Sentences with phrase «by sociopathic»

Assaulted or killed for saying things those in power didn't want to hear (or just by sociopathic nutcases who were «offended» by what they were saying).

, few works of fiction have ever so vividly captured the mania of romantic infatuation without being fully consumed by its sociopathic tendencies — though the movie entertains the idea that being crazy might be the easiest way to deal with love and other annoyances of living.

Not exact matches

And I get why you would think those demonized by the US emergent boys might be «batshit» because the natural response of someone who has been subjected prolonged gaslighting by a skilled person with NPD and signs of sociopathic tendencies is to go ballistic and behave in manners that can make one scratch their head.

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.

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.

And it would be nice to see a real apology by this prime minister on behalf of this government to the family of Dr David Kelly, whose treatment by the narcissistic, sociopathic Alastair Campbell almost certainly contributed to his death.

Maybe they were in a relationship with a black woman that they saw themselves marrying... A man who would tell the story would probably say they were hurt by said woman and that's why they have these borderline sociopathic feelings toward black women (even though they will turn around and tell black women that they should not let being hurt by one or a few black men turn them away from dating black men in the future).

Second, he has a sociopathic value system in which harm is justified by profits.

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.

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.

Unaware that he is trespassing on Waggoman's land, he finds himself accosted by Alec's sociopathic son, Dave (Alex Nicol), who brutally beats Will and is ready to kill him.

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.

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.

Born To Kill — Claire Trevor plays a recent divorcee who becomes the object of obsession of a sociopathic killer played by Lawrence Tierney.

Harold Ramis took the family vacation movie off cruise - control in 1983, proffering a deliciously crass road trip film lead by an insolent (and borderline sociopathic) father figure in Chevy Chase and penned by none other than the mighty John Hughes.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R for rape, torture, brutal violence, profanity, frontal nudity and graphic sexuality) David Fincher directs the English - language version of the Swedish thriller based on the first installment of the Stieg Larsson trilogy about the effort of a disgraced journalist (Daniel Craig) to restore his name by solving a decades - old missing person case with the help of a sociopathic computer hacker (Rooney Mara).

(Olive, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Cy Enfield, is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear, set in the disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-war years and dosed with sociopathic anger.

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.

Colin Farrell, sporting a «dad bod» and soup - strainer moustache recalling Joaquin Phoenix in Her (decidedly a blueprint for contemporary renditions of dystopia), finds himself caught in this detention system after being left by his wife, and after an unfruitful dalliance with a sociopathic fellow inmate, escapes into the woods and joins a group of militantly celibate rebel fighters led by Léa Seydoux (who bans sexual relations within their ranks), but — oh the irony!

Not that we totally identify with our deadpan sociopathic narrator and main character, but that's precisely what happens to Lou Ford, the clean - cut young deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, (Casey Affleck, in another masterful performance to rank with his work in «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford»), a small - town psycho with a taste for compulsive, 1950s pulp sadism (really dirty, dangerous stuff — let's say S&M without the safe word).

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.

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.

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.

At least, he thinks it's an accident, but Jerry hasn't been taking his meds lately, which is why he's starting to hear voices — namely his loyal dog Bosco, who speaks in a Southern drawl, and his sociopathic cat Mr. Whiskers, who speaks in a Scottish brogue (both voiced by Reynolds)-- urging him to kill again.

A social misfit like The Comedian would therefore exhibit brutal sociopathic tendencies, mostly because his sense of morality is subverted by the amoral deeds he performs in the line of duty for his country.

Mel Gibson plays a sociopathic thief out for revenge after being double - crossed by his unfaithful wife and partner.

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.

My hope is that the mythical deities of professional publishing will identify for it infinite opportunities for both rational and irrational disposals, acquisitions and mergers, adding to it the steady flow of occasionally sociopathic senior managers and directors to impose upon it their mark, each after a short time to be removed and replaced by the next, of equally dubious character and effectiveness.