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  • The miniseries' crisis—Pat Loud's final discovery of proof of her husband's affairs and her move to end the marriage—builds almost imperceptibly amid all the noise, much of it semihysterical high jinks and chatter from the family's teenagers.

    The Loud Family Returns Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

  • The Fixer had then directed the semihysterical client to make himself a stiff drink and have a seat in the library.

    Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010

  • The Fixer had then directed the semihysterical client to make himself a stiff drink and have a seat in the library.

    Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010

  • The only member of the media who uncovers the dark secrets behind Roberts's rise to power is a semihysterical radical journalist named Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito).

    Rattling The Political Cage 2008

  • The Fixer had then directed the semihysterical client to make himself a stiff drink and have a seat in the library.

    Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007

  • Paul Lehrman wrote a semihysterical column about it Mix, acting like it was the musical Antichrist, after I told him about it.

    Roland SP-404 pocket sized, battery powered sampler 2005

  • A combination of lack of sleep, the shock about the will, and the repeating vision of Ricardo lying there with the brush sticking out of his back had made me semihysterical.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • A combination of lack of sleep, the shock about the will, and the repeating vision of Ricardo lying there with the brush sticking out of his back had made me semihysterical.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • A combination of lack of sleep, the shock about the will, and the repeating vision of Ricardo lying there with the brush sticking out of his back had made me semihysterical.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • A combination of lack of sleep, the shock about the will, and the repeating vision of Ricardo lying there with the brush sticking out of his back had made me semihysterical.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

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