How To Use Hysteric In A Sentence

And a very certain opposition as well: some of it sensible, a good deal of it plain hysterical. Times, Sunday Times
He goes hysterical when I even wash his face in the bath, and if water gets in his hair it is even worse.
From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past.
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life

The small minority of motorcycle riders that are involved in criminal activity should be able to be dealt with under existing laws against organised (or other) crime, we don't need more laws specifically targeting motorbike riders, or hysterical public discussion, about "bikie" terror. Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate
No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.
Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
Driven by hysterical choirs and crashing percussion, the Latin liturgy is indeed rather scary.
Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
The thought of flabby old farts in az and florida doing anything besides sitting on their asses all day is hysterical: D Think Progress » Only One Republican Federal Lawmaker Has Spoken Out Against Arizona’s Draconian Immigration Law
And as he watched her in confusion, Shelley's chuckle turned into an uncontrollable, hysterical fit of laughter.
An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
Others became hysterical, possibly suffering from hypothermia, while thousands more suffered exposure and frostbite. Times, Sunday Times
We Tortured and We'd Do It Again for his latest hysterical rant in support of kidglove treatment for headlopping babyhunters. The Jawa Report
I spent an hour recently trying to explain limericks to a Chinese from Tientsin; which left him bewildered, me frustrated, and the staff of the bar we were in, in hysterics.
So I may be a cynical, hysterical, psychotic, twisted masochist.
during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered
Going into that conversation I tended to view all the big pushers of regime change as warmongers, hysterics or trouble-makers.
Lopez is completely inept when it comes to playing out the hysterics that this mellow-dramatic insipid thriller so often demands of her.
We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
You should have inserted a pause right there to give the audience time to collapse in hysterical laughter. Think Progress » Palin aide refuses to criticize Limbaugh by name when calling his ‘retard’ comments ‘crude and demeaning.’
They have chosen their footage wisely — and possily hysterically — as Rotaru, Miller and editors Harrison Engle and Drew Kilcoin culled 200 hours of material into a crammed 91 minutes. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
As a hysteric, Beloved mimics dominant ideas about madness as well as orthodox definitions of gender and race.
Behind all the hysterical and gaudy obloquy is the suspicion that each could have been everything he ever promised he would be - and, in the common imagination, still can be.
“The caller, in other words, you, is described as incoherent and hysterical.” Red Wolf
You watch as the waters begin to protrude, becoming a mass of hysterically delocalized pillars slithering upwards, outwards, onwards towards the shore. Faraday's Wave Garden
To be sure," says Sister Biscoe, a little hystericky, but very cheerful; "ain't that what I'm here for? Dialect Tales
As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing. James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
On balance, he felt that hysterical dissociation states - if such was indeed Joanna's case - were really about deception and self-deception. COMPULSION
Less historical than hysterical, "The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project" is a movie-within-a-movie shot in frequently abstract black-and-white — "arty-farty," as one character describes her cinematic preference — about a lonely office worker's effort to make a short film with the help of a more established director (the film's actual director, Srinivas Sunderrajan). Kids Take Over the School
It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
Do they say this in an hysterical high-pitched voice? Times, Sunday Times
At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation. The Serpent and the Rainbow
Again: why should I take these hysterics seriously?
I grasp my aching head and turn around to see them laughing hysterically as the volleyball bounces away.
Karon and Widener then described what they identified as a typical combat hysterical neurosis.
The bride hystericky in the carriage and at the station wept so that I was fair beside myself. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
His hysterical laughter made everybody stunned.
I suffered bouts of really hysterical depression.
But eventually it made it to Canada, where my teenaged friends and I would watch it in total hysterics after school.
The site also has a video clip of Big Daddy and Hit Girl hysterics from the upcoming movie too. Kick-Ass Big Daddy revealed | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Why the word “terrorist” leads so many people into a state of hysterical presumptuousness accompanied by demands to defy our constitution blatantly, is beyond me. Matthew Yglesias » Mitch McConnell vs the FBI
I knew this shouldn't have been funny, but right then I found it hysterical.
