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  • Don't be paranoid. She doesn't even know you.
  • She said it had taken her years to convince Tyler to let her immunize their children, because some part of him still believed vaccines are a conspiracy by the Medical Establishment. ... How can he not see beyond their paranoia!   (source)
    paranoia = irrational fear
  • Every minute, every hour, there was worry, or more to the point, paranoia. Criminal activity will do that to a person, especially a child.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear
  • Roland lumbers back to his corner, but Connor's sure he's monitoring the conversation now, probably paranoid that they're plotting against him.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively fearful
  • He was seized with paranoia. "You win war, and you make all Japanese like black slaves!" he shouted at a POW.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear
  • He wondered if Zigzag was just being paranoid.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively suspicious or fearful
  • Was I paranoid to think that when she'd said human beings, what she really meant was me?   (source)
  • Mr. Hoo said the tea tasted funny, maybe they had all been poisoned. Denton Deere diagnosed paranoia.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear of others
  • I was getting paranoid.   (source)
    paranoid = excessively fearful
  • Hundreds of cages hung from the ceiling, with several seekers in each of them: Redd's bloodhounds, bred out of her distrust and paranoia; creatures with bird-of-prey bodies and the heads of blood-sucking insects.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear of others
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  • Am I still that notorious, or that paranoid?†   (source)
  • Him: Sorry i f I sound paranoid I just like posting there and don't want to have to delete it.†   (source)
  • You're paranoid is what you are—"†   (source)
  • "You're getting way too paranoid.†   (source)
  • Heavens no. The End of Days is a legend of paranoid minds.†   (source)
  • Maybe my parents were just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Talk about paranoid….†   (source)
  • You're paranoid," I say.†   (source)
  • I don't think that kind of thing matters, but supposedly Alice was paranoid about it all night.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, and the next and the next, I grew increasingly paranoid.†   (source)
  • That makes me paranoid in Savannah.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps paranoid," Chiron suggested.†   (source)
  • I know I'm being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Paranoid.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Nehemia wouldn't do anything—perhaps she was just being paranoid and ridiculous.†   (source)
  • I told him I was still grieving over our parents' deaths and got a little paranoid.†   (source)
  • Wheelwright was a Cambridge graduate; he'd played football with Oliver Cromwell—whose estimation of Wheelwright (as a football player) was both worshipful and paranoid.†   (source)
  • Stop being so paranoid.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm being paranoid, being a mother, but you just can't be too safe these days…… " And I sat there feeling as if my hair were coated with disease.†   (source)
  • She chided herself for feeling paranoid and immature, but she couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • He was a very paranoid man.†   (source)
  • "She's a bit paranoid, as I'm sure you've gathered."†   (source)
  • He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man.†   (source)
  • The more infected the killzone, the more paranoid and violent the behavior of the infected.†   (source)
  • And now I'm paranoid.†   (source)
  • She supposed paranoid types who required absolute privacy would find direct comms appealing, but even then, they would use a port or netscreen—a device that was set up for it.†   (source)
  • "Oh, the Paranoid Android," he said.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes began to develop as a fairly paranoid antiWarsaw writer.†   (source)
  • But" — minimal shrug—"they are new at this, and paranoid.†   (source)
  • But then I tell myself I'm just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Mind you, I suppose he's someone who does have reason to be paranoid.†   (source)
  • Foaly was a paranoid centaur, that human intelligence agencies were monitoring his and surveillance network.†   (source)
  • Or maybe I'm being paranoid.†   (source)
  • But my dad wouldn't get out, even though technically the loft belongs to my mom (thank God Carol Fernandez didn't put the loft's address in the paper; and thank God my mom is so paranoid about Jesse Helms siccing the CIA on sociopolitical artists like herself, in order to yank their NEA grants, that she keeps our phone number unlisted; no reporters have discovered the loft, so we can at least order in Chinese without fear of hearing a story on Extra on how much the Princess Amelia…†   (source)
  • You are paranoid.†   (source)
