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  • Suspicion turns toward the obvious: a psychopath is loose among us, probably killing with a pulse-blade or hellwhip.†   (source)
  • They later adopted the term "psychopath," used in the lay press as early as 1885 in William Stead's Pall Mall Gazette, which described it as a "new malady" and stated, "Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath."†   (source)
  • But I can't see him as a psychopath.†   (source)
  • "Which is odd, considering you are acting like a psychopath," he says.†   (source)
  • She can't just trade you away to a psychopath!†   (source)
  • So what if it was a class of eight and the eighth dog was a psychopathic pit bull that seemed intent on taking a human life at the first opportunity?†   (source)
  • The agent spoke softly, almost sweetly, his whisper bringing to mind that of a poet or a psychopath.†   (source)
  • If the patriarch had had anything to do with the disappearance of his brother's granddaughter, his actions over the past thirty-six years would fall into the psychopathic arena.†   (source)
  • Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand "how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to commit such a crime."†   (source)
  • That I'll forget my daughter is lying in a grave, while some psychopath is still alive and well.'†   (source)
  • In his mind, the decision to protect an innocent woman like Katie from a psychopath like Kevin was as clear as black and white—a simple choice.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure there's some sort of vetting process in place to make sure an actual psychopath doesn't make his way into the palace, yes?"†   (source)
  • Psychopath alert.†   (source)
  • She could be a psychopath who kills us in our sleep, or calls her League buddies in just when we let our guard down.†   (source)
  • The little psychopath had survived his trials with Lupa just fine, but as soon as he arrived at Camp Jupiter he had proved to be untrainable.†   (source)
  • "You're scared of Leah, but you're best buds with the psychopath blonde?"†   (source)
  • In the ceremony, the celebration, he finds something that drives him into psychopathic rage.†   (source)
  • My dad isn't a psychopath.†   (source)
  • For all the fear he's engendered he still remains a punk psychopath.†   (source)
  • He's a raging psychopath.†   (source)
  • "I get a case with a client who's innocent, and the victim's son turns out to be a psychopath.†   (source)
  • Only a crazy man, I thought, would care to err with all that to stand against him; and since medical records were all on file, even the psychopath could be stopped.†   (source)
  • In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which , eaten by fire, started the stove working again,hysterically hissing!†   (source)
  • We've simply been witness to the fading of his magnificent psychopathic suntan.   (source)
    psychopathic = related to a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
  • Psychopath with definite sadistic tendencies, probably motivated by an unreasoning egomania.   (source)
    psychopath = someone with a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
  • Don't you recognize the arch type of psychopath?   (source)
  • Why, see here, my friend Mr. McMurphy, my psychopathic sidekick, our Miss Ratched is a veritable angel of mercy and why just everyone knows it.   (source)
    psychopathic = related to a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
  • -and do you think, for all your acclaimed psychopathic powers, that you could effectively use your weapon against our champion?   (source)
  • My psychopathic tendencies?   (source)
  • He told me that psychopath means I fight and fuh-pardon me, ladies-means I am he put it overzealous in my sexual relations.   (source)
    psychopath = someone with a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
  • As a psychopath, he's much too fond of a Mr. Randle Patrick McMurphy to subject him to any needless danger.   (source)
  • When I get out of here the first woman that takes on ol' Red McMurphy the ten-thousand-watt psychopath, she's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!   (source)
  • Where it says, 'Mr. McMurphy has evidenced repeated'-I just want to make sure I'm understood completely, Doc-'repeated outbreaks of passion that suggest the possible diagnosis of psychopath.'   (source)
  • I don't agree that he should be sent up to Disturbed, which would simply be an easy way of passing our problem on to another ward, and I don't agree that he is some kind of extraordinary being-some kind of 'super' psychopath.   (source)
  • The fact that he smiled and waved doesn't mean anything, he could be a psychopath for all I know.†   (source)
  • If I was a psychopath, I would have killed you in your sleep by now.†   (source)
  • He himself had proclaimed her far and wide to be mentally imbalanced, a dangerous psychopath.†   (source)
  • The completely insane psychopath who was trying to eliminate most of the world's population!†   (source)
  • He's a murdering psychopath," said Alec flatly.†   (source)
  • According to the paperwork she is a developmentally disabled near-psychopath.†   (source)
  • There were no zombies, no ghosts, no psychopaths.†   (source)
  • Like a mild-mannered, homeless carpenter who becomes a psychopath?†   (source)
  • Could Naomi have been moved out here for some crazy, psychopathic reason?†   (source)
  • When I turn around to face her she's staring at me like I'm the psychopath.†   (source)
  • You don't know them—they could have been psychopaths!†   (source)
  • Just in case this was some joke by the blond psychopath and I had a bunch of girls' stuff here.†   (source)
  • Preferably fourth-rate garbage, a psychopath with a hang-up so heavy he goes after someone up here.†   (source)
  • I don't want you to think my dad is some kind of psychopath."†   (source)
  • He's got a psychopathic death wish to return to the people who first found out he was a maniac.†   (source)
  • Ekström was of the view that Salander suffered from a similar form of psychopathic disturbance.†   (source)
  • Have I mentioned how much I can't stand despotic psychopaths?†   (source)
  • Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?†   (source)
  • She had a brother, too, who was a total psychopath.†   (source)
  • She's more of an egomaniacal psychopath.†   (source)
  • We assume that Salander is a psychopath, but even psychopaths need motives.†   (source)
  • He hoped that the young man would not develop into a psychopath.†   (source)
  • Or were we being set up for some sick, psychopathic reason that I did't understand yet?†   (source)
  • That psychopathic ego of his is the basis for every thing Alex and I mounted.†   (source)
  • None did, and the outer regions of psychopathic energy became the order of the moment.†   (source)
