Word: hypochondria
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...lose his job, I say: 'You know, nothing in life is certain. This is a period of change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were you I'd prepare for them.' " He also tries to discourage what Client Robert Cummings calls "astrological hypochondria." Says Righter: "If all they want to know is what color suit or dress to wear, I cut them off, and I just won't talk to them again until they straighten...
...course, Argan is in perfectly good health, his hypochondria being simply the most obvious out-growth of his tyrannical self-assertion over the members of his household. His tyranny becomes critical when, early in the play, it brings him into opposition with his daughter's plans to marry. The daughter, Angelique, wants to marry Cleante, but Argan, without consulting her, arranges for her marriage to Thomas Diafoirus, the son of one of his doctors. Needless to say, Cleante is a young Achilles, and Thomas Diafoirus a big booby. Throughout the first three quarters of the play, Argan perseveres...
...standing in the way of his daughter's love, he replies, "Because I'm king of my own castle and I do what I think fit." On stage his source of strength should be this single-minded devotion to his role as the father of the family and the hypochondria that springs from it. Instead, Goldfinger seems always to be squealing with delight or in protest; he seems to be playing at being Argan, but never quite getting inside...
...feeling of despondency, almost municipal hypochondria, had settled over...
...confidence of both its investors and its residents: only two buildings of any significance had been built in Boston in over 35 years; major insurance companies across America would not loan money in Boston; our credit rating had been recently changed; and a feeling of despondency, almost municipal hypochondria had settled over the City. It was necessary, as I saw it, to do three things simultaneously, with perhaps more haste than one might have chosen to use had other options been available...