  • Mclean Hospital Page…. e 90 KAYSEN, Susanna DISCHARGE ON VISIT SUMMARY: Formal Diagnosis: Schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type (borderline) — currently in remission.†   (source)
  • I'd wander around the neighborhood paranoid, avoiding everyone I knew until the high wore off.†   (source)
  • They're probably paranoid and delusional.†   (source)
  • I hoped I wasn't getting paranoid.†   (source)
  • "So," Mrs. Biscoe said, fluffing that same piece of hair again as she jerked me out of this paranoid reverie, "how did you meet our Roger-son?"†   (source)
  • He became depressed and paranoid and accused son John of orchestrating a "coup" to remove him from the firm.†   (source)
  • "You're so paranoid.†   (source)
  • Maybe you become paranoid after a while, suspicious of everything and everyone, for no reason.†   (source)
  • They're so paranoid.†   (source)
  • The belief that agribusiness executives secretly talk on the phone with their competitors, set prices, and divide up the worldwide market for commodities — a belief widely held among independent ranchers and farmers — may seem like a paranoid fantasy.†   (source)
  • It was so paranoid …. so crazy…… My God, he thought, suddenly forgetting the shed, upstairs?†   (source)
  • Let's not get paranoid, Kris scolded herself.†   (source)
  • But she was so paranoid about Scott finding out.†   (source)
  • She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.†   (source)
  • Am I being too paranoid?†   (source)
  • Or am I being paranoid?†   (source)
  • He was delusional, paranoid, convinced a dark, evil force was coming from the heavens to take him.†   (source)
  • He lit it and they consumed it, lungs burning, and the first thing that struck her was that this weed was much stronger than the hash back home, and she was quite floored by its effects, and also well on her way to becoming a little paranoid, and finding it difficult to speak.†   (source)
  • "I'm just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I'm being paranoid.†   (source)
  • You've spent the last year paranoid about every dark alley, dark room, dark closet.†   (source)
  • The first is his 'paranoid' orientation toward the world.†   (source)
  • Moody was ever vigilant, paranoid about my every action.†   (source)
  • Maybe you're just paranoid.†   (source)
  • You mean paranoid schizophrenic?†   (source)
  • I Held Tight to his shirt all the way home, clung fast like a paranoid kitten.†   (source)
  • I've been careful, and careful at Blackcliff translates to paranoid for most people.†   (source)
  • In the Slammer, they become paranoid, convinced that the Army bureaucracy has forgotten about them, has left them to rot.†   (source)
  • "What's wrong with him?" someone asked and Duke said, He's just getting paranoid, I guess, and the words were so big, they filled the room up and pressed him against the wall.†   (source)
  • Then, feeling paranoid (probably another side effect of the pot invasion) I looked around the circle, sure I'd see a professor who was ready to leap in and haul us all away to …. to ….†   (source)
  • You're being paranoid, I told myself.†   (source)
  • You're paranoid," Rik said.†   (source)
  • Every crazy, paranoid thing that Nora had ever told me was screaming for attention inside my head.†   (source)
  • Hmph, the Russians are all supposed to be paranoid—not this boy.†   (source)
  • Paranoid.†   (source)
  • Everybody was paranoid.†   (source)
  • Even the dog noticed she was acting a little paranoid.†   (source)
  • "I probably should have smoked some just to make friends, but I didn't want to get any more paranoid than I already felt," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • One night after my father died, I had cried so much I started to become paranoid I was doing damage to my eyes, so I googled it.†   (source)
  • Jenks was always paranoid about people ripping him off.†   (source)
  • They accused him of telling paranoid lies and of stealing paintings from the National Museum to hang in his mistress's bedroom.†   (source)
  • The paranoid, monstrous Thomas of the public's imagination comes into view.†   (source)
  • I guess I was just being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm just paranoid.†   (source)
  • You say you hate the Clave, but you're the one who made them what they are now—petty and paranoid.†   (source)
  • Paranoid, he was noticing other noises and rattles, and he was checking the tires every other day as the treads grew thinner.†   (source)
  • "Were you paranoid before everyone was out to get you?" asked Lucky.†   (source)
  • I'm a little paranoid about flooding.†   (source)
  • What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise!†   (source)
  • "If you ask me, East Washington's been paranoid since the terrorist hit."†   (source)
  • I know how silly and paranoid that sounds, especially coming from a man who gets a perverse thrill from taking chances.†   (source)
  • Good point, even if you're paranoid.†   (source)
  • She thought I was being paranoid.†   (source)
  • Or maybe Annie was just being paranoid.†   (source)
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  • Excessive or prolonged use of the drug can cause paranoid delusions.
