Sentences with phrase «of a nervous breakdown»

I was really hoping I wouldn't strike out again because I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

I gave up on the intense search when I was sixteen — it was doing my head in and I had a sort of nervous breakdown.

You know how I recently had a bit of a nervous breakdown.

In the old days, they used to talk of a nervous breakdown, today we tend to use the term burnout.

I just had like... frankly, something of a nervous breakdown.

It's a romantic comedy on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Constantly spotting predators lurking in the trees or sensing dramatic changes in temperature is essential for survival, but can leave birds on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

The «barrage» of unwanted kisses, crotch - grabbing, stalking, and daily calls, emails and sexts continued for a year, until Cater found herself on «the brink of a nervous breakdown,» according to court papers.

Maura appeared to great acclaim in Almodovar's earlier films, the two hitting a creative peak with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in 1988.

Musk came within inches of a nervous breakdown.

In his autobiography, Harry Emerson Fosdick tells with complete candor of the nervous breakdowns suffered by his mother, his father, and later himself.

I almost had a couple of nervous breakdowns.

With many of these women, it is difficult to speak of nervous breakdown as a specific event that interrupted the course of their normal daily activities.

Instead of a husband jealous of his beautiful wife, however, here the husband has to decide if his wife's vengeance is justified, or if her actions are the result of a nervous breakdown.

«We stand at the doorstep of a new millennium,» goes the first line of Senator Bulworth's clich - riddled stump speech, but, in actuality, this flawed character, played by Beatty himself, is on the doorstep of a nervous breakdown.

While most of the other men in his unit veer dangerously close to genre stereotype, Miller provides a richly - textured character, an everyman (it is Hanks, after all) on the verge of a nervous breakdown who perseveres anyway, simply because wars aren't won by men who don't follow orders, no matter how ill - conceived those orders might be.

While his writing career stretches across film («Year of the Dog,» Miguel Arteta's movies) and TV («Enlightened»), «Brad's Status» distills his filmmaking voice to a singular focus — a 40 - something introvert on the verge of a nervous breakdown for no good reason.

Mother doesn't know best - she is teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown in Jason Reitman's beautifully crafted and bittersweet portrait of modern parenthood.

A woman in the midst of a nervous breakdown, as Jasmine transports herself back to her various mistakes, what comes to the fore is her tendency to look the other way whenever something unpleasant arises.

Big hitters, bridesmaids and women on the verge of a nervous breakdown make the cut in this penultimate segment.

Whether or not it's accurate to portray Travers as a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown because the movie version of her books might change a minor character and inflame her daddy issues (Personally, I doubt it), the conceit, like the central fight over ideas, works as drama.

In a tantrum of overzealous form, first - time director Matthew Dean Russell intercuts Luke's frustrated drive down a rural Texas road with images of his nervous breakdown shortly before, complete with deafening exclamation points of sound editing that make the sheathing and unsheathing of a golf club sound like a war is about to break out on the course.

«Maniac Cop 2» Official Premise: The Maniac Cop series» first sequel pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderous «Maniac Cop» of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder strippers, against a frenzied NYPD detective, Sean McKinney (Robert Davi), who is just one step ahead of a nervous breakdown.

April 3, 2018 • NPR's Susan Stamberg remembers flying back from India in 1968 to a city and country that was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.

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J. Ryan Stradal edits the fiction section of The Nervous Breakdown.

Kerry's claim actually threw the former House speaker into the Twitter equivalent of a nervous breakdown:

For his sergeant Thomas Metz (Rory Cochrane), this is a ride too far, and he's on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

«Scared, helpless and knowing that her job (only source of income) was on the line, Plaintiff Cater endured Defendant Hoyt's behavior despite being on the brink of a nervous breakdown,» the court papers state.

But here are a few typical signs of a nervous breakdown:

As an outsider, if the US were a person, it can appear to be as someone on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Thus, after several years of getting the three middle kids «nurtured by love,» in Dr. Suzuki's words, Mom was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

He seemed so manic that several reportersspeculated he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Marrouane Chamakh stepped up, which meant I was on the verge of nervous breakdown.

you have millions of people on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you don't want to have them on your conscience!

In January I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

«Scared, helpless and knowing that her job (only source of income) was on the line, Plaintiff Cater endured Defendant Hoyt's behavior despite being on the brink of a nervous breakdown,» the papers state.

Dwayne Hoover, the most respected businessman in Midland City, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown - yet his identity as the leader of the town's financial empire continues to flourish as he slowly descends from semi-sanity into madness.

Label originally launched in 1983; titles included Pedro Almodóvar's Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown.

Select highlights of her stage career include performances as Lucia in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's production of SWEENEY TODD (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Maria Callas in MASTER CLASS; Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES (Drama Desk Award; Tony Award nomination); Moll in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK; Nancy in OLIVER!

Most recently, she began rehearsals as the lead in the new musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

Thanks to iggy for the tip to news of Pedro Almodovar's involvement in an English - language adaptation of his Oscar - nominated 1988 feature «Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.»

She always looked like she was right on the edge of a nervous breakdown but somehow gonna sail through.

Sounds delightfully like something along the lines of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which was the last full - on comedy Almodóvar has done (almost fifteen years ago) and it was fantastic.

De Palma was discovered by Pedro Almodóvar and has appeared in several of his films, including «Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.»

Jumping time frames between pre-and-post trauma summers at the lake, Moss crafts a daring performance as a privileged and sheltered young woman who may have always been on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

It features Akin Tamiroff as a Mexican border town Little Caesar with a cheap toupee and a wise - guy patter, Dennis Weaver as a sex - obsessed motel clerk on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a guest appearance by Marlene Dietrich and cameos by Welles regulars Ray Collins and Joseph Cotten.