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  • A steady stream of self-released mix tapes and videos - all adhering to the group's cartoonishly horrifying aesthetic, all a bit more deranged than the rest - increased the buzz and kept the conversation going. In concert: OFWGKTA at U Street Music Hall
  • The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
  • The selections this week include reflections on the Meath bus crash, Conor Lenihan as a kebab chef, a Star Wars horoscope, cyberstalking, and deranged art.
  • He also sends his friend Dr. Lefebre, an observant alienist, to check on the emotional well being of the distraught Lucy whose aunts insist she is deranged. A Mortal Curiosity-Ann Granger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Stem cell technology may produce cures for Alzheimer's disease; vascular growth factors may enable the body to produce its own cardiac bypasses; and the elimination of metabolic derangements may cure phenylketonuria and diabetes.
  • However, there is a distinct possibility that I am slightly deranged, so it could just be me that looks at life that way.
  • She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.
  • The boy was from a good family but he was deranged in some way: he wouldn't eat, he quarrelled with everyone, and he refused to go out to work.
  • It's just a phenomenal portrait of a deranged mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • They took her into hospital because she was mentally deranged.
  • I wouldnt trade it: I can intuit things you can't, enjoy things that would bore you crosseyed, exult in solitary pursuits that might derange another man, convince you of things you'd never believe, teach and explain things to you you think youd never understand. Aspergers
  • For all the freak imagery and wanton derangement, there was a certain plausibility to the pop stars of the sixties.
  • But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life …. man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Marsh, George Perkins
  • I probably looked like a deranged traveler obsessed with authority figures.
  • Absolute knowledge, by contrast, is not total but unconditional knowledge, the following of a particular direction or connection for its own sake, without regard for its potential to "derange" the whole (Schelling, First Outline 26). 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
  • Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
  • Willoughby, an attention-seeking hyperactive child, was, by his mid to late teens, violently deranged.
  • Plus bas, (en français!) nous vous donnerons quelques autres informations (oubliées) sur l'origine du conflit yougoslave et l'une des occasions manquées les plus dérangeantes d'empêcher le conflit: le projet de "cantonisation" signé par tous les protagonistes yougoslaves début 1992. Dedefensa
  • If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins.
  • So we spent the best part of 2 hours running around the house screaming like crazed banshees, dodging (in my case not very successfully) my deranged older brother.
  • We think they are mean and very slightly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
  • The women under the headscarves participate in something that both motivates and deranges their men. Nina Burleigh: Helens of the Jihad, Part Two
  • This is to stick in your mouth to stop you from screaming like a deranged fan.
  • In this connection I desire to make a statement which may come as a surprise to many, and that is this: I have but lately -- within the past few days, in fact -- been informed that among persons addicted to the vice of slang the term nut is occasionally applied to other persons whom they suspect of being mentally incapable or, in short, deranged. Fibble, D.D.
  • Jack's inconsistent argument derange us all.
  • He seemed to be on the verge of total derangement.
  • A delirious convention was taking place, a deranged banquet of the fathoms. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • Imagine going home to your family and friends and being told you were deranged!
  • From her gauze veiling the young woman spoke:-- "We are sorry to derange you. The guard made a mistake. Pardon!"
  • Well I'm glad that's the only reason you're staring at me like I'm mentally deranged.
  • This is a deranged concept leading an innocent man to do horrific tasks in grotesque detail, and it puts it all in first person. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some skinny on the actual play of Manhunt 2
  • The Nahuas also apparently believed that chocolate, especially in its green or unroasted form, could intoxicate its drinker: "when much drunk ... [it] makes one drunk, takes effect on one, makes one dizzy, confuses one, makes one sick, deranges one. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • His unhinged language suggested that persecution mania briefly deranged him.
  • I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism. Chapter 2
  • The most quiet and reserved people may become deranged loudmouths when they sit behind the keyboard, staying up until dawn and conducting angry debates on discussion boards with total strangers.