  • The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated.   (source)
    paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
  • It was perhaps in another such fit of paranoia that Dad fired my mother's sister Angie.   (source)
  • I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.   (source)
  • I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution.   (source)
  • My parents were one of the largest employers in the county, but from what I could tell Dad's mental state made it difficult for him to maintain employees long-term: when he had a fit of paranoia, he tended to fire people with little cause.   (source)
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  • Francois asked whether I was embarrassed by the previous day's display of paranoia.†   (source)
  • "You're seeing conspiracies, exchanging someone else's freedom to feed your paranoia."†   (source)
  • You're all full of schemes and rebellions, crazy with fear and paranoia, even jealousy.†   (source)
  • Bob actually looked a little nervous, which I was later told was paranoia.†   (source)
  • I see the paranoia rising in Mother's eyes.†   (source)
  • He needed to gorge his paranoia.†   (source)
  • He now kept them on his bulletin board as examples of how even respectable news organizations sometimes got carried away with Illuminati paranoia.†   (source)
  • If he did anything like that, I might have some doubt; I might rethink the whole this-is-an-alien-headfake thing and conclude I am suffering from paranoia and battle-induced hysteria.†   (source)
  • Such minor paranoias were soothing to him.†   (source)
  • Then it was an explosion—now a few bullets have shattered diamondglass, revealing fear and paranoia beneath.†   (source)
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  • The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn't safe at home, not with all those guns around.†   (source)
  • It went on to talk about a five— to seven-day incubation period and the symptoms—how such things as irritability and trouble with balance were early warning signs, followed by dementia, paranoia and severe aggression later on.†   (source)
  • I think this is the perfect time for paranoia and distrust.†   (source)
  • But it would be a lie to say that paranoia didn't take over before the end of the day.†   (source)
  • They say I'm paranoia, I'm schizophrenia, I'm nervous.†   (source)
  • "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia.†   (source)
  • If I'd been less tanked, his paranoia might have made me angry, but I only thought it was hilarious.†   (source)
  • No, now I am going crazy, slipping into some state of paranoia.†   (source)
  • I try to will back another bout of paranoia.†   (source)
  • Paranoids, schizoids, cycloids, semicatatonics, men who claimed to have gone to heaven in flying saucers, women who had burned their children's sex organs off with Bic lighters, alcoholics, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, manic-depressives, suicidals.†   (source)
  • She and my father brought a curious blend of Jewish-European and African-American distrust and paranoia into our house.†   (source)
  • Paranoia swept over me again.†   (source)
  • Maybe I should give him the same paranoia he gave me.†   (source)
  • Among the most progressive alienists, this kind of unfounded belief was known as a delusion, associated with a newly identified disorder called paranoia.†   (source)
  • Of course he's going to get depressed, and work himself into a state of madness and paranoia.†   (source)
  • His paranoia level is way up, and so he glances back and forth as he pilots His way out of there, looking up all the little alleys.†   (source)
  • I was hiding out in a stall with my paranoia, my feet pulled up onto the toilet seat, waiting for the fourth period bell, in the event Dale figured me for senior editor of our underground gazette and came for his pound of flesh.†   (source)
  • And then the paranoia came, that feeling I've had almost all the time I've lived in this house, of being watched.†   (source)
  • Those neurotransmitters are sputtering, teasing out his anger, insecurity, paranoia.†   (source)
  • A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia.†   (source)
  • We've never had a conversation about my paranoia, because we're pretending to be in love and I'm pretending not to be frightened of her.†   (source)
  • I mean, he said it before and I just dismissed it as paranoia and hatred.†   (source)
  • I suppose my lifelong paranoia was born in those cold, molasses-slow minutes.†   (source)
  • The page was long and gave off some serious conspiracy-theory paranoia vibes.†   (source)
  • Or was this paranoia?†   (source)
  • They call that paranoia.†   (source)
  • Hello, paranoia.†   (source)
  • One more day of paranoia and hiding and lying.†   (source)
  • But that was just her paranoia surfacing again.†   (source)
