizophrenic.   (source)
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  • But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions.   (source)
    paranoid = relating to a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
  • I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.   (source)
  • My parents were one of the largest employers in the county, but from what I could tell Dad's mental state made it difficult for him to maintain employees long-term: when he had a fit of paranoia, he tended to fire people with little cause.   (source)
  • I would hesitate to confine myself to an exact diagnosis, but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics.   (source)
    paranoid = relating to a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • No. The man is a tragic figure who evidently acted alone, in accordance with his own paranoid delusions.   (source)
    paranoid = suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • It's full of such outrageous accusations of rape and violation of her civil rights that it will come across as the ravings of a paranoid personality.   (source)
    paranoid = of a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • And based on this complete picture you came to the conclusion that Lisbeth suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.   (source)
    paranoid = a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • Taken as a whole, her written explanation confirms our suspicions that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.   (source)
  • One can conclude that the patient's paranoid traits have progressed to such an extent that she is literally incapable of having a simple conversation with anyone in authority.   (source)
    paranoid = relating to a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • "To sum up," Ekström said, leafing through his sheaf of papers, "it is your judgement as a psychiatrist of long standing that Lisbeth Salander suffers from paranoid schizophrenia?"   (source)
    paranoid = a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • Teleborian, who had many years of experience with the patient, had determined that Salander was suffering from a serious mental disturbance and employed terms such as psychopathy, pathological narcissism, and paranoid schizophrenia.   (source)
    paranoid = relating to a disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • Manic-depressive or paranoid?   (source)
    paranoid = suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others
  • They say I'm paranoia, I'm schizophrenia, I'm nervous.   (source)
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  • Francois asked whether I was embarrassed by the previous day's display of paranoia.†   (source)
  • It seemed better that it remained a figment of Chuck's paranoia.†   (source)
  • You're all full of schemes and rebellions, crazy with fear and paranoia, even jealousy.†   (source)
  • Bob actually looked a little nervous, which I was later told was paranoia.†   (source)
  • Of course he's going to get depressed, and work himself into a state of madness and paranoia.†   (source)
  • It went on to talk about a five —to seven-day incubation period and the symptoms—how such things as irritability and trouble with balance were early warning signs, followed by dementia, paranoia and severe aggression later on.†   (source)
  • He needed to gorge his paranoia.†   (source)
  • I see the paranoia rising in Mother's eyes.†   (source)
  • The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn't safe at home, not with all those guns around.†   (source)
  • He now kept them on his bulletin board as examples of how even respectable news organizations sometimes got carried away with Illuminati paranoia.†   (source)
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  • Then it was an explosion—now a few bullets have shattered diamondglass, revealing fear and paranoia beneath.†   (source)
  • Such minor paranoias were soothing to him.†   (source)
  • I think this is the perfect time for paranoia and distrust.†   (source)
  • If he did anything like that, I might have some doubt; I might rethink the whole this-is-an-alien-headfake thing and conclude I am suffering from paranoia and battle-induced hysteria.†   (source)
  • "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia.†   (source)
  • But it would be a lie to say that paranoia didn't take over before the end of the day.†   (source)
  • If I'd been less tanked, his paranoia might have made me angry, but I only thought it was hilarious.†   (source)
  • No, now I am going crazy, slipping into some state of paranoia.†   (source)
  • I try to will back another bout of paranoia.†   (source)
  • We've never had a conversation about my paranoia, because we're pretending to be in love and I'm pretending not to be frightened of her.†   (source)
  • Maybe I should give him the same paranoia he gave me.†   (source)
  • A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia.†   (source)
  • —THE AVETT BROTHERS, "PARANOIA IN B-FLAT MAJOR"†   (source)
  • Paranoia swept over me again.†   (source)
