Sentences with phrase «as sociopathic»

Actress Margot Robbie, most recently seen as the sociopathic Harley Quinn in Batman - adjacent blockbuster «Suicide Squad,» has signed on as ambassador for Nissan's electric - car division, which produces the best - selling Leaf EV.

Gyllenhaal was brilliantly original in his last role as a sociopathic cameraman in Nightcrawler, which makes his portrayal here particularly disappointing.

Ken Kwapis, who directed the first few episodes of «The Office» tried to make him relatable as a young fiancee in the slapstick - y «License to Wed,» as paired with an underused Mandy Moore and Robin Williams as a sociopathic priest.

The true standout is Jacki Weaver as the sociopathic matriarch of the crime family Cody, whose performance is rewarded by an incredible character; the result is a stunningly awful and twisted woman who won't soon be forgotten.

Gyllenhaal turns in a career - best performance here as a sociopathic loner who finds his calling in the murky world of freelance crime scene camera work.

Chief among the film's distinctions are the beautiful gloom of Conrad Hall's monochromatic cinematography... There are the fearless, wonderfully contrasting performances by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the sociopathic killers.

Pike's career has gone from strength to strength following her astounding turn as the sociopathic wife in David Fincher's Gone Girl opposite Ben Affleck.

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

Sadly, Hume's argument is undermined by what I call the Internet Psychopath Theory of Political Philosophy: give a group of otherwise sane individuals access to a Wi - Fi connection and anonymity and half of them are revelling in their new identities as sociopathic perverts or online bullies before you can say, «Come on now, old chap.

Not exact matches

The people who do not experience healthy emotions tend to be diagnosed as mentally ill, even sociopathic.

Since atheism per se takes no stand on the killing of innocent people, when an sociopathic atheist is responsible for the deaths of people, be it one person or a million, it does not represent any kind of inconsistency with his status as an atheist.

I would also note though that there have been sociopathic tendencies present in some of the US emergent church's cyberbullying tactics and offline behaviors as well.

Just as an FYI — I tend to say «someone displays sociopathic tendencies» rather than calling them a sociopath outright because one can get sued for libel / slander for making a mental health diagnosis if one is not a trained professional.

The sociopathic postings of some atheists on these and other boards should give all of us pause as to whether atheists have a superior morality as we profess.

What I finally decided, was that it wasn't demon possession but rather she was a demon in being possessed by her own ego, by her drive to have and control everything... as I latter came to understand, a sociopathic personality totally self - focused and without any conscience.

Didja miss the part about sociopathic murdering paul / saul as the progenitor of the lies?

Well that really started in Texas politics when Rove told Bush if he wanted to succeed he had to strongly identify with the Christian faith as that was an important factor in the area — low and behold, Bush became a born - again Christian... even though he is a text - book example of a sociopathic personality, without a conscience, and that really becomes an impossibility (although sociopaths are quite capable of faking most anything).

She, as a Mormon Republican, will almost surely vote against the interests of Americans who do not share such sociopathic ideologies as she identifies with.

Basing your actions on what has been proved to not only be false, but psychopathic and sociopathic as well, is not deserving of respect, of tolerance, of acceptance, or of any preferential treatment.

I just wanted to rail against the casual homophobia, the senseless violence and the sociopathic cruelty that Ready to Rumble treats as good clean fun.

Soon − very soon, as Fargeat barrels through her narrative with speed and precision − Jen is being is tossed off a cliff by her lover and his two sociopathic friends, another disposable toy in their very large sandbox.

When Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle referred to himself in Taxi Driver as «God's lonely man,» he wasn't just indulging in sociopathic self - pity, he was defining a self - projected outsider archetype that would return time and again in Schrader's scripts.

Sam Rockwell's amazing performance as a redeemable sociopathic cop.

Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell deliver the best performances of their respective careers as an angry, grieving mother and a redeemable sociopathic cop.

The cheek - bones - tastic Miller first made an impression in 2008's «Afterschool,» and hammered home his talent as the infuriating, sociopathic title character in Lynne Ramsay «s «We Need To Talk About Kevin.»

The subplot involving Bishop's stepson Ryan (Gerard Kearns), who falls in with a sociopathic gangster, manages the difficult feat of being both lurid and boring; and the way Bishop finally extricates the boy from the mess is so raucously unbelievable that what no doubt was meant to be a crowd - pleasing finale comes across instead as crowd - annoying.