  • Yet it seems I have been accused of a multitude of things, of jealousy and paranoia, of not being man enough to satisfy my wife, of having relations with male friends of mine, of holding my cigarette in an affected manner, even-it seems to me-accused of having nothing between my legs but a patch of hair-and soft and downy and blond hair at that!†   (source)
  • We suspected he had Marburg, but we didn't have the paranoia we had had with Dr. Musoke.†   (source)
  • Paranoia that they might be eavesdropped on gripped him.†   (source)
  • Plus I didn't trust any of the other prisoners not to mess with me in some way, a very typical prison paranoia.†   (source)
  • In the endless estuarial mingling of paranoia and control, the dossier was an essential device.†   (source)
  • Paranoia was setting in.†   (source)
  • I walked around and made myself play some games and dial down my paranoia.†   (source)
  • Puller now wondered if paranoia had been added to his father's list of issues.†   (source)
  • The side effects, both short term and long term, are horrifying: increased blood pressure and heart rate, anxiety and paranoia, insomnia, severe depression, delirium, psychosis, auditory and tactile hallucinations, respiratory failure, brain seizures, heart attack, stroke, and sudden death.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure if it was paranoia or lice.†   (source)
  • It's the first hint of paranoia I've seen.†   (source)
  • -THE AVETT BROTHERS, "PARANOIA IN B-FLAT MAJOR"†   (source)
  • In contrast to the creeping terror and paranoia that were present everywhere on the streets of Durham and Chapel Hill, the early-morning businesspeople at the airport seemed oblivious to harm in their dark, pressed suits, their floral print dresses from Neiman Marcus and Dillard.†   (source)
  • I'm seized with this paranoia, not even so much that I'll get photographed or hounded by a mob of autograph seekers—though I really don't want to deal with that right now—but that I'll be mocked as the only person in the entire park who's alone, even though this obviously isn't the case.†   (source)
  • I did not know anything about prison politics, but there was a fine line between Shay's paranoia and what might pass for the truth.†   (source)
  • "Congresswoman DeBlass has also been treated for symptoms of depression, paranoia, and stress," the lawyer continued in the same neutral tone.†   (source)
  • "That's a crock of paranoia-"†   (source)
  • "That place is Paranoia Palace," she said.†   (source)
  • In all his life, he had never previously been in the grip of paranoia such as this.†   (source)
  • More paranoia, he chided himself, trudging along the pathway that led from the football field to the gym.†   (source)
  • I never thought I'd be grateful for her paranoia, but I am.†   (source)
  • Although Congress cut off most immigration in 1924, this wave of linguistic discrimination, or paranoia, passed.†   (source)
  • He lacked all capacity for sustained worry or the distraught vigilance that comes from paranoia.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just my own paranoia, but I had the feeling that the others were blaming me for the tough position we were in.†   (source)
  • Paranoia took over during his downward swings.†   (source)
  • Light, scattered paranoia increasing to moderate during the day.†   (source)
  • He seems to notice neither my flaming cheeks nor my advanced state of nervous paranoia.†   (source)
  • This brought on a downward spiral of mental instability, dramatized in spending sprees, paranoia, and delusions—once she almost jumped out of a building after wrongly believing she saw flames consuming the structure.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered how she'd looked at him—how I was certain she'd never looked at me that way—and my paranoia once again kicked in.†   (source)
  • The beetle was busy behind Tyler's head, which was causing him increasing paranoia.†   (source)
  • …intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit…†   (source)
  • Possibilities for paranoia become abundant.†   (source)
  • So that was it, I thought in wonder, that was behind those seizures of rage, of seething violence, of paranoia.†   (source)
  • We had not known that he was being eaten up by paranoia, and the discovery that his cruelty, to our bodies and our minds, had been one of the symptoms of his illness was not, then, enough to enable us to forgive him.†   (source)
  • "Paranoia is thick around here today," said David McClean.†   (source)
  • From paranoia to poetry, sirens to violins, madness to genius.†   (source)
  • With paranoia and insecurity like Jordan's, or with a strong-minded obsession like Abby's?†   (source)
  • It seemed better that it remained a figment of Chuck's paranoia.†   (source)
  • Finally I got silly, because I'd given it all up as nothing more than an attack of paranoia.†   (source)
  • Suspicion, if not paranoia, is a perfectly logical response.†   (source)
  • The list was endless, an exercise in paranoia.†   (source)
  • Or maybe that had just been my total paranoia coming in handy again.†   (source)
  • Nice little sign of paranoia, Eve thought.†   (source)