  • She and my father brought a curious blend of Jewish-European and African-American distrust and paranoia into our house.†   (source)
  • Suspicion, if not paranoia, is a perfectly logical response.†   (source)
  • Among the most progressive alienists, this kind of unfounded belief was known as a delusion, associated with a newly identified disorder called paranoia.†   (source)
  • Paranoids, schizoids, cycloids, semicatatonics, men who claimed to have gone to heaven in flying saucers, women who had burned their children's sex organs off with Bic lighters, alcoholics, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, manic-depressives, suicidals.†   (source)
  • And then the paranoia came, that feeling I've had almost all the time I've lived in this house, of being watched.†   (source)
  • Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure if it was paranoia or lice.†   (source)
  • His paranoia level is way up, and so he glances back and forth as he pilots His way out of there, looking up all the little alleys.†   (source)
  • I had forgotten that stuff about paranoia in that magazine Lorraine gave me to read about seven months ago.†   (source)
  • I walked around and made myself play some games and dial down my paranoia.†   (source)
  • Or was this paranoia?†   (source)
  • Roran thanked his paranoia that he had insisted on having the animals scattered along the edge of the meadow, where the trees and brush helped to camouflage them from unfriendly eyes.†   (source)
  • I was hiding out in a stall with my paranoia, my feet pulled up onto the toilet seat, waiting for the fourth period bell, in the event Dale figured me for senior editor of our underground gazette and came for his pound of flesh.†   (source)
  • The page was long and gave off some serious conspiracy-theory paranoia vibes.†   (source)
  • I'm seized with this paranoia, not even so much that I'll get photographed or hounded by a mob of autograph seekers—though I really don't want to deal with that right now—but that I'll be mocked as the only person in the entire park who's alone, even though this obviously isn't the case.†   (source)
  • "That place is Paranoia Palace," she said.†   (source)
  • The side effects, both short term and long term, are horrifying: increased blood pressure and heart rate, anxiety and paranoia, insomnia, severe depression, delirium, psychosis, auditory and tactile hallucinations, respiratory failure, brain seizures, heart attack, stroke, and sudden death.†   (source)
  • We suspected he had Marburg, but we didn't have the paranoia we had had with Dr. Musoke.†   (source)
  • It's the first hint of paranoia I've seen.†   (source)
  • But that was just her paranoia surfacing again.†   (source)
  • Yet it seems I have been accused of a multitude of things, of jealousy and paranoia, of not being man enough to satisfy my wife, of having relations with male friends of mine, of holding my cigarette in an affected manner, even-it seems to me-accused of having nothing between my legs but a patch of hair-and soft and downy and blond hair at that!†   (source)
  • I mean, he said it before and I just dismissed it as paranoia and hatred.†   (source)
  • But Lenny's paranoia and sense of tragedy may have had a more immediate source.†   (source)
  • I suppose my lifelong paranoia was born in those cold, molasses-slow minutes.†   (source)
  • He seems to notice neither my flaming cheeks nor my advanced state of nervous paranoia.†   (source)
  • I did not know anything about prison politics, but there was a fine line between Shay's paranoia and what might pass for the truth.†   (source)
  • Many people refused to reveal theirs, whether out of paranoia or simply because they didn't want it observed by others.†   (source)
  • It's just that her brand of paranoia makes her fear supernatural predators more than natural ones.†   (source)
  • Light, scattered paranoia increasing to moderate during the day.†   (source)
  • "Congresswoman DeBlass has also been treated for symptoms of depression, paranoia, and stress," the lawyer continued in the same neutral tone.†   (source)
  • Part of me felt ashamed for even having that thought, and part of me remembered how many times my adorable paranoia had saved our butts.†   (source)
  • One more day of paranoia and hiding and lying.†   (source)
  • Although Congress cut off most immigration in 1924, this wave of linguistic discrimination, or paranoia, passed.†   (source)
  • That's a crock of paranoia—†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just my own paranoia, but I had the feeling that the others were blaming me for the tough position we were in.†   (source)
  • Paranoia was setting in.†   (source)
  • More paranoia, he chided himself, trudging along the pathway that led from the football field to the gym.†   (source)
  • Wasn't he letting his fear run away with him again, succumbing to paranoia?†   (source)
  • Puller now wondered if paranoia had been added to his father's list of issues.†   (source)
  • Paranoia took over during his downward swings.†   (source)