  • "She's holding up very well, coming across as a complete psychopath.†   (source)
  • She, a child all by herself, tried to save her mother's life and defend her against a psychopath.†   (source)
  • Then what happened was that Zalachenko proved himself to be a psychopath on a grand scale.†   (source)
  • A journalist named Blomkvist had described Niedermann as a pathological murderer and a psychopath.†   (source)
  • My father was a psychopath, killer, and batterer whose name was Alexander Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • One little girl with two psychopaths in a deserted summer cabin?†   (source)
  • We assume that Salander is a psychopath, but even psychopaths need motives.†   (source)
  • Luckily, when he was drunk, his footsteps slowed to a jarring and unmistakable cadence—Frankenstein steps, as I thought of them, deliberate and clumping, with absurdly long pauses between each footfall—and as soon as I realized it was only him thudding around out there in the dark and not some serial murderer or psychopath, I would drift back into a fretful doze.†   (source)
  • Half a century later, in his path-breaking book The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly….†   (source)
  • By then her casebook was filled with terms such as introverted, socially inhibited, lacking in empathy, ego-fixated, psychopathic and asocial behaviour, difficulty in cooperating, and incapable of assimilating learning.†   (source)
  • At the next theater, ten or twelve blocks down, it was the same story: the CIA film had started, as had the well-reviewed biopic of a 1940s leading lady; the French cop movie didn't start for another hour and a half; and unless I wanted the psychopath film or the searing family drama, which I didn't, it was more brides and bachelor parties and Santa hats and Pixar.†   (source)
  • People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as "Cleckley" psychopaths.†   (source)
  • It is one of the defining characteristics of psychopaths that as children they lied at will, exhibited unusual cruelty to animals and other children, and often engaged in acts of vandalism, with arson an especially favored act.†   (source)
  • Not a murdering psychopath.†   (source)
  • Whatever might surface from whatever source would be categorized and substantiated as the incoherent ramblings of a crippled, psychopathic alcoholic.†   (source)
  • In the book, she'd learned that the central character, Hannibal Lecter, wasn't psychopathic, he was sociopathic; it was the first time she'd realized there was a difference between the two.†   (source)
  • As had been the case with the previous diary entries, the killer supplied the precise location of a murdered woman's body before starting into his obsessive, psychopathic message for her.†   (source)
  • The motive being a psychopathic hatred, or possibly a combination of hatred and thievery, and he believed that the commission of the murders had been a leisurely labor, with perhaps two or more hours elapsing between the entrance of the killers and their exit.†   (source)
  • When her sister called up indignant and spouting about the Bill of Rights, had Diana thought that her nephew was going to grow up to become a psychopath?†   (source)
  • Three billion women with ovaries on this planet, and I had to get the one voted 'most likely to become a delusional psychopath' as my mom."†   (source)
  • Had he thought it all through, dreamed about it, and then done it in some burst of psychopathic fury and energy?†   (source)
  • "Psychopathic ingrate," mumbled Panov.†   (source)
  • He had been called down from Seattle to gather all the available information on Rudolph, then match it against known data on other psychopaths.†   (source)
  • Leaving aside the reasons why they are what they are-which can range from a justifiable cause to the psychopathic megalomania of a Jackal-you keep the charades going because they're playing out their own.†   (source)
  • My protective Bureau believes I had a threatening call from an old adversary known to be a psychopath.†   (source)
  • All claims that she was a psychopath had to go, but that meant that her story would be strengthened all the way back to 1991.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the psychopath had returned to Paris, somehow convinced that his paranoid suspicions were groundless, Rodchenko raised his hand for the waiter; he would order coffee and brandy-the decent French brandy reserved for the true heroes of the Revolution, especially the survivors.†   (source)
  • He had given a lecture on psychiatric disturbances when she was in her last term at the police academy, and on another occasion at a course he had spoken about psychopaths and psychopathic behaviour in young people.†   (source)
  • There were psychopaths and conspiracy theorists, nutcases who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world.†   (source)
  • He did not at first recognize the psychopath whose passport photograph had been plastered outside every Pressbyra kiosk since Easter.†   (source)
  • You claim that her relationship with her friend Miriam Wu 'confirms the misgivings about a sexual psychopathy.'†   (source)
  • PSYCHOPATH SOUGHT FOR TRIPLE KILLING He bought both the evening papers and the morning ones too and then went over to a cafeteria.†   (source)
  • Teleborian, who had many years of experience with the patient, had determined that Salander was suffering from a serious mental disturbance and employed terms such as psychopathy, pathological narcissism, and paranoid schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • He was sorry that Bjurman had been murdered—and by that psychopath—but he didn't plan to go to the funeral.†   (source)
  • He had gone on burrowing through the years of confrontation between the social welfare bureaucracy and Salander—what he called the "psychopath trail"—and he had managed to assemble quite a body of material.†   (source)
  • My friend, I don't recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.†   (source)
  • He had given a lecture on psychiatric disturbances when she was in her last term at the police academy, and on another occasion at a course he had spoken about psychopaths and psychopathic behaviour in young people.†   (source)
  • In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which, eaten by fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!†   (source)
  • He has this unpredictable, psychopath brain that you can't read.†   (source)
  • "Because he's a psychopath."†   (source)
  • "Look at this crazy dude," he yelled, pointing at Klaus Kinski, who on the cover is wearing a Viking helmet and looks like a psychopath.†   (source)
  • I was sitting there realizing that while I liked Mr. McCarthy, I was also deeply terrified of him and suspected that he might actually be a psychopath.†   (source)
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