Mr. Coughlin laughed about it the next day, and Thursday, when Mr. Cofield sported a bright blue shirt that read, "Don 't Tase Me, Bro," Mr. Canty broke into hysterics. In Stuffing the Run,
Sadly for Burnside, such hysterics are less impressive when introduced by a diarist who lacks the wit to spell check her ‘murmour’ ed offerings.
Enjoy the crowned oneâ€ ™ s antics in hysterical tales as he gets mixed up with weird science experiments, football foul-ups, and his cousin, Souphead! Archie Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
A moment of silence while we all sit open mouthed and then we burst into hysterical laughter.
Orlando frowned, an expression which sent his recently acquired entourage of adoring fangirls into spasms of hysterical pity.
But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour.
We can perform contentedly on stage, and are well-received by the audiences, who normally go hysterical upon hearing the intro.
Ryan was just hysterically laughing, asking how it was a twenty-one year old could lose to a five year old child in naughts and crosses.
It was as if he was trying to pacify a hysterical mental patient.
`I will not have hysterics ," she adjured herself, heading for the phone. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Dreams pervade the play, giving it an illusionary quality and heightening the sense of dark hilarity that frequently has the audience hysterical with laughter.
A point later, with the crowd in hysterics and opponent Novak Djokovic still in shock, the world's top-ranked player closed out the victory, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 7-5, to move one win from his sixth straight U.S. Five-time champ Federer to face first-timer del Potro in Open final
But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
It feels like an all-news network should: instant, informed, urgent without being hysterical.
She played a sullen nutcase prone to hysterics and evil giggles.
But what if Interstate 57 looks decidedly Roman or Subcontinental — or imagine a hysterical combination of a Hindu cremation ritual, a New Orleans jazz funeral march, Jim Crace's quivering, and a High Baroque Requiem mass plus the nonstop visual, aromatic and aural assault from this thanatological mixture. Archive 2006-02-01
The hysterical over-the-top delusionary nature of these convictions of yours are only a couple of the many reasons your body of work here has led pretty much everybody to immediately dismiss your posts and to simply treat you as the ridiculous clown that you so obviously are. Think Progress » The ‘Kristol Ball’ predicts that ‘the bulk’ of health care reform will be repealed by 2013.
Humour for humour's sake is what we want, and in these anxious hours something to make us laugh quietly and unhysterically, if only by way of temporary relief. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914
Nevertheless to those weak habits with pale skins and large pupils of the eyes, whose degree of irritability is less than health requires, as in scrofulous, hysterical, and sonic consumptive constitutions, Note VII
Police and bodyguards had to protect him as the almost hysterical crowds struggled to approach him.
I had to rush to the loo to avoid an attack of hysterical giggles.
Like, my dad was wearing a navy jumper with red and green argyle, and he tried on a red cardigan with navy and green argyle and I started laughing hysterically and saying ‘It's an argyle twinset!’
If you do end up hiring a car, staying in motorway hotels is often cheaper than historic (and hysterically expensive) city locations Five Ways To Save Money On UK Travel | Lifehacker Australia
Or maybe they're all quietly doubled up in hysterics behind me.
) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics. MUSIC FOR BOYS
The big problem for anybody watching the opening ceremony must have been suppressing whoops of hysterical laughter.
Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
The second, though not quite matching the first's coruscating brilliance, was still peppered with hysterical moments and the usual quota of toe-curling tomfoolery.
I can think of several options other than lying and malingering to explain the onset of hysterical symptoms and recovered memories.
But then I read the whole thing through and I just sat there for ten minutes in hysterical laughter - he had pulled it off!
The irony here is rich, to say the least, considering all the Constellation advocates who called Beverly Hills "alarmist" and "hysterical" when the potential safety concerns of tunneling under a high school -- with both oil fields and its own fault -- were initially brought up. John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core!
She's just a young wisp of a girl, and very sensitive to boot: Scold her in the slightest, and she dissolves into hysterics.
Having invited her on board for a chat, he refused to let her go until the bus had driven a mile down the road, much to the amusement of his hysterical team-mates.
Touched by his affection and feeling overly emotional, I become hysterical.
The visitation staff initially looked askance at the brouhaha, but they ended up laughing hysterically at the bizarre display.
