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University police officials took the threat seriously enough to discuss it with the local mental-health agency. But state law does not permit extended commitment unless there is a likelihood that the person will hurt himself or others. Two Washington psychiatric evaluations earlier this year characterized Lang as "a paranoid schizophrenic [and] seriously psychotic," but one of them concluded: "We have no reason to believe that she shows a significant likelihood of dangerous behavior to those around her." Last week in a Manhattan office that prognosis proved to be fatally flawed. --By William J. Mitchell. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New...
...powerful mystics (called Travelers) and badass sword-wielding ninjas (known as Harlequins) who protect the Travelers; in the other is that shadowy organization the Tabula. At stake? The fate of civilization. Of course, this is all completely nuts--but it's also the stuff that first-rate high-tech paranoid-schizophrenic thrillers are made...
...life you might expect an egghead lefty policy wonk with a supernatural body to live. He explores the world and does good deeds where he can. Past stories follow him climbing Mount Everest, working to save a family farm and being hired out as the bodyguard of a paranoid rock star. Using the tropes of the superhero genre, where Concrete often finds himself thrust into life-or-death adventures, Chadwick weaves in broader themes of the environment and social issues, along with the humorous quotidian details of Concrete's life as a walking boulder, such as his difficulties with unsupportive...
...feel that proctors go out of their way to look for underage drinking in freshman dorms,” Weitzen writes in an e-mail. “It is almost like the proctors are paranoid about having alcohol show up in their entry...
...Paranoid bureaucracy isn't unique to the Bush administration. It's everywhere here. On our way into screenings we have to pass through check points, which delays our finding seats by another tedious 30 seconds. The security guards are movie-star cute and astonishingly incompetent as they try to run their electronic batons over our purses. Why can't we frisk them? It's all they're good...