How To Use Hysteria In A Sentence

  • Objective:To observe the effects of to integrate acusector concussion with suggestible dialogue treat 530 patient with hysteria spasm.
  • Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
  • Second-place winner Nada Bader, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Crestwood Middle School, met her downfall with the word "conniption" - a fit of rage, hysteria or alarm. Times Leader News
  • Any new medical condition is at first scoffed at as "malingering," "hypochondria" or "hysteria," and only slowly becomes established. Electrosensitives reach out to OEN
  • Unnecessary anxiety has been caused by media hysteria and misinformation.
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  • Hopkins' hysteria was a sample of America's campus-based indignation industry, which churns out operatic reactions to imagined slights.
  • A similar ‘group hysteria,’ he adds, gripped hundreds of birders in California, who for days mistakenly took a skylark for a Smith's longspur.
  • Am I remorseful that it got out of hand and escalated into mass hysteria?
  • The celebrity hysteria about the show was in full swing. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
  • Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed Jack Vance "To Live Forever" & other extravaganzas
  • Perhaps it is too hot, or Madrilenos are just no good at building up mass hysteria.
  • Paulo Szot was wonderful as the status-conscious, noseless Kovalyov, ricocheting from hysteria to self-pity (we see through his lyrical laments) to self-importance; his baritone was multihued and penetrating, except during the noisiest orchestra moments. The Sweet Smell of Success
  • This ancient Middle Eastern source furnished the basis for classical Greek medical and philosophical theories of hysteria.
  • This is the story behind the Victorian madwoman in the attic, of all the forgotten women whose rewritten histories replace isolation with hysteria, and non-conformity with insanity.
  • In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
  • Messiah, his seductive arts and successes, the mass hysteria around him, his fall and the breaking up of illusions in destitution and new illusion, or in penance and purity. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
  • The judges can barely contain their hysteria. Times, Sunday Times
  • If aliens were found, would it not be kept quiet due to the potential mass hysteria?
  • States of ‘altered consciousness’, hypnosis, autohypnosis, euphoria, and psychosomatic conditions such as hysteria, may be accompanied by insensitivity to pain.
  • unpreventable hysteria
  • Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
  • The false claims advanced by the Bush administration that Saddam was building up a serious WMD program and that his regime had given training in “poisons and deadly gases” to al-Qaeda associates in Iraq were the apogee of this hysteria, as they helped to embroil the United States in the disastrous Iraq War. The Longest War
  • But the element of bad faith in the argument is far worse than the feeble-minded hysteria of its logic.
  • If so, who decided that the singer would squeal in high-pitched hysteria while the other three pounded their instruments as though possessed? Times, Sunday Times
  • The wolves gather again the following day, a few suspecting the hero is purblind to all but his own ambitions, caught up as he is in the hysteria of his last days.
  • In his quest to treat all neurotics, and not just those who suffer from hysteria, Freud abandons hypnotism and develops the technique of free association.
  • That, and tax cuts, were the unprofessional / unrightful preoccupation of the media - because they didn't just report, but fed the hysteria. Undefined
  • Since the General's death, the population has been gripped by mass hysteria .
  • When racial and sexual stereotypes are mixed in, personal fear becomes public hysteria.
  • We love the frisson and the excitement of those feelings, the near hysteria and the intensity. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was mass hysteria when the band came on stage.
  • Historically, Vanilla was used to treat impotency, ulcers, hysteria and rashes.
  • Those mass psychoses in which entire garrisons went mad all at once, those mass hysterias in which vast groups of " civilians went reasonlessly out of control, - could not have been brought about by an ordinary mind. Children of the Lens
  • Numerous small theatres throughout Salem re-enact episodes from the witch trial hysteria while waxwork displays in creepy dungeons capture the key moments.
  • Perhaps she falls (never in a way to injure herself) to the floor and apparently loses consciousness, closes her eyes, rolls her head from side to side, moans, clenches her fists, lifts her body from the floor so that it rests on head and heels (opisthotonic hysteria), shrieks now and then and altogether presents a terrifying spectacle. The Foundations of Personality
  • In this extraordinary passage, Wright anatomizes the lynch mentality: collective hysteria as a matter of symbolic racial representation.
  • Cricket chiefs are also hopeful that Ashes hysteria will also help dispel any lingering disenchantment among fans or sponsors caused by the match-fixing saga that scarred Pakistan's tour of England last summer. English cricket hopes for a sponsorship bonanza
  • One of the first home electric devices was the personal "massager", which allowed housewives to resolve their "hysteria". Balkinization
  • Great to have your company today, where we're looking at contemporary cases of hysteria.
