Sentences with phrase «of a sociopath in»

This book accurately predicts the decisions of a sociopath in a management role.

It's helpful to know who you're dealing with, and I'd love to see the church get its head out of the sand and stop denying the presence of sociopaths in our midst.

Not exact matches

«Home Capital has been attacked by sociopaths for no good reason,» says Ross Healy, chairman of Strategic Analysis, a capital markets research firm in Toronto.

The fact that some faked their loyalties well back in the day is why we have a minority of psychopaths and sociopaths which survive in our population today.

From books like * The Sociopath Next Door * by Martha Stout, I recalled that one of the key ways a manipulator hooks people is by sharing stories that make themselves look like they've been misunderstood, bullied, attacked, suffering... in short, The Victim.

This situation could easily be dismissed as the ravings of a few neurotic sociopaths, except for the chilling fact that our President and many of his advisors talk in much the same way.

Lots of people have served, both the heroic, brave, and intelligent to the sociopaths, murderers, and morons who should never have been given the opportunity to be in the military.

Dudes in KANSAS... home of the Westboro sociopaths who disrupt funeral of dead troops... something in the water????????

Sounds more like the creep in charge of the condo association is a sociopath... as is the BTK freak who thought he was a big shot with a badge aka dog patrol.

People born with birth defects so they can't choose, people who are psychotic or sociopaths and incapable of controlling their minds, people who are born in fundamentalist Muslim areas who never had the opportunity to choose or who would be murdered on the spot if they so «chose», people who God gave too much intelligence too to believe such an inane demand without more evidence, people who die in natural disasters before they were quite willing to convert etc. etc..

Would you be inclined to think that the individual in question was a homicidal, self - centered sociopath, or maybe even a divine vampire of sorts (since blood is so central to all of this)?

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

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).

Outside a religious context, you'd call someone who delights in, encourages, refuses to ameliorate, or willfully contributes to the suffering of others a sociopath, misanthrope, or sadist.

but instead of using this tragedy to shine the light back to a perfect god in an unperfect and scary world, this sociopath in a pulpit has spiritually raped so many believers, and also so many non believers who, when faced with christ, will possibly tell christ no because of this man's actions.

To be truly dominant in any sport over a long period of time you have to be a bit of a sociopath, and once the Pats get a lead they will continue to pile on the points like they want to make sure to stay ahead in the computer polls.

... there's something of a mischief with the way Konstantin writes others perhaps can't sense it but iv no doubt its there: There are sociopaths in our midst.

If you met a Falcons fan in a sports bar tomorrow and you couldn't rile them about the Super Bowl and they still expressed genuine excitement for the 2017 season, you would be terrified of what would be an obvious sociopath.

This story illustrates the importance of play more than most: In studies of sociopaths stuck in prison with life sentences, NONE of them had healthy play historieIn studies of sociopaths stuck in prison with life sentences, NONE of them had healthy play historiein prison with life sentences, NONE of them had healthy play histories.

I, of course, was more interested in the practical applications: How do I keep my kid from turning into a sociopath?

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Research in the field of infidelity reveals that there are three distinct personality types correlated with a higher likelihood of cheating: sociopaths, narcissists, and lonely - hearts.

When you think of a sociopath, you probably picture Christian Bale in American Psycho, or Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.

Then, in the flat, unaffected voice of a sociopath, he says, «Yeah, you do.

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- Signs of Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths The tough thing about minor jealousy in dating is that you actually want a tiny bit of it to know that they other person cares.

Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death.

A decade into its perpetual franchise, Marvel's purple - tinted sociopath with a corduroy chin, Thanos (Josh Brolin), appears to collect the Infinity Stones so he can end his misery, and ours, with a snap of his fingers and eliminate half the life in the universe.

But once it becomes obvious that the story's main character is a lying sociopath, no amount of her dialogue can offer any twists - the surrounding normal humans connected with the crime (s) offered those up in a rational, if not stupid, way.

Silly supporting characters are tossed in to give Carrey more characters to play off of, including an albino that may or may not be a sociopath and Charlie's three sons, who are written to be jive - talking geniuses.

