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  • The Comfort Eating Monster, and I realise I may be paranoically attributing powers to this creature which it does not actually possess, then attempted to sabotage me yet again - by the strategic positioning of Fucking Blonde Woman in the changing rooms.

    Archive 2009-03-01 juliette 2009

  • The Comfort Eating Monster, and I realise I may be paranoically attributing powers to this creature which it does not actually possess, then attempted to sabotage me yet again - by the strategic positioning of Fucking Blonde Woman in the changing rooms.

    Of Dove And Other Demons juliette 2009

  • Further, in the sociomorphic and anthropomorphic nature of the morphology that is paranoically and schizophrenically projected upon realty, the God class comes to articulate the discourses at play in our notions of society and humanity.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Further, in the sociomorphic and anthropomorphic nature of the morphology that is paranoically and schizophrenically projected upon realty, the God class comes to articulate the discourses at play in our notions of society and humanity.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

  • To begin with, my metaphorical antennae were constantly twitching paranoically, and straining to catch those nightmarishly familiar giggles behind me.

    A Sport Of Bother juliette 2009

  • Maybe 50% will turn bitterly and secretly against the woman they paranoically perceive to be emasculating them on purpose - ball-breaking bitch, look what she's done to me - and in consequence, become actively abusive.

    Archive 2009-04-01 juliette 2009

  • Maybe 50% will turn bitterly and secretly against the woman they paranoically perceive to be emasculating them on purpose - ball-breaking bitch, look what she's done to me - and in consequence, become actively abusive.

    Credit Crunch Britain : Cheques and Balances juliette 2009

  • What's really going on here, I paranoically suspect, is this: either the Singapore port company which was outbid on this deal has been doing some lobbying in Washington in order to get itself back in the game at a lower -- and, by the way, much more reasonable -- price or some US private equity group is aiming to get the US ports carved out and handed to them.

    Good News on UAE Port Deal Rogers 2006

  • The rest of my paper will argue for a sort of permeability between Shelley and the reviewers: they respond paranoically to him while at the same time ironically anticipating his challenge to their assumptions, and he publically undercuts their paranoid stance while privately embracing the Quarterly's own demonizing rhetoric.

    Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_ 1997

  • Joanna shivered and paranoically checked the straw around her skirts, hating the thought that one of the old lady's pet roaches might be crawling in her several layers of petticoat.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

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