  • The one thing certain is that Kaspar had the sensitive or 'mediumistic' temperament, which usually -- though not always -- is accompanied by hysteria, while hysteria means cunning and fraud, whether conscious or not so conscious. Historical Mysteries
  • I have a tendency to put these things in the class of mass hysteria.
  • Hysteria can currently be defined as a form of psychoneurosis characterized by disturbances of the sensory and motor functions, with a high degree of susceptibility to autosuggestion or hypnosis.
  • In a series of essays and monographs written between 1885 and 1900, Freud radically reconceptualized hysteria.
  • he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria
  • Since the General's death, the population has been gripped by mass hysteria .
  • The world cannot tolerate these old claims, most times based on sheer hysteria and emotion.
  • In this way they give rise to the symptoms which we meet in hysteria and psychasthenia -- fears, phobias, obsessions, and tics, like stammering. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • No one could help getting carried away by the hysteria.
  • Because hysteria has no organic causes, the hysteric imitates the lesions of other illnesses.
  • His music was constantly described in terms of personal hysteria or the social disintegration of pre-1914 Europe.
  • Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.
  • I would call it moralist hysteria, I would call it religious myopia," she said. Reuters: Press Release
  • Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • Spikes of Force Index identify zones of mass hysteria, where trends become exhausted.
  • As for the current case, I agree that the present level of media hysteria can neither assist the police investigation nor subserve justice. The Media Coverage of Robert Murat is Shameful
  • All three of these diagnoses were once subsumed under the now obsolete name hysteria. Trauma and Recovery
  • Feminist critic Elaine Showalter has gone so far as to claim hysteria as a root or first step of feminism--a kind of protolanguage of revolt communicating through the body messages that can't be verbalized, especially in a period of time when women or that matter men had no framework for signifying their often largely psycho-sexual repressions. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
  • I've never before or since seen instant mass hysteria to match it.
  • Did you never wonder what these sudden waves of mass hysteria were about?
  • This was a place of horror and hysteria, supposedly haunted by ghosts and witches.
  • Could she master the "hysteria" of a mind too aware, too conscious of the conditions of its existence? Berthe Morisot
  • The re-enactment prompted a national hysteria of jokes and ridicule calling Mr. Khomeini the "cardboard Imam. Letter Writers Break Iranian Taboo
  • The paranoia reading was low for someone with the prisoner's apparent intelligence, nor had he scored high in psychopathic deviation, schizophrenia, hypomania, depression, hysteria, masculinity/femininity, psychasthenia, or social introversion. The Girls He Adored
  • In short, M. Charcot places hypnotism in the same category of nervous affections in which hysteria and finally hallucination (medically considered) are to be classed, that is to say, as a nervous weakness, not to say a disease. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
  • The media is trying to develop mass hysteria to support the war drive.
  • The word hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus. The Pawprints of History
  • The 12-year-old eponymous hero of the film, Daniel Radcliffe, looked shell-shocked by the hysteria which greeted his arrival at the premiere.
  • Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
  • If you believe Melbourne breakfast radio, the whole city has gone nutso this morning in some sort of mass hysteria, melting down switchboards, wanting to know what that big noise/rumble was that woke them at 3 this morning.
  • To the medical mind these ecstasies signify nothing but suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria. The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • As the hysteria died down, a deep gloom fell over America which was to last over two months.
  • The case was one of hysteria, the patient presenting at the time of my examination signs of abductor laryngeal paralysis (laryngological examination disclosed a right-sided abductor palsy) and right-sided partial hemiplegia. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • What it was, instead, was a farrago of paranoia and pretence, hysteria and lies.
  • They had a high incidence of hysteria and caused deaths of many of our old men by freezing under fire. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • That there was a hunger for this was clear from the hysteria greeting Tom Ford's first own-label womenswear show in September. The Guardian World News
  • His voice teetered on the edge of hysteria.
  • All three of these diagnoses were once subsumed under the now obsolete name hysteria. Trauma and Recovery
  • Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves.
  • So why the continuing hysteria about aliens? Times, Sunday Times
  • They struggle to control their feelings, are imbued with a streak of hysteria and can fly into a rage if things go wrong. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately my failure to treat the breakage with the gravity it merited tipped him into a state of near hysteria. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • The mass hysteria by the zealots does not bode well for India or Hinduism.
  • People's fears, often fanned by anti-bat hysteria in the media about the danger of contracting bat-carried diseases, have made bats political pawns.
