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  • Sinewy Savannah art-metal quartet Baroness rumble and shake in elegiac waves, recalling Neurosis and Isis with feral atmospheric thrum and uncommonly melodic, majestic rafter-rattling roar.

    Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed 2009

  • 'Neurosis' is much harder of course, because it's very tempting to characterise almost any belief that you think is irrational or inadequately evidenced as 'neurotic'.

    Archbishop answers stimulating questions at Westminster School 2008

  • 'Neurosis' is much harder of course, because it's very tempting to characterise almost any belief that you think is irrational or inadequately evidenced as 'neurotic'.

    Archbishop answers stimulating questions at Westminster School 2008

  • "Neurosis," she hea rd her sister's voice in her mind.

    A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906

  • "Manic-Depressive", and it came predominantly in two forms, as a "Neurosis" and as a

    McCook Daily Gazette Headlines 2009

  • Cult Of Luna are at post metal's forefront along with contemporary such as Neurosis, Pelican and Isis.

    Enjoy Perth! 2008

  • Neurosis, he stated, is the “inevitable disease of Jews.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Neurosis, he stated, is the “inevitable disease of Jews.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • After I started the book, I discovered that Freud had even written an essay called "A Neurosis of Demonical Possession," in which he says that "the demonical possessions of yesteryear are just misdiagnosed cases of hysteria."

    Benyamin Cohen: An Interview With Novelist Joseph Skibell Benyamin Cohen 2010

  • After I started the book, I discovered that Freud had even written an essay called "A Neurosis of Demonical Possession," in which he says that "the demonical possessions of yesteryear are just misdiagnosed cases of hysteria."

    Benyamin Cohen: An Interview With Novelist Joseph Skibell Benyamin Cohen 2010

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