It was such a shock I had hysterics.
He said with a sly grin as Emerald busted out into hysteric laughter.
The whole episode was absolutely hysterical!
Could a nonhysterical, non-leftwing editor even exist, or is that concept outside the bounds of your fevered imagination? Savage but untrue
Please excuse the lack of in-depth analysis of this story, but it's hard to type when your entire body is convulsed with hysterical laughter.
Each day the bloggers get up at long past dawn to practice their calisthenic hysterics before ambling off to their lives of quiet desperation, which get louder with each passing day. Scraping the Bottom of the Tar Barrel: James Wolcott
She wasn't emotionally disabled or hysterical but in these day she used to cry almost all the time.
And every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics.
I am leant forwards over my knees, rocking in my chair, almost hysterical with frustration and despair. Times, Sunday Times
There's already been a boatload of bloviation expressed on the recent reversal of the ban on loaded firearms in our national parks, some of it sensible but most of it (predictably) bordering on hysterics. Locked & Loaded in Parkland
Recently, hysterical fans of the Taiwanese boys' band, F4, caused a great sensation in Shanghai.
As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic. 1 As the grief of a person in this state occasionally recurs and increases into a paroxysm, spasms affect the respiratory muscles, and he feels as if something, the so-called globus hystericus, was rising in his throat. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
The difficulty was that in impassioned moments the mustache was apt to get awry; and once or twice, while on his knees before Tina in tragical attitudes, this occurrence set her off into hysterical giggles, which spoiled the effect of the rehearsal. Oldtown Folks
As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours. 54 entries from April 2007
That set the players off and most were still in hysterics as they made their way down the tunnel. Times, Sunday Times
As the anchor was hanging up on her, Brenda was in hysterical tears and pleading for her life. Almost A Third Of Poll Think Harper Is A Liar « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Because hysteria has no organic causes, the hysteric imitates the lesions of other illnesses.
The first is that it soars beyond the hysterical tedium of its promotional literature. Times, Sunday Times
Hysteric - from the Greek, hysterikos - of or from the womb uterus: hystera; suffering caused by the womb. Archive 2008-05-04
I suspect the doctor thought I was just another hysterical female.
(I consign to parentheses the equally problematic issue of race, although few readers familiar with Austen will want to ignore the near-hysterical irruption of "the slave-trade" into one of Jane Fairfax's earlier conversations [271], as if in compulsive, belated echo of the formidable subtext haunting Mansfield Park.) Saying What One Thinks: Emma--_Emma_--at Box Hill
The sight of blood could set some people into hysterics.
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
My wife very hystericky and forever in a smock and declareth she would be dead and married life a delusion, the which opinion I take small issue with having my hands full of business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not to speak of H. Nevil which waileth continually over how he was caught short in the month of June. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
I'm prone to hysterics and don't think clearly.
This persecution of the already-overtaxed motorist is becoming almost as hysterical as the persecution of smokers and the hunting fraternity.
Kingsley plays Ford in a near-hysterical key throughout, his jealousy tinged with full-blown paranoia.
There was a shocked, almost hysterical reaction. Times, Sunday Times
That's right: The minds behind "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," "The Complete History of America (Abridged)" and other loopily condensed works have now concocted "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)," a movie-theme spoof that, one evening this week, sent a Kennedy Center audience into regular peals of near-hysterical laughter. Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center
And then, that same candidate will put out an ad making perfectly generic critiques of his or her opponent -- which the media will hysterically then upbraid. Remember, Candidates: The Media Won't Let You Keep Your "Civility Pledge"
When we see true ‘dictatorship,’ as opposed to yet another permutation of Parliamentary fiascos, we will see it in the eyes of the hysterical, not from their mouths.
Daily Kos does a fairly hysterical "annotated" version of the mea culpa. Archive 2009-08-01
But youre so wrong, it may seem totally dimwitted,desperate and a tad hysterical but in the nuclear industry its called 'expedited gravity enabled liquid coolant implementation'or EGELCI to the boffins . The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage.
A hand raised to slap would send her into hysterical giggles; she knew it would never be delivered.