  • I glance at the door, more from paranoia than an actual concern that someone is listening in.†   (source)
  • I tried to ignore the paranoia as much as possible.†   (source)
  • He felt a shiver of paranoia but assumed that maybe he wasn't thinking straight.†   (source)
  • Being homeless as a teenager, however briefly, had left her with a healthy sense of paranoia.†   (source)
  • In the gossamer stillness, my paranoia ratchets up.†   (source)
  • She was psychotic, showed obsessive behaviour, and was obviously suffering from paranoia.†   (source)
  • But Lenny's paranoia and sense of tragedy may have had a more immediate source.†   (source)
  • I'd recognized him — years of paranoia had honed my ability to remember faces.†   (source)
  • It's just that her brand of paranoia makes her fear supernatural predators more than natural ones.†   (source)
  • If that isn't enough to give an animal paranoia, I don't know what is.†   (source)
  • My paranoia was getting the better of me.†   (source)
  • Wasn't he letting his fear run away with him again, succumbing to paranoia?†   (source)
  • She senses the paranoia of the web, the net.†   (source)
  • The name Ringer gives her paranoia a nudge.†   (source)
  • Either Oedipa in the orbiting ecstasy of a true paranoia, or a real Tristero.†   (source)
  • But knowing that Zeitoun's ordeal was caused instead by systemic ignorance and malfunction—and perhaps long-festering paranoia on the part of the National Guard and whatever other agencies were involved—was unsettling.†   (source)
  • The cellar windows, as if reflecting Annie's paranoia (and there was nothing strange about that, he thought; didn't all houses come, after awhile, to reflect the personalities of their inhabitants?†   (source)
  • …lethargy
    changes in appetite; rapid weight loss or weight gain fixation; loss of other interests
    compromised reasoning skills; distortion of reality
    disruption of sleep patterns; insomnia or constant fatigue obsessive thoughts and actions
    paranoia; insecurity
    PHASE THREE (CRITICAL)
    difficulty breathing
    pain in the chest, throat, or stomach
    difficulty swallowing; refusal to eat
    complete breakdown of rational faculties; erratic behavior; violent
    thoughts and fantasies;…†   (source)
  • This kind of paranoia—†   (source)
  • I wasn't on Facebook for reasons of paranoia and seldom looked at the news but still I couldn't imagine how I hadn't heard—except that, in recent weeks, I'd been worried about the shop to the point I thought of little else.†   (source)
  • It was the old paranoia.†   (source)
  • My paranoia is fading.†   (source)
  • She brushed a loose strand of hair behind her ear, her paranoia forcing her to act normal as the doors closed.†   (source)
  • He supposed there was a certain symbolism in Annie's pantry , the ranks of goods had something to say about the murkiness of the borderline between the Sovereign State of Reality and the People's Republic of Paranoia.†   (source)
  • Her paranoia made a lot more sense now.†   (source)
  • Now that was paranoia.†   (source)
  • She felt a spark of paranoia, remembering that she still carried Peony's ID chip, stashed away in her leg compartment.†   (source)
  • Paranoia, huh?†   (source)
  • But in the meantime, our priority needs to be forming an alliance with Luna, not alienating it with paranoia and distrust.†   (source)
  • And paranoia, too.†   (source)
  • The moon had always given her a sense of paranoia, like the people who lived up there could be watching her, and if she stared for too long, she might draw their attention.†   (source)
  • I have fought it from the beginning, wanting to believe things would be different in the case of Mr. Ayers, and even now I hold on to the hope that he might one day get past his fears, past the cyclical descents into paranoia and rage, and give a try to medication that could vastly improve his life.†   (source)
  • W ILL CAUSE FEELINGS OF EUPHORIA, PARANOIA, SEXUAL APPETITE, DELUSIONS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL POWERS.†   (source)
  • She just hoped this wasn't a wild-goose chase, a symptom of Rex's beginning-of-the-school-year paranoia.†   (source)
  • The military boys had gone for the day, and our hotshot security personnel in their limitless paranoia about secrecy hadn't rostered the Victoria Peak contingent.†   (source)
  • Part of me felt ashamed for even having that thought, and part of me remembered how many times my adorable paranoia had saved our butts.†   (source)
  • Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend†   (source)
  • Roran thanked his paranoia that he had insisted on having the animals scattered along the edge of the meadow, where the trees and brush helped to camouflage them from unfriendly eyes.†   (source)
  • I can almost feel the paranoia emanating from the walls, like the terminal itself is terrified of unfamiliar eyes.†   (source)
  • Detective paranoia?†   (source)
  • With paranoia on my heels
    Will you love me still
    When we awake and you see that
    The sanity has gone from my eyes?
