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  • We're also paranoiacally primed to detect threats to our status, to our children—any domain in which the stakes are high.

    Three Relationship Articles from Psychology Today, With Commentary William Harryman 2007

  • Some paranoiacally went after rivals, while others were so unhinged they probably didn't know they were killing anyone.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • ■ Extrapolation of psychological zero-sum competition model demands that arms races in every aspect of existence be seen as "inevitabilities" which must be paranoiacally pursued.

    1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2010

  • ■ Extrapolation of psychological zero-sum competition model demands that arms races in every aspect of existence be seen as "inevitabilities" which must be paranoiacally pursued.

    1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2010

  • Oddly, the ashram was about the only variety of spiritual-related site we were unable to visit on one particularly wide-ranging day -- seems you have to have reservations for the expensive and paranoiacally secured facility.

    Spinner 2009

  • Stuckist-style counterattack to a paranoiacally defined hegemony dedicated to trampling the traditions of skill and observation and the figurative under a greasy heel.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • For a certain subset of the paranoiacally hygienic, every Netflix disc that is slid through their mail slot must seem like a petri dish of communicable diseases.

    Geek.com 2009

  • To the literal-minded reader, it's a repugnant, 3,000-word free-associative monologue of hate; to the reader tuned in to the unreliable narrator's contradictions (and, in essence, unconscious confessions), it expertly illuminates the socio-economic roots of racism to which everyone is capable of succumbing (in this case, a narrator who feels paranoiacally threatened by a perceived loss in social status and the shift in power between the white and black races, underscored by the burgeoning civil-rights movement).

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RAY ROBERTSON 2011

  • Of course, there’s also the weird shame factor of remaining paranoiacally convinced that the second you start washing it out, someone is going to come along and demand to know what on earth you are cleaning…

    A Public Service Announcement to Men 2004

  • Slothrop goes hunching paranoiacally along the street, here's "God Bless America," a-and "This Is the Army, Mister Jones," and they are his country's versions of the Horst Wessel Song, although it is Gustav back at the Jacobistrasse who raves (nobody gonna pull an Anton Webern on him) to a blinking American lieutenant-colonel, "A parabola!

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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