  • People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
  • I cursed some more, managed to staunch the flow, hopped around like a deranged Morris dancer until I could reach a plaster, patched myself up and went back to bed.
  • My family refused to stand anywhere near me, causing the few other tourists to believe I was just a solo deranged wildlife pesterer. NewWest.Net All Headlines
  • Certainly, I was struck by the combination of her screeching voice and deranged facial expression, her general state of undress being more disturbing than arousing.
  • Or have deranged boosters and desperate civic organizations hellbent on reviving the local economy threatened to break journalists' legs if they leave some jerkwater dump off the list of the 10 Best Places to Spend Your Golden Years? Ten Best Places to Read About Silly Lists
  • The play is tidily constructed around the absurd situation, in which Margot's deranged student, Molly (played with winning gawkiness by Anna Maxwell Martin), blames Margot for the suicide of her mother, who jumped under a train, Anna Karenina style, holding a copy of Margot's feminist bible, "The Cerebral Vagina. Wyndham Lewis's Unusual Angle on Art
  • But that's as nothing compared with personality derangement. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Imagine going home to your family and friends and being told you were deranged!
  • Disorder arises through an object acting on one power which acts on another power and deranges it, not through an accident acting upon its own subject. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
  • Every derangement of the page-space deftly mimes the current derangement of the house-space in the narrative.
  • He said that he didn't match his image of a deranged maniac - he was very clean-cut.
  • There are no derange liberals posting here, they are very astute observers of a very deranged woman that the right wing wackadoodles seem to have put up on a pedestal. In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
  • So I think you are simply an irrational bigot, who hates, hates, hates, without any particular distinctions or variation all those who, in your deranged mind, dare to “oppose” your ideologies by not pliantly following the self-serving, hypocrtical, insane creeds of the members of your “in” group of your social circle. Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation
  • Deranged, self serving, sexually driven and yet likeable Wayne Ogden is our unscrupulous procurer and criminal ready to triumph with his blackmail schemes and the like. Carole Mallory: Review: The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
  • Hence, while they wouldn't blink an eye at half-inching a Nana Mouskouri vocal sample, or appearing as deranged doctors for The Everlasting Blink album, their musical map has always directed them down the road less well travelled.
  • As when an individual soldier lost his balance, many flailing and falling soldiers deranged the enemy formation causing a serious decrease in the enemy's own firepower.
  • You again confuse not wishing to provoke a nuclear conflict with a deranged dictatorship as approval for same. Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
  • The thick black hands flamed with an eerie blue sheen in the low light of the bridge, and dark green eyes glowed with a deranged luminescence from deep-set pits under the gunner's brow.
  • In other patients, the genes preparing neurofilament proteins that support the nerve fibers are deranged.
  • Enfin si quand meme sinon j'l'aurais pas choisi mais je suis bien plus Punky dérangé que Punky poete, je suis tres reveur mais ce n'est pas l'image que j'veux donner a mon blog sinon je joueari pas autant les cretin dessus. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • The Weekly Standard and Martin Peretz of The New Republic of "psychopathic derangement" over what he characterizes as their insensitivity toward civilian deaths. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Let's say that the person you are competing against in the California GOP Senate primary releases a political advertisement that is expensive and deranged, with fake sheep crawling around with lite-brite eyes in a field, and a terrible, malformed metaphor that actually insults the fiscal conservatives whom everyone wants to win over. Luckily For Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' Ad, Her Competitors' Responses Have Been Terrible
  • For a man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Studies in Pessimism
  • Police officials said that the youth appeared to be mentally deranged or spiritually overridden.
  • In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
  • Her mind is not deranged, it has just regressed into that of one without advanced mental capacities.
  • This split is a kind of derangement which must reflect some significant emotional deficits in his childhood. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have to deal with violent deranged crack heads, not peaceful potheads?