  • It would appear that ‘womb envy’ and male hysteria are no longer latent thematics to be teased out by the psychoanalytically-oriented feminist critic; such envy is the manifest content of the film.
  • She felt a bubble of hysteria rising in her throat and took a deep breath.
  • Take the hysteria surrounding giant African snails. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such was her hysteria she began pummelling him with her fists. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • These are perfectly rational questions, not mere hysteria or antifeminism. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Yet the hysteria is still surrounding us. The Sun
  • This is almost universally regarded as a shameful blot on America's history, a cautionary tale of racism, paranoia, and wartime hysteria.
  • Many people thought they knew the end of the world was nigh, but were lying to prevent mass hysteria.
  • There was a frantic tone to the stories, an underlying hysteria I felt as a child but could only name as an adult.
  • Political relics of the 70s are fomenting a ‘stop the tour’ wave of hysteria, glorying in the echoes of their salad days.
  • Singh also charged Pakistan with "whipping up war hysteria," and criticized what he called their reluctance to crack down on militants operating on their territory. News for WSLS 10
  • The hysteria familiar to us from our high-school history books and Arthur Miller's Crucible gets its due, in the usual sinister hues.
  • What distinguishes hysteria from other kinds of neurosis or psychosomatic illness is the mutability of its symptoms, the manner in which trauma can be converted into a potentially infinite array of corporeal manifestations.
  • The abnormal, spasmodic swallowing of air, especially as a symptom of hysteria.
  • Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89
  • The idea that it was just depression or hysteria, a psychoneurosis or ‘all in the mind,’ he found not only ludicrous and cruel, but also dangerous, and his records contain several examples of suicide.
  • The bulging eyes and fierce, gummy smile: it was an expression bordering on hysteria, and the intervening years had done nothing to dampen it. The Best American Erotica 2006
  • All three of these diagnoses were once subsumed under the now obsolete name hysteria. Trauma and Recovery
  • Callers try to top each other in the virtuousness of their hysteria, and the violence of their solutions.
  • This invoked a further outbreak of mass hysteria amongst the fleet.
  • They also have created mass hysteria over the alleged insolvency of Social Security (expected to remain solvent until 2037) and Medicare (2029). Martin Tolchin: How New Jacobins Persuade Us to Vote Against Our Interests
  • I knew even then, I think, that my histrionics teetered on hysteria, but my self-conscious melodrama only angered me more.
  • But the sight of me thrashing around on my funboard, for some reason, excited him to hysteria. Kook
  • Here, Ben details the hysteria and fear gripping Hong Kong, a small taste of which spread to Southampton's Chinese community this week.
  • Total confusion reigns supreme, and an atmosphere close to mass hysteria ensues.
  • [zuch]: To me, the hysteria about the unconstitutionality is far out of proportion to its impact, and the quality of the opposition seems just a tad irrational ... and unexplainable except as Republican opposition to anything Decmocratic orObama. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association
  • I knew even then, I think, that my histrionics teetered on hysteria, but my self-conscious melodrama only angered me more.
  • For example, the perception that Asian men are sneaky and traitorous is founded entirely on wartime hysteria and jingoism following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • But hysteria lives on today in a different guise - conversion disorder.
  • Various people are drunk or act strangely or approach mini entertaining hysterias - like whirlpools in cups of tea they pass quickly.
  • One woman, close to hysteria, grabbed my arm.
  • Racing lately has been surrounded by hysteria, which is one of the most pejorative words in the language, as it was foisted upon us in antiquity by men who had determined that only women became emotionally overwrought.
  • Shock often manifests itself as conversion hysteria, where the mind causes the body to be incapacitated.
  • Movies have long been a magnet for scrutiny, hysteria or moral panics, though obviously television now draws much of that dubious attention.
  • Screeching from the NY Times and hysteria of tidal wave proportions from the formerly known Reality Based Community to inundate America. VA AG Cuccinelli to invoke Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act over Climategate? | RedState
  • The whole history of the US, indeed, is punctuated with scares, crazes and occasional mass hysteria.
  • Not, James explains, in the way advocated by the "medical materialists" – those for whom mysticism signifies nothing but "suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria". William James, part 6: Mystical states
  • By now, she was screaming[sentence dictionary], completely overcome with hysteria.
  • Several researchers have noted that episodes of mass hysteria are probably far more common than we currently think.
  • An infusion, as tea, is resolutive and expectorant, and is useful in flatulent colic, spasmodic cough, humoral asthma, and in hysteria. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • One woman, close to hysteria(sentence dictionary), grabbed my arm.