  • This brought on a downward spiral of mental instability, dramatized in spending sprees, paranoia, and delusions—once she almost jumped out of a building after wrongly believing she saw flames consuming the structure.†   (source)
  • The beetle was busy behind Tyler's head, which was causing him increasing paranoia.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered how she'd looked at him—how I was certain she'd never looked at me that way—and my paranoia once again kicked in.†   (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†   (source)
  • He lacked all capacity for sustained worry or the distraught vigilance that comes from paranoia.†   (source)
  • Either Oedipa in the orbiting ecstasy of a true paranoia, or a real Tristero.†   (source)
  • So that was it, I thought in wonder, that was behind those seizures of rage, of seething violence, of paranoia.†   (source)
  • We had not known that he was being eaten up by paranoia, and the discovery that his cruelty, to our bodies and our minds, had been one of the symptoms of his illness was not, then, enough to enable us to forgive him.†   (source)
  • What's the password?" and, getting no answer from the only foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.†   (source)
  • You're seeing conspiracies, exchanging someone else's freedom to feed your paranoia.†   (source)
  • Those neurotransmitters are sputtering, teasing out his anger, insecurity, paranoia.†   (source)
  • Paranoia that they might be eavesdropped on gripped him.†   (source)
  • —THE AVETT BROTHERS, "PARANOIA IN B-FLAT MAJOR"†   (source)
  • If that isn't enough to give an animal paranoia, I don't know what is.†   (source)
  • Finally I got silly, because I'd given it all up as nothing more than an attack of paranoia.†   (source)
  • From paranoia to poetry, sirens to violins, madness to genius.†   (source)
  • She was psychotic, showed obsessive behaviour, and was obviously suffering from paranoia.†   (source)
  • Nice little sign of paranoia, Eve thought.†   (source)
  • I glance at the door, more from paranoia than an actual concern that someone is listening in.†   (source)
  • I tried to ignore the paranoia as much as possible.†   (source)
  • The list was endless, an exercise in paranoia.†   (source)
  • He felt a shiver of paranoia but assumed that maybe he wasn't thinking straight.†   (source)
  • Being homeless as a teenager, however briefly, had left her with a healthy sense of paranoia.†   (source)
  • Or maybe that had just been my total paranoia coming in handy again.†   (source)
  • In the gossamer stillness, my paranoia ratchets up.†   (source)
  • I'd recognized him — years of paranoia had honed my ability to remember faces.†   (source)
  • She senses the paranoia of the web, the net.†   (source)
  • With paranoia and insecurity like Jordan's, or with a strong-minded obsession like Abby's?†   (source)
  • I never thought I'd be grateful for her paranoia, but I am.†   (source)
  • The name Ringer gives her paranoia a nudge.†   (source)
  • In all his life, he had never previously been in the grip of paranoia such as this.†   (source)
  • In the endless estuarial mingling of paranoia and control, the dossier was an essential device.†   (source)
  • My paranoia was getting the better of me.†   (source)
  • Possibilities for paranoia become abundant.†   (source)
  • But knowing that Zeitoun's ordeal was caused instead by systemic ignorance and malfunction—and perhaps long-festering paranoia on the part of the National Guard and whatever other agencies were involved—was unsettling.†   (source)
  • The cellar windows, as if reflecting Annie's paranoia (and there was nothing strange about that, he thought; didn't all houses come, after awhile, to reflect the personalities of their inhabitants?)†   (source)
  • Her paranoia made a lot more sense now.†   (source)
  • Hello, paranoia.†   (source)
  • I wasn't on Facebook for reasons of paranoia and seldom looked at the news but still I couldn't imagine how I hadn't heard—except that, in recent weeks, I'd been worried about the shop to the point I thought of little else.†   (source)
  • My paranoia is fading.†   (source)
  • He supposed there was a certain symbolism in Annie's pantry , the ranks of goods had something to say about the murkiness of the borderline between the Sovereign State of Reality and the People's Republic of Paranoia.†   (source)
  • This kind of paranoia—†   (source)
  • PHASE TWO
    periods of euphoria; hysterical laughter and heightened energy periods of despair; lethargy
    changes in appetite; rapid weight loss or weight gain fixation; loss of other interests
    compromised reasoning skills; distortion of reality
    disruption of sleep patterns; insomnia or constant fatigue obsessive thoughts and actions
    paranoia; insecurity†   (source)
  • She felt a spark of paranoia, remembering that she still carried Peony's ID chip, stashed away in her leg compartment.†   (source)
  • It was the old paranoia.†   (source)
  • It's like paranoia in reverse when people are really calling you insulting things and you deliberately pretend they aren't.†   (source)