  • Enfin, qu'il foute le bordel quand je dors ne me derange pas, au bout d'un moment je me leve et pis tant pis mais ce qui m'enerve c qu'a peine debout POUF je vois MONSIEUR JASPER se coucher comme un gros lardon de tout son long ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • Privately, she wondered if they were watching her to see if she would have a breakdown or if she was mentally deranged or something, but she said nothing to that effect.
  • Sometimes a person can go so far out that you have difficulty knowing whether their views are wrong-headed only or actually deranged.
  • A deranged angry woman disrupting a meeting is "plucky" and "stands up for herself". If "every campaign is... a narrative," what's Hillary Clinton's narrative?
  • He then took me into his laboratory, and explained to me the uses of his various machines; instructing me as to what I ought to procure, and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism. Chapter 3
  • Enfin, qu'il foute le bordel quand je dors ne me derange pas, au bout d'un moment je me leve et pis tant pis mais ce qui m'enerve c qu'a peine debout POUF je vois MONSIEUR JASPER se coucher comme un gros lardon de tout son long ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • I am sure that if you signed up to a mailing list for any other non-political interest group you would soon find it dominated by the rantings of deranged nutters and/or other obsessives.
  • That is very likely to have occurred in the case of some of the writers of the New Testament; that there is such a derangement is a fact. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
  • The situations Abe deals in do not raise epistemological or existential questions; they are deranged treatments of metaphysics.
  • However I don't see how your arguments can be enhanced by the use of words such as derangement to describe the opinions who disagree with you can be at all persuasive. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • They start by telling you the man was crazy or deranged and conclude by saying he was a liar.
  • At other times he felt morally sure that she shared that derangement of the bivalvular organ technically defined as "a muscular viscus which is the primary instrument of the blood's motion," whose worst pains are said to be worth more than the greatest pleasures. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
  • He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
  • Giving a whole new meaning to the term fanatic, this deranged devotee and No 1 fan of a romance-novel writer (James Caan), holds him against his will, forces a rewrite of the protagonist's fate and then sledgehammers his legs so he can't escape from her. TODAYonline
  • There was something demented and deranged about him, a little dark, a little disturbing, that actually scared her.
  • MRI is an ideal method to diagnose internal derangement of TMJ.
  • As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tennis is the game of the gentle people, the game so prim, so historical… so deranged.
  • Jordan looked at his wife, as if she was deranged.
  • If there was some genuine streak of derangement in her, it would only empower her more. COLDHEART CANYON
  • ‘People who lived on the streets due to the abuse of drugs, were not mentally deranged but possessed by demons,’ he said.
  • Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
  • Men over 60 tend to react as if you are slightly deranged to consider such a radical thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ajd'hui ca ne me derangeait pas d'etre habillé comme ca, j'm'en fiche. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • Lest I be accused of suffering from "derangement," I'm just wondering.... this is unusual for a present-day administration, so far into its term, right? Swine flu in New York City.
  • For instance, during the commencement of suckling, the milk is thick and creamy, similar to the biestings of a cow, which, if given to a babe of a few months old, would cause derangement of the stomach and bowels. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
  • And I never dared to ask my parents or teacher for fear of being termed mentally deranged.
  • The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
  • For, demented as he is, he is sublimely unaware that he is deranged.
  • In another recent issue, Atul Gawande writes that solitary is one of the most harmful methods of imprisonment and often results in derangement. Writer's Block: Dream On
  • _were_ such a project contemplated by Ministers, they would (forgetting their characteristic caution and reserve) agitate the public mind on so critical a question, and derange vast transactions and arrangements in the corn trade by its premature divulgement; and, above all, constitute the _Globe_ newspaper their confidential organ upon the occasion, should alone have satisfied the most credulous of its unwarrantable and preposterous character. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • Meanwhile, police based on preliminary investigation ruled out the possibility of him being mentally deranged.
  • Joe - black skullcap, five red spikes sprouting like a deranged cockscomb from ear to ear - had spent the night at Sam's house.