    -THE AVETT BROTHERS, "PARANOIA IN B-FLAT MAJOR"
    EDDIE HAS NEVER BEEN INSIDE MY HOUSE BEFORE.†   (source)
  • Many people refused to reveal theirs, whether out of paranoia or simply because they didn't want it observed by others.†   (source)
  • I had forgotten that stuff about paranoia in that magazine Lorraine gave me to read about seven months ago.†   (source)
  • I keep tellin' myself
    That it'll be fine.
    You can't make everybody happy
    All of the time.
    —THE AVETT BROTHERS, "PARANOIA IN B-FLAT MAJOR"
    MY PULSE IS POUNDING AGAINST MY TEMPLES AS I CLIMB out of bed.†   (source)
  • The other kids were still looking at me, and paranoia made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.†   (source)
  • Joe looked up, alarmed, wondering if the crew of the chopper was looking for him, but his fear was pure paranoia and unjustified.†   (source)
  • He thought of the photograph of Nixon and wondered if the state had taken on the paranoia of the individual or was it the other way around.†   (source)
  • It's like paranoia in reverse when people are really calling you insulting things and you deliberately pretend they aren't.†   (source)
  • My father had a saying about paranoia.†   (source)
  • He knew he was letting his paranoia get the better of him again, but his mouth went dry, and his heartbeat increased.†   (source)
  • I knew that because some magazine did a whole article on mental disturbances, and after I read the symptoms of each of them, I realized I had all of them--but most of all I had paranoia.†   (source)
  • Lately, KSB-22-09 is experiencing memory lapses and spells of paranoia, which are thought to be related to the long-term use of the sedative that he receives before bed each night.†   (source)
  • Where the current of one's need for control met the tide of one's paranoia, this was where the dossier was reciprocally satisfying.†   (source)
  • Or three, someone in the hotel knows about the bomb-children and was able to remove it, put it in a plastic baggie, and conduct a seminar on how to instill panic and paranoia among the dopey humans.†   (source)
  • But also sinfully complicit with some process she only half understood, the force in the world, the array of systems that displaces religious faith with paranoia.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, although wading deep in paranoia, he was still sane enough to realize that he carried with him the unspeakable things he had seen at the Delmann house—and that these horrors were visible in him.†   (source)
  • And it produced rats and paranoia.†   (source)
  • In a world viewed through lenses of paranoia—a pair of distorting spectacles that he had been wearing with good reason for the past day and a half—every falling leaf, every whisper of wind, and every fretwork of shadows was invested with a portentous meaning that, in reality, it did not possess.†   (source)
  • She sees the shock wave and hears the high winds and feels the power of false faith, the faith of paranoia, and then the mushroom cloud spreads around her, the pulverized mass of radioactive debris, eight miles high, ten miles, twenty, with skirted stem and smoldng platinum cap.†   (source)
  • There's genuine paranoia.†   (source)
  • What's the password?" and, getting no answer from the only foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.†   (source)
  • Despite my objections to Ted Stone's theories of apartheid, his paranoia about my long hair and the new morality, I enjoyed jogging down to his house, picking up my mail, and then swimming off his dock.†   (source)
  • It is like the sound track of a movie pieced together by a chimpanzee, in parts coherent but creating no design, making no final sense; its paranoia causes her to feel weak and ill.†   (source)
  • Can't say I did; the usual violences, a tendency toward a slight paranoia here or there, usual in children because they feel persecuted by parents constantly, but, oh, really nothing.†   (source)
  • What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.†   (source)
  • Either way, they'll call it paranoia.†   (source)
  • This might have been a reasonable decision had I been dealing with a beloved friend who had simply let his temper get out of hand, but hardly (and I was not yet beginning to acquire the first flicker of wisdom to realize it) a man in whom paranoia was a sudden rampaging guest.†   (source)
  • But over the next century and a ha If the paranoia recedes, as they come to discover the secular Tristero.†   (source)
