Sentences with phrase «hypochondriac who»

Jack (Adam Goldberg) is an insecure hypochondriac who feels incredibly uncomfortable in a country where everyone speaks a language other than English.

But Fred isn't necessarily inclined to move so quickly, since he's a nerdy hypochondriac who takes a pile of pills for an assortment of real and imagined medical disorders.

Do NOT let your doctor blow you off as being a hypochondriac who thinks she has the latest «fad» disease!

It was written by Robert Hooke, then a 30 - year - old hunchbacked, cantankerous, neurotic hypochondriac who was also a brilliant natural scientist, polymath and an original fellow of the society that published the book.

But from a hypochondriac who worries about having a heart attack on the freeway, and the inevitable cancer 24/7.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Like the hypochondriac who wanted «I told you so» inscribed on his tombstone, prophecy believers relished the sweet delight of knowing that someday their vision of the end,: and theirs alone, would be fulfilled.

They are hypochondriacs who self - medicate with new age spirituality.

Not exact matches

Samuel Richardson, the 18th - century writer who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern novel, complained so much about ill health that his doctor regarded him as a hypochondriac.

[pagebreak] Campaign backlash — and skeptics who aren't convinced The epidemic of RLS propaganda has had a negative effect on many people, however, who assume the condition is merely an excuse to sell drugs and an enabler for hypochondriacs.

I'm a hypochondriac but otherwise young, healthy, extremely physically active and have been following all of the advice you dispense long before I even knew who you were.

The Sun / South Node connection could look like the hypochondriac or the health nut who is into extreme sports.

Kvetch to the future Sci - fi and Woody Allen aren't words you'd normally expect in the same sentence, but the Brooklyn - born filmmaker's fifth feature saw Woody playing a vegetarian store owner who wakes up from a cryogenically frozen state in 2173, 200 years after dying during a routine operation (the ultimate hypochondriac's nightmare?).

(I had wondered whether Todd Haynes, who made the movie in 1995, was spoofing Carol White as a hypochondriac of sympathizing with her.

At its center is the «bastard» of the title, Asya, a nineteen - year - old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.

For those who don't know about the game yet, Chariot is a humorous, cooperative, physics - based platformer where a princess and her fiancé need to travel through a network of caves to find a resting place for their dead king, who takes the form of a hypochondriac ghost.

The partisanship mostly is political for reasons you can put down to economic or fundamentalist religious fears (most of the wing - nut followers in the «anti-AGW» camp, who are effectively «hypochondriacs» in a sense, and who firmly believe the human race is a disease on the planet.

I'm not someone who swears off seeing a doctor unless I'm on my deathbed, but I'm not a full - blown hypochondriac, either (okay, maybe sometimes).

• Resolved an extremely complex problem concerning a patient who was ready to sue the hospital for malpractice, by delving deep into his records and determining his hypochondriac status • Collected payments from patients • Verified insurance information • Entered financial information into computerized billing systems • Reconciled daily cash reports • Followed up with insurance companies to ensure that outstanding payments were made on time • Organized and maintained filing systems and ensured that they are kept confidential at all times