In Corman's Bucket of Blood (1959), Miller originated the role of Walter Paisley, the nebbishy sociopath who «creates» avant - garde sculpture by murdering his subjects and dipping them in plasteIn Corman's Bucket of Blood (1959), Miller originated the role of Walter Paisley, the nebbishy sociopath who «creates» avant - garde sculpture by murdering his subjects and dipping them in plastein plaster.

As such any fleeting smile of Nick's is immortalized in a selfie and plastered on every TV screen in the country as proof that he is surely a sociopath.

The film meanders from time to time as Simon finds his way around the City of Lights and his own skin, but Corbet's performance is a darkly rich one in every scene, not far from Matt Damon's sociopath - turned - psychopath turn in «The Talented Mr. Ripley» but distinctively unnerving in crafting an eventually hollow façade out of this nice, young, very lost man.

There, she befriends a couple of her classmates: vehicularly violent Stella (Coolidge) and young sociopath Nikki (Amber Heard), who is never seen without a cigarette or lollipop in her mouth.

Spader brings more style than substance to his silver - tongued sociopath, though Aiello hits a pleasing note with his tough - guy front and his respectful and romantic treatment of Headley's brow - beaten assistant who, in turn, charmingly blossoms under his attention.

Given the illustrious history of characters like these, the fact that these young women are sociopaths isn't in and of itself a problem; it's that Finley has almost nothing to say about how they became that way, and there's nothing very interesting or new about depicting a world where there are no consequences for that kind of behavior.

The man is now at chameleon status, disappearing into the role of a blonde sociopath in Good Time.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

Where Magnolia is a loud three hours about being good to your children and Boogie Nights is an unapologetic Goodfellas rip - off and exercise in empty style, Punch - Drunk Love is a tight ninety minutes of a stalker's violent love affair with an emotionally arrested sociopath.

Does the environment birth the rotted psyches of its people, or can only sociopaths create a land like this in the first place?

There's a token confrontational moment with their reality, but Efraim is such a sociopath he doesn't blink and David is too invested in still seeming like a good guy despite the war profiteering to pontificate on the cost of war.

But in the wake of Scorsese's charismatic sociopaths came movie gangsters who are downright cuddly: Guy Ritchie's wise - cracking stick - up men, Luc Besson's admirably professional thieves, and Mark Wahlberg's gallery of handsome rogues, just to name - drop a few notable offenders.

Choice villains are found in the infected, as well as the rational sociopath running the military operation out of Manchester (Christopher Eccleston).

Before being sidetracked by a gig as South Korea's Minister of Foreign Culture, Lee Chang - dong had helmed two of his country's most compelling dramas in recent years: Peppermint Candy, a brilliant mash - up of Forrest Gump and Irréversible that's superior to both, and Oasis, which opens with a sociopath raping a disabled mute and blossoms into one of the decade's most delirious romances.

With both actors matching his enthusiasm for complex characters and the taut, challenging story about a brain - damaged ex-jock (Gordon - Levitt) being played by a seductive sociopath (Goode), the conversation turned from defying audience expectations, to what constitutes normal, to the wonders of location filming during winter in Winnipeg.

However, for me one great aspect of this overpopulated super-fuck-fest is a increase in adaptations of more adult «Hero» stories one such title of course is the pansexual scarlet sociopath known as Deadpool.

The Dirty Dozen - inspired plotline involves black ops ringleader, federal agent Amanda Waller (Davis, Blackhat), bringing together Task Force X, a group of strangers, all violently criminal super-powered sociopaths locked away in elaborately imagined high - security prisons, forced to do the government's dirty work to stave off the threat of other meta - humans that, in the wake of the death of Earth's savior, Superman, can't be stopped by conventional forces.

by Walter Chaw A genuinely good updating of the James Bond mythos from plastic, moldering relic to bloody, sweaty sociopath drunk on his own virility and general misanthropy, Martin Campbell's Casino Royale — though the umpteenth chapter in a decades - old testosterone fever dream — is very much a part of this day and age.

Before Daniel Day - Lewis» triumphant return to the screen in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York — playing Bill the Butcher, the dandified, knife - throwing, mustachioed sociopath who ruled the mid-nineteenth-century slums of Lower Manhattan — the British actor hadn't been onscreen since 1997's The Boxer.

His character is soon brought in to take on and help in the case of a brilliant, yet troubled sixteen - year - old girl to determine is she victim of a horrific trauma or is possibly a sinister sociopath.