  • They drive north (more sedately) through bowers and overhanging clouds and raging storms of multichrome leaves in aerial frenzy—here belching color like blazing lava, there like exploding stars, all like nothing Sophie has ever seen or imagined—the pent-up muttering which she cannot comprehend becomes vocal, unleashed in a new spasm of paranoia.†   (source)
  • But I never took the drug, I chose to remain in relative paranoia, where at least I know who I am and who the others are.†   (source)
  • Or he might even have tried to survive deal h. as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy against someone he loved.†   (source)
  • For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.†   (source)
  • 'You make them sound like a collection of paranoids,' interjected Panov.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be the group he'd mentioned, the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • "It's this group I'm in," Miles explained, "the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • "Maybe later," invited one of the other Paranoids shyly, "you could join us in the pool."†   (source)
  • The Paranoids and their chicks may have been out of earshot.†   (source)
  • They stood at the window and heard the Paranoids singing.†   (source)
  • Paranoids, every single one!†   (source)
  • If she was going to she got no chance, for outside, all in a shuddering deluge of thick guitar chords, the Paranoids had broken into song.†   (source)
  • On the doorsill the Paranoids, as we leave milk to propitiate the leprechaun, had set a fifth of Jack Daniel's.†   (source)
  • "Hurry, hurry," called the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • The trip out was uneventful except lor two or three collisions the Paranoids almost had owing to Serge, the driver, not being able to see through his hair.†   (source)
  • They accuse us of being paranoids.†   (source)
  • It was like walking on the head of a drum: they could hear their reverberations inside the hollow building beneath, and the delighted yelling of the Paranoids.†   (source)
  • The Paranoids had blown a fuse.†   (source)
  • A snarl rose along with some smoke from among pleasure boats strung like piglets along the pier, indicating the Paranoids had indeed started someone's outboard.†   (source)
  • Paranoids and their chicks appeared against the bright sky, from behind turrets, gables, ventilating ducts, and moved in on the eggplant sandwiches in the basket.†   (source)
  • Outside a fugue of guitars had begun, and she counted each electronic voice as it came in, till she reached six or so and recalled only three of the Paranoids played guitars; so others must be plugging in.†   (source)
  • One rainy morning, with mist rising off the pool, Metzger again away, the Paranoids off somewhere to a recording session, Oedipa got rung up by this Genghis Cohen, who even over the phone she could tell was disturbed.†   (source)
  • Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger, published by The Lectern Press, Berkeley, California, back in 1957 She poured herself half a tumbler of Jack Daniel's (the Paranoids having left them a fresh bottle the evening before) and called the LA. library.†   (source)
  • The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of "Adeste Fideles": Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your bo-oat, Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your boat… grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.†   (source)
  • The two of them, followed by a convertibleful of the Paranoids Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard and their chicks, had decided to spend the day out at Fangoso Lagoons, one of Inverarity's last big projects.†   (source)
  • The time in between had been whiled away with songs by the Paranoids, and juicing, and feeding pieces of eggplant sandwich to a flock of not too bright seagulls who'd mistaken Fangoso Lagoons for the Pacific, and hearing the plot of The Courier's Tragedy, by Richard Wharfinger, related near to unintelligible by eight memories unlooping progressively into regions as strange to map as their rising coils and clouds of pot smoke.†   (source)
  • "Paranoia," murmured the doctor.†   (source)
  • The erroneous belief that possessed him had become an itch of mistrust, a restless paranoia that drove him to pluck out any uncleanness that lay hidden or disguised in his vicinity, to hold it up to public disgrace.†   (source)
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