Example sentences for: neurotic

How can you use “neurotic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.

  • If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.

  • Consequently, psychoanalytical approaches and behavioral therapy were applied to solve possible neurotic conflicts (Plankers 1999).

  • The movie uses her open Asian face to make the French faces seem neurotic and devious: Hers is like a clear pool next to their rather pinched visages.

  • She spent the rest of the year getting over it and growing up, so convincingly that one speculated she might have become too sophisticated even for the neurotic brainiac Noel.


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