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- noun Plural form of
paranoia .
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Examples
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This writer knows how to handle the vastness of concept, how to tighten the plot with the velvet gloves of the reader's own fears and paranoias.
The Surreal Office 2009
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EU interior ministers – reacting to Europe's new paranoias – were to agree just hours later to give countries the right to do just what Denmark has done.
While the European left dithers, the right marches menacingly on | Will Hutton 2011
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Beyond offering specific conservative ideas that liberals had dismissed offhandedly so readers could judge for themselves whether condescension was warranted, Alexander kept moving the goal posts of conservatives who “counted” as conservative when readers sent in idea of truly whacky right wing notions and paranoias.
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Today Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck spent a whole hour on his Faux TV show comparing their mutual paranoias, mutual stupidities and mutual insanities.
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These sites, valuable rather than holy, help us to recover perspective, reorder our ambitions, quell our paranoias and remind us of the interest and obliging unexpectedness of life.
Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way? Alain de Botton 2011
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DoP, yeah, that is a different understanding (for me, anyway), although that attitude is of a piece with various other paranoias that are viral in the conservative population.
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree 2010
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Kartheiser is by far the best thing about a curious two-parter in which Nick Frost (of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame) plays the yobbish antihero John Self and which only haphazardly captures the baroque paranoias of Amis's prose.
Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out' 2010
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He writes: "If a writer understands that the fictions of crime in books or movies serve as a lightning rod to the inevitable fears and paranoias of the modern world, and has wit enough to render our most primal instinct entertaining, then he or she is a crime writer and the book is a crime novel."
January 2008 Maxine 2008
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He writes: "If a writer understands that the fictions of crime in books or movies serve as a lightning rod to the inevitable fears and paranoias of the modern world, and has wit enough to render our most primal instinct entertaining, then he or she is a crime writer and the book is a crime novel."
Whose crime fiction is it, anyway? Maxine 2008
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Politicians who have been in the same party together for decades come into government loaded with all the grudges, envies, paranoias and other enmities towards colleagues that have been accumulated over many years.
It's still all smiles at the top, but there's rumbling down below 2010
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