Word: hypochondriacal
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SEND ME NO FLOWERS. Rock Hudson is an exurban hypochondriac who persuades himself that the hereafter is at hand, Doris Day is his widow-to-be, and Tony Randall is the sprightly crapehanger next door...
SEND ME NO FLOWERS. As a suburban hypochondriac who feels the end is nigh, Rock Hudson prepares Wife Doris Day for widowhood, while Tony Randall keeps the fun alive as a macabre neighbor...
...girl of middle-class English parents who was born and grows up in a British colony in Africa. Her name, Martha Quest, is recognized first as lame symbolism and then as intentional irony. Martha is not questing for anything. Her father is an unsuccessful farmer and a passionate hypochondriac her mother is a graceless worshipper of convention...
...which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...
Winnie was a joke on the society scene. At 51, her beauty faded, she was a hopeless hypochondriac who existed on spaghetti and prunes, found it difficult to get up in the morning and impossible to get to sleep at night. She complained that she was too weak to wash or comb her hair or care for her pets-two pedigreed dogs, a huge cage of exotic birds, and a vast aquarium of equally exotic fish. So the dogs dirtied her room, the birds died, and the aquarium was carpeted with dead fish...