Word: paranoidly
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...photographs in all, divided into six sets. Each set of photographs (see cut) contains the face of 1) an epileptic; 2) a manic depressive in a depressed state; 3) a manic depressive in a manic state; 4) a sadist; 5) a catatonic (completely withdrawn) schizophrenic; 6) a paranoid (active, with delusions of persecution) schizophrenic; 7) a homosexual; 8) a hysteric...
...things, that the "most disgraceful colonial problem in the world" is that of Negro-white relations in the U.S. Indian politics, always a great puzzle to Occidentals, seemed to him likewise a puzzle to Indians, because their political terminology was a misfit hand-me-down from the British. The paranoid touchiness in all the Indian factions, but especially in Pakistan's Moslems, he likened to what he called group or "institutional delusions" throughout the world, to be corrected only by "a discipline whereby the normal man can train himself to be something healthier than a normal man, to become...
...hounds them expertly through a hotel lobby, a railway station, a train. But thanks to Ben Hecht's script, the real hue & cry is in the hero's mind. Miss Bergman, disguised in hornrimmed glasses, scrambles grimly after Hero Peck through the dark corridors of his paranoid guilt complex. The result is often good entertainment, but it does not tingle with Hitchcock's usual sustained suspense. There is always the suspicion that there's a doctor in the house...
Fear. Before the war Hess was a paranoid, hoped to retire to the Bavarian Alps for rest and nerve repair. As the months of captivity passed in Scotland, he developed a persecution mania. "They" were trying to "choke me." Sometimes when he said this his hands would fly to his throat and he would stagger backward, screaming. A psychologist finally learned who "they" were: the people of Europe. Screamed Hess: "Like grass, they grow, higher and higher. They think we are evil and they hate us. The war goes on longer and they get stronger and stronger. From all over...
...roomin-house districts breed paranoid schizophrenia-a split personality given to delusions of persecutions and grandeur, hallucinations, indifference to environment...