  • Roman outline with Venetian color; but love is fatal to his work, love not merely transfixes his heart, but sends his arrow through the brain, deranges the course of his life, and sets the victim describing the strangest zigzags. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface. Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis?
  • There is no proof that they are suffering from any mental derangement.
  • A deranged old lady with totally messed up hair walked around shouting at everybody else.
  • She also has a deranged stalker and is being used by a white supremacy group to furthersome members’bizarre conspiracy theories. Color commentary? : Bev Vincent
  • These are not the deranged ramblings of an alcoholic lolling at a bus-stop.
  • His deranged dare devilishness has earned him a wealth of fans and now, the opportunity to kick Paul Hogan in his Hollywood daks.
  • It was a horrible thing, a terrible thing, which could have deranged anybody in my opinion.
  • When we consider, as Lord Bacon observes, speaking of common diseases, that "all wise physicians in the prescription, of their regimen to their patients, do ever consider accidentia animi, as of great force to further or hinder remedies or recoveries;" it is difficult to account for the general neglect of moral considerations in the treatment of deranged mind. A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
  • When we talked to that deranged hobo in the park who looked kind of like Dr. Phil, you said you'd do anything to save our friendship.
  • This derangement in chylification increased his gout, his stomach became paralytic, and he died at the age of fifty-eight. A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
  • The structural derangements continue the cycle of abnormal weight bearing, excessive pressure and ulceration.
  • People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
  • The Consortium is attempting to label you as a deranged rogue who hijacked an armed ship.
  • Her skin was pale and seemed as thin as parchment after years of confinement in the windowless basement prison of the deranged handyman Priklopil. Times, Sunday Times
  • The actor playing the crazed counselor is so downright deranged in his performance you feel dirty watching him.
  • The Sunday Washington Post's Book World section carries an incredibly sane review of a hilariously deranged book on obesity.
  • Your aid in underscoring my sterling character is appreciated - so please do - with all honesty - SAVE ME FROM THIS DERANGED MAN!!! September 2006
  • The death cult strikes again, unstoppable in its deranged religious mania.
  • The deranged mind responsible leaves clues, both mystical and musical. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apparently, it was “irrational” or “deranged” to attribute motives to them, clearly inferable from their actions, that they had not admitted. Matthew Yglesias » A Substantive Post About the Issues
  • In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his dropsical face, looming from the billboards in Libya's cities, has grown more mournful and deranged as the political structures he conjured up have degenerated. Libya: Gaddafi's destructive path | Editorial
  • No wonder I am deranged and will probably have to spend a big portion of my adult earnings in therapy.
  • In this regard, it does not take a deranged imagination to see a potential train wreck developing in muni finance; faltering finances, mushrooming underfunded pension liabilities, and huge borrowing needs for as far as the eye can see.
  • Of course we must protect our writers and cartoonists from deranged fundamentalists, but we are not faultless ourselves.
  • Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
  • They all sink into the lowest class of religions mendicants, or retainers; or live among their friends as drones upon the land; while the manufacturing, trading, and commercial industry that provided them with the comforts, conveniences, and elegancies of life while they were in a higher grade of service is in its turn thrown out of employment; and the whole frame of society becomes, for a time, deranged by the local diminution in the demand _for the services of men and the produce of their industry_. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • Karl rove is a deranged twisted freak of a pathological liar who comes from a very twisted pathological family background. Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover
  • On the one hand, she paints a convincing portrait of Gribble as a deeply disturbed and increasingly deranged individual.
  • Hepatic histopathological examination showed proliferation of bile duct and fibrous connective tissue, obvious increase of hepatic cell oncosis and liver cell cord derangement in BDL group.
  • A deranged cat poisoner is suspected of spreading terror among pet lovers in Bridgwater, Somerset, in the west of England.
  • Our class seemed determined to surpass all of its predecessors in annoyances to the Faculty, the derangement and often destruction of college property and the "devilling" of Fresh. Sea-Gift. A Novel.
