Sentences with phrase «as hysterical»

In I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), her first production, Rist starred as a hysterical brunette singing an altered line from a Beatles song.

Phyllis interrogates the representation of women in Nollywood as hysterical and overly dramatic.

I strive to remain calm, quickly sifting through my options — the last thing I want is to come across as the hysterical American woman.

It's one of the most grueling instances in the film thanks to a perversely manipulative moment of seduction courtesy of Martin Sheen (in his screen debut), pulling a stunt that his cohort Tony Musante would be treated to only a year later as a hysterical gay man being questioned by Frank Sinatra in 1968's The Detective.

If the notion strikes you as hysterical, you may be more of a nerd than you suspect.

The late Chris Farley, as hysterical as he ever was, is amusing in a cameo role, but, as a whole, the supporting players are amateurish and seemingly free from any directorial guidance.

Robin Williams, «Mrs. Doubtfire» Last but never least, Williams is the crème de la crème of comedic actors: spirited but restrained when necessary, as heartfelt as hysterical, and practically gushing joy.

Other than this small inexplicable moment, the rest of the film plays out as a hysterical weekend bender of heavy drinking, drug consumption, and partying with hookers.

As hysterical as it is, like a true politician, The Campaign flip - flops on its message and sells out in the favor of farce.

(No one's feelings are presented as hysterical or unreasonable.)

Sigourney Weaver is the star here; she shows enormous strength in the character and keeps us hoping that she'll not be revealed as an hysterical paranoid.

Humor is a matter of taste and a funny question that strikes one person as hysterical might be a dud for someone else, so match questions to your date's demeanor.

Butter and its popularity declined swiftly and in lockstep with most other full - fat foods as the hysterical and misguided fat phobia grabbed the Western world by the throat.

Clearly, the kind of political economy required to win back the trust of voters across the country, not just the South, will involve Labour posing a threat to capital - however mild it might appear, the response is sure to be as hysterical as during the 80s and early 90s.

At first, they will begin to find certain sounds to be more interesting (such as a hysterical laughter or a loud burp) than others (such as the dull noise of water flowing from a tap).

Maybe we'll see the global stock market plunge of the last week as a hysterical overreaction to China's economic woes.

Things are not quite as hysterical as in France, where the government has just declared «a state of economic and social emergency,» but give them time.

It begins as a hysterical screed — with Lusk name - checking the Gestapo, Hitler, Mao and Stalin — and ends up a nuanced critique marshalling convincing evidence that many totems of the foodie world are propped up with shaky supports.

Not exact matches

Hilarity ensued — nay, exploded — as Candace, soon to be «Chewbacca Mom,» unleashed a delightfully hysterical torrent of laughter for two solid minutes.

There, the friend described Janie as «hysterical.»

The article did NOT say that there were no martyrs at all, just that there were not as many as you would like... And to even TRY an equate Christianity in America as the kind of persecutions early Christians experienced makes you look quite childish and hysterical.

Unfortunately, as Charles Mackay has so well illustrated, such scientific evidence is typically ignored in the hysterical contagion of popular delusions.

Just as unexpectedly, the woman accepts, adopts the child as her own, and proceeds to mother him with an almost hysterical fierceness.

Jesus allows himself to be handled in public by a notorious woman who, with her unbound hair and hysterical display, is rendering him as ritually impure as she is herself.

When he commented - in response to the usual question about why he was so unreasonably opposed to condoms as a means of fighting Aids - that in fact condomdistribution isn't helping, and may be worsening, the spread of HIV / AIDS in Africa, he provoked an avalanche of hostile comment, much of it almost hysterical in tone.

But as this father read this passage to his children, his four year old son broke out in hysterical laughter.

As I said in Lost and Found, in the midst of a hysterical panic about 94 percent of evangelical young adults leaving church, «Crises sell books but usually don't fix problems.»

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So a correction was found as the «70s dawned, the angry voices of the alienated minorities diminished, the bloody Vietnam war ended, the cities grew less hysterical, and the nation discovered that its institutions were strong enough to withstand the enormous challenge of corruption in the highest office of this land, finally expelling that corruption in a violent period of national purging.

«If anything is a threat to the national security of the United States of America, it is this screaming, unrefined oaf with as much class as a searing release of flatulence followed by hysterical giggling at a state banquet.

Nonetheless, given the almost hysterical reaction of some theologians, particularly a fair number among the members of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), to such Vatican directives as Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and Ad Tuendam Fidem (1998), we can conclude that many professional theologians, and theological faculties, apparently have yet to absorb Newman's point that magisterial authority is necessary for the proper teaching and pursuit of theology.

All the Reformers were of one mind in wanting to abandon the implications of the sometimes hysterical piety of the faithful towards the «Blessed Sacrament», marvelling at a kind of almost horrific miracle in the «transubstantiation» which occurred, as it were automatically, when the correct words and gestures proceeded from a properly ordained priest.

OMG this story of your dad dressed up as the Easter Bunny «creepy human - sized bunny» is hysterical!

He was hysterical but as soon as we just walked into the room he would lie down and go to sleep.

My daughter does nt do CIO at all at night, if I ignore her, she goes into hysterical fits for 2 hours straight.My son eventually gives up after one hour of crying.Of course there is always the risk of one waking up the other as they share rooms and are very disrupted if kept in separate rooms.

Hi — my son has never slept through and I am sometimes almost hysterical with fatigue, as I work and am still breastfeeding him (he is 9 months old).

If you do pick them up when they are hysterical, put them back in the crib once they have returned to a calm state and continue soothing as needed.

When i emerged from the hysterical, hormone induced fog and realised that retail outlets do not all immediately shut down following the birth of your child, i came to see that it is possible and even recommendable to buy things as and when you need them.

Mom and dad would be hysterical to see the house or their baby all dirtied up, but messy play is considered as an essential aspect in childhood.

I'm glad we have both kinds because it added a lot of variety to those moments when our baby was hysterical from sore gums and the different styles served as a distraction for her.

He will sleep so peacefully in my arms but as soon as i try to put him in his cot he becomes hysterical again.

But then again, why did I want to risk being pegged yet again as just one of those «hysterical Mommy bloggers?»

Depending on your toddler's personality, she may try endless stall tactics, like asking for a drink of water, another story, different pajamas or an extra blanket, or burst into hysterical tears as soon as you turn out the light.

And listening to those, as well as paying attention to your baby's body language, you will really learn your baby is trying to communicate with you before it kind of goes to that hysterical cry.

It's as if nobody scrutinized a thing and now the people retroactively scrutinizing are «hysterical,» «not educated,» and «undermining breast feeding.»

If she becomes hysterical you can pick her up, but put her back as soon as she calms down.

They are now much more likely to rebel on an ongoing basis, as their hatred of the Lib Dems becomes increasingly hysterical.

Jackson hit back on Twitter: «With latest hysterical claims re #Brexit Cameron is starting to resemble Col Nicholson with the Tory Party as the Bridge on the River Kwai.»

He became known as «America's Mayor» after he lead an hysterical city and calmed the nervous nation in the immediate aftermath of the horrific event.

Your deeply confused muddle about various aspects of the Constitution indictes you're undeducated as well as stupid and hysterical.