Hamlet arrives, and reflects on suicide, action, and the fear of death before seeing Ophelia, whom he hysterically instructs to retreat to a nunnery: after he leaves, Ophelia laments that he has lost his reason.
Perhaps she might simply reread my essay — unhysterically. Wilson and the Academy
At home that afternoon she sat in a darkened room, trying unhysterically to sort out not only this messy affair but also the general relationships within her family. Space
She felt hysterical laughter building up inside herself. A Plague of Angels
The essential oil is regarded as emmenagogue and antihysteric. 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
Vocally they veer between manic and mannered, at times verging on hysterical operatics, while their rigid riffs resemble uncoordinated robots trying to play disco.
My character is really melodramatic, in that one minute she is throwing a tantrum and the next she is laughing hysterically, but I wasn't at all like that.
This goal is achieved in the film's narrative by transforming Billie Holiday into a hysteric.
Butterfly hugs him hysterically, then bids him a heart - rending farewell.
Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws.
The false leftist view of America as an evil dictatorship has gotten to such a hysterical level that two goofballs writing for the left-wing website CampusProgress.org were actually debating whether supporting the home team in soccer reinforces Ameri- can “hegemony.” OBAMA ZOMBIES
She seemed to find my situation absolutely hysterical.
Grade schoolers attending a sneak preview found this stuff hysterically funny.
It would simply be helpful if the neighbours could resign themselves to an approximately similar exercise, with fewer tantrums and hysterics.
The hysterics' observable disorders, such as catalepsy, as well as their visual experiences, including hallucination and delirium, were deemed manifest content and, as such, not to be taken at face value.
Pinchot's funny accent work is quite unexpectedly perfect for the Dupin stories, featuring as they do the semi-hysterical Prefect of the Paris police, "G____," who is wont to burst into peals of lunatic laughter whenever Dupin calls his sagacity into question. Boing Boing
When restrained from going up high slides or wading into ponds she becomes hysterical. Times, Sunday Times
These numbers have fuelled hysterical reactions, as if inflows could somehow be ended. Times, Sunday Times
But throughout, as the procession goes around and around, the aural system is assaulted by an unattractive mix of hysterical commentary and high pitched engine whine.
I was reminded of this hysterical clip snipped from a short TV series broadcast on UK telly last year. CMM News
After the bit about important people in cars I had: ‘On occasion they might vaguely hear a hysterical yap from the left front wheel.’
She felt hysterical laughter building up inside herself. A Plague of Angels
At the time, Yang bemoaned, "A dignified, nonhysterical account of our peculiar sufferings untethered to the American upper middle class's Ivy League fixation and richly justified fear of national decline remains elusive. Silpa Kovvali: Tiger Brother: An Interview With Wesley Yang
It makes me laugh the laugh of the African sub-saharan feliform known for its range of vocalizations that sound like hysterical laughter. I'm not watching the Superbowl.
When frenzy and hysterics threaten, just keep telling yourself that smiling's a better facial aerobic than frowning.
Not one in fifty of them will remember what triggered the hysterics. DEATH IN FASHION
radio, afraid that she might accidently come upon that ranting, hysterical voice which had blighted their lives. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
It's a bit disturbing that I was laughing hysterically at a leader who's orchestrating the death of thousands, including our own people.
Your extreme alarmism is impractical and borderline hysterical. About: Blinded by Science
Then the hypothetical "Inmates can strike at prison wall" would be accurate and thoroughly nonhysterical [sic] -- just as the headlines were about the oil facility strike. Savage but untrue
Who do these hysterics think they are persuading?
By Christensen's era, religion gave way to science, and a new form of otherness evolved: the female hysteric.
These hysterical ravings, however, I think he takes seriously.
The barasingha deer is hysterical and unaccountable. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
Everyone in the studio burst into hysterical laughter .
He veered between calm acceptance and hysterical accusations.
He was a difficult man - high-strung and unpredictable, at times nearly hysterical.
He'd often have us all in absolute hysterics.
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039
There is often a hysterical reaction when things go wrong to the extent that they have done here. Times, Sunday Times
Kal's eyes widened as he came to a pause before bursting into a series of hysteric laughter.
