Sentences with phrase «sociopaths in»

When he started out in corporate life, as Adams put it, «Though most of my immediate bosses were entirely reasonable and competent, the organization at large was riddled with hamster - brained sociopaths in leadership roles.»

You mention sociopaths in your comment; well it happens all too often that people with overblown egos get elevated to positions of power and prominence in our culture.

These moron sociopaths in Congress are trying to create a situation where they keep the EPA from doing their job, so they can continue to murder people.»

Outwit The Sociopaths In Your Life Stop getting taken advantage of by the sociopaths in your life.

I've been fascinated by the Clark Rockefeller case since I first read about it in 2008, as I am fixated on sociopaths in general.

... 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.

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.

Smart people who care and want to help are often used very badly by Narcissists and / or Sociopaths in «ministry» positions....

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

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.

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.

The Social Network condenses the two characters into Zuckerberg, a genius sociopath in a hoodie, and gives someone else the last word on how we should view him, another bad Sorkinism.

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

Finally, the biggest threat for the fifth slot is Jake Gyllenhaal, as a creepy sociopath in Nightcrawler.

Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a recovering heroin addict in Wild, while other actors went to further bodily extremes: Jake Gyllenhaal doffed 30 pounds to play an unblinking sociopath in Nightcrawler, while Steve Carell donned a prosthetic nose for Foxcatcher.

And here's a guy who's just played a military man in his next movie, and has come off an award season playing a sociopath in Nocturnal Animals, and has also played a superhero, and he spends most of his time talking about gardening, and cooking for his children, and doing the grocery shopping, and when discussing his marriage, here's how he describes what he gets out of it:

A child's angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses - shattering feature directing debut from actor Brady Corbet, with a cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.

Ahead of its U.S. release later this month, a trailer has arrived online for director Brady Corbet's upcoming directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader which stars Robert Pattinson, Liam Cunningham and Bérénice Bejo; take a look below after the official synopsis... A child's angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses - shattering feature -LSB-...]

Carell's performance as Doc is muted to a fault — to be clear, this is a performance that lays it on just as thickly as his work as the preening billionaire sociopath in Foxcatcher or the grossly misogynistic Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes.

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.

A sociopath in both films, manipulating two of her father's pupils into a competition for her affection; in Chang's film it is she, in a burst of anger, who slices off the hero's arm.

Whilst it is satisfying to fulfill your sims dreams, the sociopath in you may also enjoy creating a Sim that looks like your worst enemy.

It seems you can't go a day without reading about how law school enrollment is plummeting, big law firms are imploding, lawyers are flaming out faster than 4th of July fireworks, and the profession, once regarded as something to aspire to, now ranks, in the public's imagination, somewhere between human bug - eater and professional sociopath in terms of status.

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.

«Abusive narcissists and sociopaths employ a logical fallacy known as «moving the goalposts» in order to ensure that they have every reason to be perpetually dissatisfied with you.

A normal person wouldn't engage in the behavior; a sociopath wouldn't give a shit.

If you don't think it does, then you are either a sociopath, apathetic to any pain or pleasure you create in the world, or you are not consistent in your beliefs and live your life deceiving yourself into believing that life is worth living even though it does not have a purpose.

I don't LIKE that a girl who doesn't do anything to take responsibility for herself in a situation becomes a trigger for a sociopath but that doesn't mean it isn't a fact that she is.

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.

If someone found out their spouse was cheating, and in that first moment, without grief, despair or anger, simply recited that line and «forgave» them — you'd think they were faking it, didn't really love the cheating spouse anyways, or was a sociopath (or some combination thereof).

The key to adults communicating with a narcissistic sociopath is every word must be in writing — ONLY.

I think most people would benefit from reading «The Sociopath Next Door,» «Snakes in Suits,» or «Without Conscience.»

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.

The next sociopath whose reality is caught up in video games and easy access to the assault weapons, which make his game experience all the more realistic, is coming to a theater or school or mall near you.

@Andy You're argueing with the wrong person on this, I'm borderline sociopath so killing a baby would be wrong in the sense that you would go to jail.

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.

Your philosophy creates sociopaths and dictators who if left in charge would force even you to believe in «The state's beliefs» essentially making you a slave to whatever religion is chosen.

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)?

We just have to keep safe and be smart because in addition to terrorists, we have sociopaths and psychopaths who live among us.

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).

If there were a god, he would come down here and slap sociopaths like you for exploiting him in such ridiculous and negative ways.

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.

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.

He is known in town as a narcissistic sociopath and far from a good person, and someone you want to avoid cause nothing good comes from him.

At a sociopath doesn't change them in positive ways.