Alert, neurotic or high-strung, magnetic, and imaginative are some of the descriptive adjectives applicable.

As Hilda looked at Sarah Gailey's bowed head, but little greyed, beneath the ray of the lamp, and at her shrivelled, neurotic, plaintive face in shadow, and at her knotty hands loosely clasped, she contrasted her companion and the scene with the youthfulness and the spaciousness and the sturdy gay vigour of existence in the household of the Orgreaves.

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* Mr. STACY AUMONIER takes for his theme the development of a clever neurotic, Arthur Gaffyn, who stands, in relation to normal life and normal feelings, Just Outside (METHUEN)a common modern type, perhaps a commoner type in all ages than the obvious records show.

Eliot said that if Colin didn't look out he'd be a regular neurotic.

He is extremely neurotic and has developed into a hypochondriac, the whole condition probably brought about by the shock and sorrow resultant on the death of his wife, leading to years of sad broodings and to overmuch of his own company and thoughts.

Stuhk became a sort of vicarious neurotic, eternally searching for symptoms in his protégé; Gideon's tongue, Gideon's liver, Gideon's heart were matters to him of an unfailing and anxious interest.

It has shown that the meager Vita is a conglomeration of a few chance facts set into a mass of later conjecture derived from a literal-minded interpretation of the Eclogues, to which there gathered during the credulous and neurotic decades of the second and third centuries an accretion of irresponsible gossip.

The poem abounds with conceits that a neurotic and sentimental pupil of Propertiusnot too well practiced in verse writingwould be likely to cull from his master.]

Rather than being downright manipulative, in hindsight I would describe the management style as slightly neurotic, characteristically protecting its own interests.

"The peasants are firing on us!" shouted a German soldier of neurotic temperament.

The neurotic personality of our time.

Emotional problems of living: avoiding the neurotic pattern, by O. Spurgeon English & Gerald H. J. Pearson.

Frank A. Pearson (A); 4Dec72; R541197. PEARSON, GERALD H. J. Emotional problems of living: avoiding the neurotic pattern.

PEARSON, MARY A. Emotional problems of living: avoiding the neurotic pattern.

Our neurotic age.

The neurotic personality of our time.

Frank A. Pearson (A); 4Dec72; R541197. PEARSON, GERALD H. J. Emotional problems of living: avoiding the neurotic pattern.

PEARSON, MARY A. Emotional problems of living: avoiding the neurotic pattern.

War stress and neurotic illness.

A ballad of sorrow, A grey sort of lay of To-day and a greyer To-morrow; A dismal, abysmal, chaotic, neurotic Creation Of one who was done after running a mile To the station.

He was naturally, I imagine, of an almost neurotic tendency; but he did not seem so much to combat this by occupation and determination as to have arrived at some mechanical way of dealing with it.

The opinion of Dr. Janet, as that of a savant familiar, at the Salpêtrière, with 'neurotic' visionaries, cannot but be interesting.

Being much engaged in the study of 'neurotic' and hysterical patients, Dr. Janet thinks that they are most apt to see crystal visions.

Not having any acquaintances in neurotic circles, I am unable to say whether such persons supply more cases of the faculty of crystal vision than ordinary people; while their word, one would think, is much less to be trusted than that of men and women in excellent health.