I am leant forwards over my knees, rocking in my chair, almost hysterical with frustration and despair. Times, Sunday Times
He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy. Reflections on Burke
Others suffered from psychoneurotic symptoms alone - mutism, loss of speech, hysterical twitching, and uncontrollable jerkings of arms and legs.
Then the hypothetical "Inmates can strike at prison wall" would be accurate and thoroughly nonhysterical -- just as the headlines were about the oil facility strike. Savage but untrue
An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
After a second, I realized she was joking, partly in response to my complaints about the hysterical and occasionally overwrought response to this new disease.
On the contrary, patients' reports of magnetic sensations were thenceforward written off as being among the odd things that hysterical patients sometimes say.
But then I recalled our parking lot hysterics of this weekend and my angry words to him about how he can't be bothered to read my writing.
Food for thoughts, puns the hysterical Kate as they depart.
Seventy five percent of our time together she was hysterically jealous, the other twenty five percent she was whoring.
They had many acrimonious bouts on the subject which invariably ended in hysterics. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
He was a real wind up merchant with a wicked sense of humour - he had everyone in hysterics and he will be very sadly missed.
Furthermore, Freud placed the emphasis on the psychological mechanism of hysterical symptom formation.
The hysterical reaction to her thoughtful essay proved that we are anything but grown-up. Times, Sunday Times
I'm thrilled that Argentina has shown such compassion and common sense in overcoming the right-wing, largely hysterical and non-sensical Catholic onslaught against gay marriage, while at the same time stunned that the United States, who continually vaunts its supremacy on human rights and condemns other nations for abuses, allows people's equal protections to be simply voted away based on nothing but prejudice. K.J. Dwyer: Buenos Aires, I Do
Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions.
When she came out of the bath, she took assafoetida drops, and was fluttered all day; so that we could hardly keep her from going into hysterics: but her mistress says it will do her good; and poor Win curtsies, with the tears in her eyes. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
There was a cackle of hysterical laughter from the phone.
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Contrary to hysterical rebuttals by the likes of Inayat Bunglawala and his cabal of supporters within Labour she speaks with one defiantly single and definitely unsplit tongue. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The doctor slapped the hysterical child to make him calmer.
Whenever she is able to keep her hysterics in check, it sounds as if she's trying to present herself as innocently doe-eyed as possible.
In the meantime, generations of scientists had ‘proved’ that women were witches, demoniacs, or hysterics.
In the context of a live club appearance, a standup will say things that would be a sackable offence if repeated in the workplace, or lead to death threats if hysterically recounted on the front page of a national paper accompanied by a portrait snap. Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
The first is that it soars beyond the hysterical tedium of its promotional literature. Times, Sunday Times
You know what to do for a child in a fit, for an alderman in an apoplexy, for a girl that has fainted, for a woman in hysterics, for a leg that is broken, for an arm that is out of joint, for fevers of every color, for the sailor's rheumatism, and the tailor's cachexy. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Spontaneous outbursts, to his mind, are for fools, hysterics and chat show guests.
From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Sure their lawyers-are-coming-after-us paranoia gets a little tiresome after awhile, but that's just a symptom of our country's political climate, in which the only way to make sure you're heard above the din is to act slightly hysterical. Blog Reviews
We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
Acting like a hysterical ninny wasn't going to make my day get any better.
) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Only when she burst into hysterical tears did he spring up and ask for her hand in marriage. The Sun
Even more hysterically funny and revolting, he says that the dictionary's editors tabulate "citational evidence" about anti-Semitism published in "carefully written prose-like books and magazines". A Warning To Those Who Dare Criticize Israel In The US
Peter's wink sent Jes right back into convulsions and minor hysterics.
Then again, I still find the running “blucher!” gag in Young Frankenstein hysterical. Hullabaloo
The wandering phallus of the male hysteric is not pathological because it moves about. Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations
A convinced anticlerical, he regarded all saints and visionaries as hysterics.
Were actually having pia coladas in Hawaii, which seems pretty hysterical, but as I sip through my straw, I find it cool and frothy, a coconutty heaven. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
What experimental procedure could provoke some people to profuse sweating and trembling, leaving 10% extremely upset, while others broke into unexplained hysterical laughter?

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