  • Whenever two people from the same side of politics differ there's mass hysteria.
  • Amid the laughter, the melodrama and hysteria, this is a play with a terrible, almost frightening undertow of sadness and helplessness.
  • Thus in the course of the nineteenth century ovariectomies were performed as therapy for pathologies such as ‘hysteria’.
  • Talking to Daily Times, Hussain, said hysteria was a medical condition thought to be common to women caused by disturbances of the uterus (from the Greek word hystera). Undefined
  • Congressman opens hearing on Islamic radicalization, says 'rage and hysteria' unwarranted sns-ap-us-muslims-terror-hearings WASHINGTON AP - Under heightened security, Rep. Peter King opened hearings Thursday into Islamic radicalization in America, dismissing what he called the "rage and hysteria" surrounding the hearings. Chicagotribune.com - News
  • The term "hysteria" comes from the Greek word for "womb" and refers to a disease that was once diagnosed almost exclusively in women. Jezebel
  • The latest example of this hysteria is a badly-lopsided Reuters article that contains the following gem, unattributed to any source.
  • Can you imagine the hysteria which would surround that fight. The Sun
  • In Anglo - American psychiatry, much of what was characterized as conversion hysteria in psychodynamic psychiatry is now classified under the more scientific-sounding rubric of somatization disorder.
  • A trial run at the pressure-sensitive, spinning scrub-brush sent my partner into gales of laughter and hysteria.
  • This is a remarkable showing when we consider the strain of the strange, long, dark winter campaign, and of these fourteen cases six were mental deficiency that were not detected by the experts at time of enlistment and induction, three were hysteria, two neurasthenia, and three psychasthenia. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
  • But the hardy little device was now safe from his propensity to overwork it and from my hysteria.
  • Most notably, Malkin disregards the primary role in events of West Coast military figures, political leaders, commercial groups and opinion makers, since the evidence of anti-Japanese racism and hysteria in their actions and motivations is so overwhelming as to be irrefutable. IsThatLegal?
  • Witness the hysteria at the birth of the printing press. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a scene of almost unimaginable hysteria. Times, Sunday Times
  • All three of these diagnoses were once subsumed under the now obsolete name hysteria. Trauma and Recovery
  • After all, the dilution of monoracial purity only comes through producing multiracial children, and this is the result that causes the hysteria in antimiscegenation laws. A Word Lesson On "Miscegenation"
  • It was originally intended to cure hysteria. The Sun
  • The Russian policy of recent weeks resembles the condition of latent hysteria - moving between extremes and gyrating between panic attacks and undefined hopes.
  • After a brief, initial fascination, the town quickly turns against the boy, and hysteria rules the day.
  • It all adds to the growing sense of cultishness and hysteria surrounding the show. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the polar opposite of the hysteria surrounding Evans. Times, Sunday Times
  • The outpouring of emotions and media coverage are insulting to those who endure this condition without such hysteria. Times, Sunday Times
  • In all the media hysteria, there was one journalist whose comments were clear-sighted and dispassionate.
  • Who expects to find an aging Spanish nanny at the center of a tale of religious hysteria, paranoia, murder and revenge?
  • She is never given to hysteria, or explosive passion, as much as she is to exploring implosive energy that builds, as if by stealth, into something more meaningful and inevitable.
  • The mass hysteria that it created, however, particularly at the funeral, worried me immensely.
  • Tautou also does enough to suggest that beneath her happiness lies hysteria and an emotional volatility.
  • My own hysteria was bitted by upbringing and respect.
  • If the mainstream media was as engaged in investigatory journalism like they were in the 60's and 70's there would not be so much overblown hysteria about non issues and so much ridiculous trash reporting, ala like that of the National Enquirer. cynthia Priest apologizes for mocking Clinton while at Obama church
  • A decoction, infusion or tincture of the seeds is useful in nervous debility, hysteria and other nervous disorders.
  • Her feelings of fear, anger, and revulsion brought the return of her hysteria and nausea crept into her throat.
  • The film shows the harrowing reality behind the newspaper hysteria over ‘bogus’ refugees.
  • Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
  • They seem to stand for all I think is wrong with writing about literature, arbitrary disputes laced with hysteria, the creation of pointless ghettos, self-righteous sneering thinly disguised as intellectual superiority, tantrums about issues so unimportant in the global scale of things that I start to wonder myself about the point of what we do. The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
  • He says criminologists note the ease with which public hysteria can turn into vigilantism.
