Sentences with word «pyromania»
Pyromania is a word used to describe a mental condition where a person has an uncontrollable desire to set fires. Full definition
When researchers examined individuals in the criminal system who had exhibited repeat fire - setting behaviors, they found only 3.3 percent of that population met the full criteria for pyromania.
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No country in the world has ever industrialized without burning a ton of coal, and I tend to agree with Stephen [Pyne] that there's something about pyromania that's baked into humanity.
There isn't a single known cause of pyromania.
Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania...
In terms of pharmacological options, some have found success in treating issues like kleptomania and pyromania with medication.
The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.
To qualify as true pyromania, the fire must not be done for personal gain, monetary or otherwise, or as an act of revenge or psychotic episode.
The chances that a child will recover from pyromania are very slim according to recent studies.
Cody (Danny McBride) handles explosives more by pyromania than expertise.
this is a provocative novel that does not shy away from the issues: conceiving a child to save another; who has rights over a minor's body; is it possible to love a child too much; is it possible to love all one's children equally; teenage pyromania.
David: Can we escape our own pyromania?
Someone with pyromania starts fires due to the level of arousal it produces.
Little is known about pyromania.
- Sergei Eisenstein on Disney (quoting text book descriptions of pyromania) «The imagery of «The Palace» collapses the two forms of cognitive plasticity described in the voice over: that of impaired vision and its impact on subjectivity, and the willful abstract construction of the memory palace, that purports to extend neurological capacity.
Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania and befriended a limo driver Jerome (Robert Pattinson) who is also an aspiring actor.
Her acting dreams are slipping from her grasp and her young son is developing a fondness for pyromania.
Fueled by people's pyromania and the El Niño global weather phenomenon, carbon dioxide concentrations reached 409.44 parts per million on April 9 at an air - sampling station atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a rise of more than five ppm since the same date last year.
The Guardian praises «Lee Chang - dong's masterfully crafted Murakami adaptation» about «sex, envy and pyromania.»
About half of my time was investigation - centric, as I explored the town, eventually learned about a pyromania cult and got some help from said pyromaniacs.