  • It's just a phenomenal portrait of a deranged mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are all written by the same potentially deranged person.
  • The group kicked proceedings off, squeezing their way into hormonally deranged teen hearts, with a crisp and punchy pop-punk-pounce.
  • In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
  • For some reason, that had me laughing in a deranged fashion for about ten minutes straight.
  • I was so deranged that I actually considered getting therapy for myself.
  • From the CEOs to the bolt-turners on the assembly line, from powertrain engineers to your humble reviewer—he said, adjusting his poodle skirt—we're all slightly but measurably tetch'd, meshuggeneh, deranged. The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It
  • If granted by the United States alone it will demonetize gold and derange all the business transactions of our people. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
  • I keep trying to imagine how I'll bring it up to the doctor without a deranged look in my eye.
  • While the state of the mother's mind does not materially influence the child; nevertheless, the state of the mother's body, the weary over-worked muscles and nerves of hot, tired women, bending over cook stoves, laundry tubs, or scrubbing floors, does materially derange the mother's health and digestion, which in turn, reflexly interferes with the growth and physical development of her child. The Mother and Her Child
  • She is mentally deranged.
  • You are seriously deranged if you think I'm going to walk thirty miles!
  • The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements. Plain Facts for Old and Young
  • The bel canto opera repertoire is most closely associated with Bellini's deranged heroines and Donizetti's game gamines.
  • Even today it's edgy cinema, but to write it off as the product of a deranged mind, or to suggest that it endorses the violence it depicts, is simple-minded at best.
  • Accordingly Oram encases the vast garden-jungle set inside a circular drum, implying that Williams's characters are themselves deranged solitaries.
  • Interestingly, even the mentally deranged humans are rational if not sensible.
  • In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first example given for "derange" in the OED that fits the meaning "to disorder the mind of, unsettle the reason of" is from 1825 "The trouble which our youth was thought to bear With such indifference hath deranged his head. Slumgullion #36 -- The deranged killer edition
  • It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man, almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure.
  • Symptoms of atrial fibrillation are generally due to hemodynamic derangements that are the result of loss of atrial contraction and increased ventricular response.
  • Paralysis of the posterior half of the body is known as paraplegia and results from derangement of the spinal cord. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In addition, antibiotic treatment deranges protective flora and antibiotic resistant microbial strains emerge.
  • Bridge = the card game (also called "Bridge" in French = jouer au bridge = to play bridge); une mauvaise perdante = a sore loser; une poignée (f) = a fistful; Tu dois déplacer une de ces baguettes sans déranger les autres = you must move one of these sticks without upsetting the others; un tas (m) = heap, pile; la balle (f) = ball; sans déranger le tas = without upsetting the heap Mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day
  • Even today it's edgy cinema, but to write it off as the product of a deranged mind, or to suggest that it endorses the violence it depicts, is simple-minded at best.
  • It is almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers. OpEdNews - Quicklink: 4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors
  • To be more specific, this is a small, character driven dissection, a brief journey into the mind of a deranged serial killer.
  • Maybe it's just some psychotic or bored and deranged person making a prank call.
  • Meanwhile, home on derange, most people would rather watch a Cialis commercial than listen to anything Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, or Keith Olbermann have to say. Jayne Lyn Stahl: Toxic Shock Doctrine?
  • All racial hatred is deranged. Times, Sunday Times
  • These include metabolic derangements such as hyponatraemia, as well as infections, central nervous system (CNS) disorders, drugs and toxins, systemic conditions such as hepatic encephalopathy, and psychiatric conditions. PLoS Medicine: New Articles
  • As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX. Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
  • Then again, this article was basically one long deranged advertisement for his shows.
