Sentences with phrase «of sociopaths with»

The most gratuitous practitioners of violence right now would be the Zetas, a rampaging league of sociopaths with a notable devotion to physical cruelty.

Not exact matches

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.

If religion would have helped with that, they would have used it just like sociopaths did for thousands of years with primitive tools.

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..

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).

But occasionally, you get individuals with defects (such as sociopaths), who act completely for their own good, do substantial harm to the community, and are eventually neutralized by the rest of the population.

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.

So I bring treats to people with whom I have a semi-formal relationship; that perfect space often created by the mutual exchange of goods and services, where said person can be certain I'm not a homicidal sociopath attempting to poison them, but knows that it would be rude and awkward to said relationship to refuse.

A psychopath meets a sociopath both with the maturity of 12 yr olds.

... 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.

They've got no armor to speak of and decorative chains weighing them down — an intimidating look right up until the moment when the sociopath with a murderous robo - giant says, «I choose violence.»

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 histories.

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.

There's a part early on when the sociopath is talking with the TV producer about what she wants: she talks about how crime, especially crime perpetrated by poor people and minorities on rich or white people, draws the most attention from viewers, followed by other sorts of mayhem.

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.

The good news is that symptoms of ASP seem to recede with age, says Dr. Black, especially among milder sociopaths and those that don't do drugs or drink to excess.

This is a major blind spot that applies to almost everyone — including all of us, before our personal encounters with sociopaths.

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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.

While True Crimes begins with the upsetting imagery of women raped and abused within the confines of the sex club The Cage, it quickly becomes a tiresome battle of wills between Carrey and Csokas, a man playing the same game as the iconic fictional sociopath Catherine Tramell of Verhoeven's Basic Instinct.

Another perfect scenario is when Rex tells Jeannette (who I should mention is incredibly well acted by a couple different child actors, and very sympathetic, although that's not very difficult to accomplish with this band of sociopaths) that he can and would do anything for her, so she asks him to quit drinking as when he hits the alcohol pretty hard (which is literally every day) he can not take care of them.

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.

Director Bruce A. Evans initially infuses Mr. Brooks with a slow - paced, character - driven sensibility that proves to be irresistible, as Costner effortlessly steps into the shoes of one of the most complex characters of his career and somehow manages to turn a sociopath into a figure worth rooting for.

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.

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.

That muscular embodiment is sociopath Teddy with his perfect body, a leader of the frat cult that moves into the house next door.

Sheer bloody genius, invites parrallels with Blue Velvet, namely with the Sociopath Detective / Frank, the all pervading sense of doom, plus the karaoke.

Think no further than the updated version of Sherlock Holmes he has essayed as a high - functioning sociopath with minimal social skills and no sense of decorum.

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.

Thoroughbreds (Mar. 9th) Two alienated girls come into each other's lives at just the right time to tear a bloody swath through upper - middle - class suburbia: Lily (Anya Taylor - Joy) has finally had it with her abusive stepdad; and junior sociopath Amanda (Olivia Cooke) is just merciless enough to float the idea of killing him.

Hallam Foe (2007), starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as a Holden Caulfield - like sociopath, was an exhilarating coming - of - age movie with an adult, sometimes frightening tone; it opened here to scant press under the unhelpful new title Mister Foe.

Madoff (Robert De Niro) is humanized in this context, since he's portrayed as a clueless sociopath who does not understand the extent of the damage he's caused, and only superficially empathizes with people he thinks he cares about.

Jake Gyllenhaal gives a brilliant, career - best performance as Lou Bloom, a perversely charismatic, wildly ambitious, and completely unscrupulous sociopath with a disturbing work ethic in writer - director Dan Gilroy's riveting edge - of - your - seat thriller, «Nightcrawler.»

The Witch's Anya Taylor - Joy plays a straight - laced teenager reacquainted with her childhood bestie (Olivia Cooke, the dying girl of Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), a self - aware sociopath who did something ghastly to her family's horse.

Its sole bonus feature is a 11 - minute making - of featurette which interweaves footage from the set and film itself with interview chats with Bateman, Kunis, Judge and producer John Altschuler, and Judge mocks his acting cameo in the movie and shares that his inspiration for Kunis» character was «a sociopath whom everyone happens to like.»

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (**) Yorgos Lanthimos» provocation about a prosperous surgeon (Colin Farrell) with a young fan who turns out to be a stalker and a sociopath, forcing the physician into a sick game of gruesome choices.

«Is he kind of like a narcissistic sociopath, and he's an artist, so every girl falls in love with him because he makes her feel bad about herself, and that's the love story?

Though he comes across as a mild sociopath at times (like in one scene where he matter - of - factly tells Phil that he wants to rip open his antique grandfather clock to see how it works), Gyllenhaal imbues Davis with enough charisma that he turns an otherwise unsympathetic character into someone whose erratic behavior is understandable, if not completely relatable.

A couple of your mates are very interesting, like a brilliant rigger who calmly and openly admits that he is a sociopath with no empathy.

Set to start shooting in Cleveland on February 16, WAKE tells the story of Red Forrester (Willis), a sociopath with no fear, who returns to his childhood home on a remote island for his brother's wake.

Spending 90 minutes with a pair of teenage sociopaths may not sound like your idea of entertainment, but these two are a peculiarly nasty pleasure to be around, in part because they seem utterly indifferent to either your presence or your approval.

Aforementioned nerd Radish (Joel Rice) describes Whitman as «one of my favourites» with a grin that might mark him as a sociopath in a more recent film, but passes for harmless quirk in the bygone era of Final Exam.

From the very moment we stumble upon Lou Bloom, the sociopath with a banker's name, everything feels like a happy accident, as if Gilroy's camera just happened upon this X-manly-purported slip of a human and decidedly followed him like a nightly news crew.

As with most shows dealing with the expansive drug trade, there is of course a «bad cop» (Agent Roy Petty, who I still can't decide if he's a sociopath or just extremely damaged), the omnipresent cartel boss (played by Esai Morales, who can challenge Jason Bateman in a «why doesn't he ever age» contest), mysterious and helpful locals with unknown motives, and a family of slow - talking, brutally violent yokels who traffic heroin.

The series» skewed morality and concepts of right and wrong, and all the fascinating dilemmas it posits, are all treated on a surface level; even Light, who in the anime was a budding sociopath with a God complex, is turned into your everyday movie version of a mopey emo teen.

He's taken to a remote community led by a charismatic counter-cultural sociopath known as Freeboot who's obsessed with the supposed hidden messages buried within old Beatles lyrics and the disintegration of workers» rights, the escalating differential between the haves and the have - nots, and the slap - on - the - wrist «justice» doled out in cases of billion - dollar corporate malfeasance.