Word: neuroticisms
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. . . Although Schweitzer can certainly be considered a man of character ... his "rev-erence-for-life" theme is decidedly and unfortunately neurotic . . . The tearing of leaves from a tree, the shattering of ice crystals and the cutting of flowers . . . the avoidance of unwittingly damaging weeds at a roadside -all of these...
"Today, the widely publicized cancer campaigns [and] the overzealous, inexperienced routineers who man many clinics . . . who heedlessly and needlessly frighten patients, are rapidly increasing individual panic into a national stampede. Unchecked, this movement will leave in its wake a wide swath of hopelessly neurotic persons, of disabled and unnecessarily mutilated...
As Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between...
As Arnold Boult, Tracy misses much of the substance and savor of the role. His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated...
At the age of 70, with almost neurotic zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James...