Word: paranoidly
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...remove dust from carved chair legs is with a Q-Tip. More than dreading a world in which it is considered O.K. to leave globs of toothpaste to dry in the sink, I fear the repercussions of never learning to be accountable for your own mess. Call me paranoid, but I started to fear that children who never feel the need to make their own bed would grow into adults who don't feel responsible for making their own happiness...
...Miss You card signed by co-workers they don't know--everyone is all over him. And if anyone knows what it is like to work hard and do your best and still get picked on by the media, it's me. That's mostly because I'm paranoid and self-aggrandizing, but still, it allows me to feel his pain...
...There is something at the heart of the Clinton personality and phenomenon that seems deeply disturbed. We've had presidents before who were unstable. Some of Lyndon Johnson's staff, including his gifted speechwriter Richard Goodwin, came to believe that at the end, in 1967-68, Johnson became clinically paranoid. Insiders and respectable observers thought Richard Nixon toward the end also became unstable and paranoid...
...Whitfield Diffie greeted his wife at the door with the words "I think I've made a great discovery." Diffie, a brilliant, eccentric and somewhat paranoid M.I.T. graduate, had spent the past few years wandering around the country in a beat-up Datsun 510 thinking about cryptography, the study of codes and ciphers. His discovery was a revolutionary technique called public key encryption that would rescue personal privacy in the Internet era by allowing data to be encoded quickly and easily. Steven Levy's meticulous Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (Viking...
Within the paranoid world of Survivor fandom, it is almost plausible that any revelation about the cow's brain--that crucial fact!--could lead some talented detective to the solution and bring down the house of cards. ("Raw cow's brain? Yes...it all fits! The winner is Colby!") Last year rabid fans scoured video stills and images swiped from CBS computers to glean clues, some accurate, some not, about which Survivor would next get booted. But Burnett played the would-be spoilers like a baby grand, impishly editing footage and planting red-herring files at the official website...