  • The entire tale is one of fabrication and hysteria caused by the disaster's deep emotional impact. Titanic - Destination disaster
  • The result of all the chanting and drumming and hysteria was fear. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • Leigh's interpretation has a high-strung quality, a wildness that hints in some scenes of being on the edge of hysteria.
  • There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail.
  • Witness the hysteria at the birth of the printing press. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't doubt it is a problem but they just caused hysteria. The Sun
  • What had triggered such a superfluity of jubilation, verging on worldwide hysteria? LORD PRESTIMION
  • They jammed telephone switchboards or left town, many just huddled on their front lawns in a state of fear, resignation or hysteria.
  • After I started the book, I discovered that Freud had even written an essay called "A Neurosis of Demonical Possession," in which he says that "the demonical possessions of yesteryear are just misdiagnosed cases of hysteria. Benyamin Cohen: An Interview With Novelist Joseph Skibell
  • [11] Ellis spoils, however, the sense of his invented term by comprising under the phenomena of autoerotism the whole of hysteria and masturbation in its full extent. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
  • Any realistic assessment is you lost in some degree of mass hysteria. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a fit of hysteria, Silvia blamed me for causing her father's death.
  • Even though hysteria as a disease may be described as one and indivisible, there are yet to be found, among the ordinary and fairly healthy population, vague and diffused hysteroid symptoms which are dissipated in Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
  • The practice of witchcraft was often blamed for poor weather and there was a witch hunt hysteria at the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did you never wonder what these sudden waves of mass hysteria were about?
  • The practice of witchcraft was often blamed for poor weather and there was a witch hunt hysteria at the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. Craig K. Comstock: Guided Psychedelic Sessions
  • It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • They struggle to control their feelings, are imbued with a streak of hysteria and can fly into a rage if things go wrong. Times, Sunday Times
  • His theories took hold in American psychiatry, and the term hysteria came to mean “emotionally charged situations … symbolic of underlying conflicts.” The Chemistry of Calm
  • The Senate rejected a comparable measure in 1998, but in the current hysteria it could be stampeded into upholding the House's ignorant new law.
  • Just when hysteria was about to engulf the nation, guess what? Times, Sunday Times
  • The simplest orders and directions received from his troop's commander, he either forgot to perform or executed in such a bunglesome manner as to drive Lieutenant Perkins 'irritable nature to the verge of hysteria. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
  • One parent whose daughter was sent home said he suspected that mass hysteria may have been the cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” whose healing oath is revered to this day, used the term hysteria to describe overwhelming fear, sometimes accompanied by unexplained physical symptoms or loss of self-control. The Chemistry of Calm
  • Then I watched him do it about a week later, and I was distorted and convulsed with hysteria.
  • Is hysteria fundamentally a psychological disorder with physical manifestations; an organic disease with mental and emotional epiphenomena; or some inseparable intermixture of the two?
  • Unnecessary anxiety has been caused by media hysteria and misinformation.
  • After visiting Siberia's industrial cities, built by prisoners from the Soviet gulags, Meek says he tried to capture the unique hysteria it produces, in his complex and quirky characters.
  • The setting is in the near enough future to have your typical American mentality and yet far enough to see that water has been excluded from showring and that cars don't need steering and that aliens of all kinds have nestled on Earth, but without all the hysteria about it. "Awaken Me Darkly" by Gena Showalter
  • And the snarl of my anger was blended with the snarls of beasts more ancient than the mountains, and the vocal madness of my child hysteria, with all the red of its wrath, was chorded with the insensate, stupid cries of beasts pre-Adamic and pregeologic in time. Chapter 1
  • Equally unexplained is the mass hysteria that has struck randomly down the years. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is specific for asthma and oppressed breathing, hiccup, whooping cough, spasmodic croup, tetanus, hydrophobia, hysteria paroxysms and hysterical convulsions.
  • Her "dipsomania" took an unaggressive form, as she was by nature gentle and sweet; she simply used to shut herself in and drink until she would cry herself into a timid, suppressed hysteria. The Second Generation
  • Yet some reviewers panned what they called her touristy themes, garish colors, and the “hysteria” of the giant crosses. Portrait of An Artist
  • In this state they are frenetic, unrelaxed and prone to bad judgment, caught up in the hysteria of the moment.
  • The medicated result is a toxic level of mass hysteria for the patient, or in this case, the news subscriber.
  • So Mr. Burnett is not being delusional in shrugging off the hysteria surrounding his start. With A.J. Signing, Yankees Can't Avoid the Consequences
  • Women fought over his silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves, ripping them to shreds in hysteria. Times, Sunday Times

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