  • The score is stridently overdramatic; the camerawork deranged. Times, Sunday Times
  • This world is thick with De Boursy-Williamses, throwing in bromides with a liberal hand, ungrudging of strychnine, happily at home with quinine and cathartics, ready at a case of simple rubeola; hideously, secretly, helplessly perplexed between the false diphtheria and the true; treating internal cancer and fibrous tumours as digestive derangements for happy, profitable years, until the specialist comes by, and dissipates with a brief examination and with half a dozen trenchant words the victim's faith in the quack. The Dop Doctor
  • Unforeseen accidents may derange our most profound schemes of policy.
  • My alarm sounded Monday morning, as usual, bringing me out of my slumber with a series of deranged, high-pitched beeps.
  • Also, it could be why he is deranged now, since he obviously isn't on the medication.
  • The father got custody of her because the mother is mentally deranged and the police think that this girl is in grave harm.
  • Un fanfaron croyant qu'il était au-dessous de lui de se déranger, se laissa accrocher, et son habit fut déchiré. French Conversation and Composition
  • Gabrielle Cummins is also utterly believable as the deranged beggar woman and her excellent performance is matched by great make up and costuming.
  • But no physicist, to my knowledge, has claimed that Heisenberg's principle "deranges" even physics, much less culture in general. Plastic Fiction
  • I like him posessive, deranged, amused, sobbing ... but dammit, I will NOT have him turned into a sweet little PC boy who is only fierce and dominant when he thinks his 'subbie' wants him to be. Jaxraven Diary Entry
  • She keeps grinning and gurning at me like she's deranged, like she's going to murder me or something.
  • If the so-called detent The lunacy of all this derangement has been a curious sideshow until this year when it became clear that it is all a part of an intended set-up. Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • It is well known that stress deranges the immune systems of human beings and non-human primates alike.
  • Today, the poet wants to compose a pantoum about the Mariel exodus, about his voyage from Cuba to Key West on a tugboat piloted by deranged exiles. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
  • For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged.
  • But then again I thin we are already there (hint-hint fundamental derangement is showing, defective contact with reality especially as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior) Clinton looks to Puerto Rico to boost her campaign
  • Our family affairs are rather deranged at present, for Nanny has kept her bed these three or four days, with a pain in her side and fever, and we are forced to have two charwomen, which is not very comfortable. she is considerably better now, but it must still be some time, I suppose, before she is able to do anything. Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
  • She could see that he really was grieved to 'derange' her, but that circumstances pressed. The Old Wives' Tale
  • His alarmed expression reflected how deranged I must have looked, with my crayoned eyes, shiny face, and hair styled by Cuisinart. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
  • To make him the foil and flip-side of his own deranged killer for the purposes of a cutesy rhetorical flourish is obscene. Will Saletan’s Moderation
  • There are no 'derange liberals' posting here, only very astute intelligent Americans. In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
  • We need to get away from the idea that the only people bound by demons are mentally deranged madmen.
  • And then, in an instant, it had all been taken away by a deranged fan with a knife. Times, Sunday Times
  • She'd become, she supposed, the local eccentric; the woman who'd come back from the wilds of Hollywood in a state of mental derangement. COLDHEART CANYON
  • As he becomes increasingly deranged, so the book gets more and more preposterous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amid the derangements of Dada and abstract expressionism she reverted to tradition.
  • The stability of the solar system would not be deranged in ages to come.
  • Thus, the combination of obesity with a genetically-based insulin derangement, may reveal latent diabetes.
  • It's the usual deranged and distempered prose, except there's something rather amusing this time: Richard throws in a few rants about ‘mini nukes’.
  • Sometimes a person can go so far out that you have difficulty knowing whether their views are wrong-headed only or actually deranged.
  • And they cater to the deranged grin fetishes of retired colonels from the home counties.
  • Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Search and destroy
  • In scoliosis, the anatomy is deranged not only at each vertebral level but also between the convex and concave sides of the curve in the spine.
  • The White House physician, who was not a psychiatrist, did describe Coolidge in his unpublished autobiography as being mentally unbalanced and mentally deranged.
  • Bad karma is stalking me like a deranged fan.
  • He has continued to press calmly forward despite almost deranged hatred radiating from enemies.

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