  • With paranoia on my heels
    Will you love me still
    When we awake and you see that
    The sanity has gone from my eyes?†   (source)
  • But in the meantime, our priority needs to be forming an alliance with Luna, not alienating it with paranoia and distrust.†   (source)
  • Paranoia, huh?†   (source)
  • I knew that because some magazine did a whole article on mental disturbances, and after I read the symptoms of each of them, I realized I had all of them—but most of all I had paranoia.†   (source)
  • And paranoia, too.†   (source)
  • She brushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear, her paranoia forcing her to act normal as the doors closed.†   (source)
  • They call that paranoia.†   (source)
  • I have fought it from the beginning, wanting to believe things would be different in the case of Mr. Ayers, and even now I hold on to the hope that he might one day get past his fears, past the cyclical descents into paranoia and rage, and give a try to medication that could vastly improve his life.†   (source)
  • The moon had always given her a sense of paranoia, like the people who lived up there could be watching her, and if she stared for too long, she might draw their attention.†   (source)
  • W ILL CAUSE FEELINGS OF EUPHORIA, PARANOIA, SEXUAL APPETITE, DELUSIONS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL POWERS.†   (source)
  • The military boys had gone for the day, and our hotshot security personnel in their limitless paranoia about secrecy hadn't rostered the Victoria Peak contingent.†   (source)
  • In contrast to the creeping terror and paranoia that were present everywhere on the streets of Durham and Chapel Hill, the early-morning businesspeople at the airport seemed oblivious to harm in their dark, pressed suits, their floral print dresses from Neiman Marcus and Dillard.†   (source)
  • She just hoped this wasn't a wild-goose chase, a symptom of Rex's beginning-of-the-school-year paranoia.†   (source)
  • Plus I didn't trust any of the other prisoners not to mess with me in some way, a very typical prison paranoia.†   (source)
  • I can almost feel the paranoia emanating from the walls, like the terminal itself is terrified of unfamiliar eyes.†   (source)
  • Detective paranoia?†   (source)
  • Now that was paranoia.†   (source)
  • The other kids were still looking at me, and paranoia made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.†   (source)
  • He knew he was letting his paranoia get the better of him again, but his mouth went dry, and his heartbeat increased.†   (source)
  • He thought of the photograph of Nixon and wondered if the state had taken on the paranoia of the individual or was it the other way around.†   (source)
  • Joe looked up, alarmed, wondering if the crew of the chopper was looking for him, but his fear was pure paranoia and unjustified.†   (source)
  • My father had a saying about paranoia.†   (source)
  • Or three, someone in the hotel knows about the bomb-children and was able to remove it, put it in a plastic baggie, and conduct a seminar on how to instill panic and paranoia among the dopey humans.†   (source)
  • Where the current of one's need for control met the tide of one's paranoia, this was where the dossier was reciprocally satisfying.†   (source)
  • Lately, KSB-22-09 is experiencing memory lapses and spells of paranoia, which are thought to be related to the long-term use of the sedative that he receives before bed each night.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, although wading deep in paranoia, he was still sane enough to realize that he carried with him the unspeakable things he had seen at the Delmann house—and that these horrors were visible in him.†   (source)
  • But also sinfully complicit with some process she only half understood, the force in the world, the array of systems that displaces religious faith with paranoia.†   (source)
  • And it produced rats and paranoia.†   (source)
  • In a world viewed through lenses of paranoia—a pair of distorting spectacles that he had been wearing with good reason for the past day and a half—every falling leaf, every whisper of wind, and every fretwork of shadows was invested with a portentous meaning that, in reality, it did not possess.†   (source)
  • She sees the shock wave and hears the high winds and feels the power of false faith, the faith of paranoia, and then the mushroom cloud spreads around her, the pulverized mass of radioactive debris, eight miles high, ten miles, twenty, with skirted stem and smoldng platinum cap.†   (source)
  • There's genuine paranoia.†   (source)
  • Despite my objections to Ted Stone's theories of apartheid, his paranoia about my long hair and the new morality, I enjoyed jogging down to his house, picking up my mail, and then swimming off his dock.†   (source)
  • What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.†   (source)
  • This might have been a reasonable decision had I been dealing with a beloved friend who had simply let his temper get out of hand, but hardly (and I was not yet beginning to acquire the first flicker of wisdom to realize it) a man in whom paranoia was a sudden rampaging guest.†   (source)