Yet despite Simon's clear sociopathic tendencies, the film can also be read as study of international relations, and the difficulties of progressive intervention into the problems suffered by those of other races, cultures and even genders.

Here's a Halloween pick for you: a macabre musical about a sociopathic barber (Johnny Depp) with flashing razors and a demented cook (Helena Bonham Carter) who hides the evidence of his murders into meat pies, directed by Tim Burton, the dark fantastist of American cinema, as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol.

As a villain in The Avengers, Loki seemed in over his head (a sociopathic brother trying to take down a team that included Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk and Captain America?

Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu - ray + DVD), a neat little sexually - charged 1960 psychological thriller starring Corey Allen and Warren Oates as drifters with a sociopathic edge, was considered lost until it was restored in 2016 and rereleased in theaters and on disc.

It starts as something different and strange, an experiment that seems to be working whereby Adam Sandler's sociopathic persona is put under the microscope and left to squirm.

Cartoon Network somehow extends its own story of one - dimensional, sociopathic hicks into nearly twenty episodes as «Squidbillies» — so named because they're hillbillies but also squids, get it?

Below, you can see Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) bumble through an interview with cool, calm, and kinda sociopathic Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), that's filled with double entendres, long looks, and is about as close to having sex with your clothes on as possible.

Leading the way is Richard Armitage who will be joining the show as Francis Dolarhyde aka the sociopathic serial killer Red Dragon.

Backed by BBC Films, the picture stars Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly as middle - class parents toiling to understand the actions of their sociopathic teenaged son.

Technically that may make it a political novel, but let's face it: Lenny Murphy (reimagined here as Victor Kelly) was nothing but a criminal and a sociopathic thug.

Olivia Cooke plays the numb and sociopathic Amanda, newly rejecting all of the feelings she's previously performed for the sake of normality as she awaits trial for animal cruelty.

Bob's tenderness and respect confuses her as she faces the destiny she knows and accepts, which, when she becomes the victim of sociopathic ex-con Eric Deeds (intense and scary Matthias Schoenaerts, «Blood Ties») is to do what she must to survive.

He's played shallow before — notably in ABOUT A BOY — and scoundrel in BRIDGET JONES» DIARY, but this part is as arresting a portrait of sociopathic narcissism as I've seen in a comedy.

Not all viewers will accept this arguably sociopathic move, but it's a tidy meet - cute with an enjoyably farcical payoff as Nancy is forced to maintain her own false identity while feigning knowledge of his.

It's clear from the start that an abusive relationship is in the works, and the audience can't help but side with Wilma who, after her own curbside run - in with Claire's sociopathic beau, warns her friend to cut and run as fast as she possibly can.

Since the idea of a doll possessed by a serial killer is already fairly meta in the horror film canon, though, the whole approach comes across as masturbatory and just a wee bit sociopathic.

As gangs roam the arid desert landscape, fighting to the death for basic supplies, Max and fellow traveller Furiosa (Charlize Theron) pose an unlikely challenge to the blood - thirsty, sociopathic status quo.

Even detractors will praise the performance by Brady Corbet, an interesting actor indeed, one perhaps destined to play more sociopathic roles as he did in «Funny Games» — a cold, amoral person who nonetheless knows how to succeed with women, at least at first.

Smaller roles are less successful, with the naturally sweet Jennifer Garner miscast as the dominating, sex - crazed Susan with her eye on the family fortune, and the once great Nick Nolte (Lorenzo's Oil, The Thin Red Line) incredibly strange as Susan's sociopathic father.

Lassen — among the group Chalmers refers to as «sociopathic child - haters who are only teachers because they got tenure after two short years» — doesn't suffer Bart's foolishness, responding to the mischievous one's skeleton - in - the - closet prank by buzzing the top of his head with clippers.

The artist told IGN in 2008 that the proto - Tomb Raider began life as a «sociopathic blonde» before morphing into a muscle woman, a «flat topped hip hopster,» and a «Nazi - like militant in a baseball cap.»

After all, he draws like a sociopathic amateur, but operates as a balanced professional.

Relying on the goodwill of the leaders of industry to do the right thing regarding the environment and other matters has a poor history, as with some individuals the profit motive coincides with sociopathic tendencies, short term thinking and disregard for the well being of anyone outside their immediate inner circle of people.

We reward sociopaths for their sociopathic behaviour, that's hardly an incentive for them to change, but to make matters worse this kind of vain, arrogant, triumphalist behaviour is portrayed as something to be emulated and celebrated so it radiates out and into the rest of the society.