  • But I never took the drug, I chose to remain in relative paranoia, where at least I know who I am and who the others are.†   (source)
  • Talktalktalktalktalk ...It is like the sound track of a movie pieced together by a chimpanzee, in parts coherent but creating no design, making no final sense; its paranoia causes her to feel weak and ill.†   (source)
  • They drive north (more sedately) through bowers and overhanging clouds and raging storms of multichrome leaves in aerial frenzy—here belching color like blazing lava, there like exploding stars, all like nothing Sophie has ever seen or imagined—the pent-up muttering which she cannot comprehend becomes vocal, unleashed in a new spasm of paranoia.†   (source)
  • Or he might even have tried to survive deal h. as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy against someone he loved.†   (source)
  • Either way, they'll call it paranoia.†   (source)
  • But over the next century and a ha If the paranoia recedes, as they come to discover the secular Tristero.†   (source)
  • For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.†   (source)
  • I'm just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • 'You make them sound like a collection of paranoids,' interjected Panov.†   (source)
  • They stood at the window and heard the Paranoids singing.†   (source)
  • The Paranoids and their chicks may have been out of earshot.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be the group he'd mentioned, the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • "It's this group I'm in," Miles explained, "the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • "Maybe later," invited one of the other Paranoids shyly, "you could join us in the pool."†   (source)
  • Paranoids, every single one!†   (source)
  • "Hurry, hurry," called the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • On the doorsill the Paranoids, as we leave milk to propitiate the leprechaun, had set a fifth of Jack Daniel's.†   (source)
  • If she was going to she got no chance, for outside, all in a shuddering deluge of thick guitar chords, the Paranoids had broken into song.†   (source)
  • They accuse us of being paranoids.†   (source)
  • A snarl rose along with some smoke from among pleasure boats strung like piglets along the pier, indicating the Paranoids had indeed started someone's outboard.†   (source)
  • Paranoids and their chicks appeared against the bright sky, from behind turrets, gables, ventilating ducts, and moved in on the eggplant sandwiches in the basket.†   (source)
  • It was like walking on the head of a drum: they could hear their reverberations inside the hollow building beneath, and the delighted yelling of the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • The Paranoids had blown a fuse.†   (source)
  • The trip out was uneventful except lor two or three collisions the Paranoids almost had owing to Serge, the driver, not being able to see through his hair.†   (source)
  • Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger, published by The Lectern Press, Berkeley, California, back in 1957 She poured herself half a tumbler of Jack Daniel's (the Paranoids having left them a fresh bottle the evening before) and called the LA.†   (source)
  • Outside a fugue of guitars had begun, and she counted each electronic voice as it came in, till she reached six or so and recalled only three of the Paranoids played guitars; so others must be plugging in.†   (source)
  • The two of them, followed by a convertibleful of the Paranoids Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard and their chicks, had decided to spend the day out at Fangoso Lagoons, one of Inverarity's last big projects.†   (source)
  • The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of "Adeste Fideles": Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your bo-oat, Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your boat...grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.†   (source)
  • One rainy morning, with mist rising off the pool, Metzger again away, the Paranoids off somewhere to a recording session, Oedipa got rung up by this Genghis Cohen, who even over the phone she could tell was disturbed.†   (source)
  • The time in between had been whiled away with songs by the Paranoids, and juicing, and feeding pieces of eggplant sandwich to a flock of not too bright seagulls who'd mistaken Fangoso Lagoons for the Pacific, and hearing the plot of The Courier's Tragedy, by Richard Wharfinger, related near to unintelligible by eight memories unlooping progressively into regions as strange to map as their rising coils and clouds of pot smoke.†   (source)
  • "Paranoia," murmured the doctor.†   (source)
  • The erroneous belief that possessed him had become an itch of mistrust, a restless paranoia that drove him to pluck out any uncleanness that lay hidden or disguised in his vicinity, to hold it up to public disgrace.†   (source)
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