| 单词 | neurotic |
| 例句 | I keep a good neurotic’s calendar, and it’s three years, to the day, since Seymour killed himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z "Well, you were right. I am neurotic. I could never settle down in either the country or the city." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z If the queen were smarter, she would probably be hopelessly neurotic. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s Saturday and the time has come to leave my free lodgings and neurotic avian roommate. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoagland necessarily considered everyone a world-political creature, with a heightened persona, a neurotic cultural manner. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z No, he didn’t think that Bobby was neurotic, and he didn’t recommend therapy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was typical Mommy neurotic behavior, and I didn’t fully understand it till I learned how far she had truly come. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did she have to be so neurotic and perfectionistic that she was online the minute registration opened for students with last names beginning with A through C? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z For example, an orthodox psychoanalyst might predict a certain kind of neurotic behavior. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are becoming a very fine neurotic, my friend.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "And you," I continued with sudden force, "laughed and said I had the perfect setup of a true neurotic and that that question came from some questionnaire you'd had in psychology class that week?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses, who Blaine once said was the only person at Yale that he trusted completely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I think you’re really smart. Definitely a bit on the neurotic side, but totally smart. And brave, too.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Married women were not allowed to teach in those days, hence most of the teachers were women made neurotic by starved love instincts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please excuse me while I escort this extremely disturbed and neurotic child to the other side of the car,” said Tootie. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I was wrong of course, morbid, stupid; this was the hyper-sensitive behaviour of a neurotic, not the normal happy self I knew myself to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Settling into his niche as a miracle worker for tough and neurotic horses, Pollard earned assignments on nearly three hundred mounts and guided them to more than $20,000 in total purse earnings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambitious people, mannered people, neurotic people, high-society people—the kind of people who make life in the city so interesting—became unbearable to me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It described the music as ‘fidgety, screaming and neurotic’, and as a ‘confused stream of sound’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He knew nothing of the mystical and neurotic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a compulsive, essentially neurotic kind of behavior, as mindless as an Ionesco character, but the wasp cannot imagine any other way of doing the thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to the power of ten. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As Adora, she encompassed everything from southern primness to neurotic malevolence to deep-set dysfunction. Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z I don’t mean to dismiss any of this as neurotic. The Clean Queen Talks Quarantine 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z This digital river of information is turning normally level-headed decision-makers into hypersensitive, reactive neurotics. | Big (Bad) Data 2014-02-26T14:00:25Z His white gloves were not product placement but something your weird friend might wear, and in the old hand-drawn animations he seemed to quiver a bit, like a genuine neurotic in tight red shorts. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “Silicon Valley,” a black comedy about neurotic coders and start-up culture, is a cult hit. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z It seemed to be something only happy, healthy, bouncy people did – not neurotic smokers who were scared of everything. How running cured my anxiety – and a broken heart 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Daisy, neurotic and frustrated and unemployed, goes into therapy with a domineering doctor who hypnotizes her, ostensibly to help her quit smoking. I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z What follows is an attempt to describe somebody just neurotic enough: Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z But if she is presented simply as that kooky neurotic gal from that sitcom, the accolades hardly seem worth giving. What was Tina Fey's humor prize really about? 2010-11-15T21:01:00Z At moments, all four players employed a perfectly matched, tense vibrato that lent the music neurotic urgency. Finding a Musical Ideal in the Vermont Woods 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Anna Kendrick stars as Martha, a chatty neurotic given to extreme mood swings who spirals into self-pity and excess when her boyfriend betrays her. What’s on TV Tuesday: Anna Kendrick in ‘Mr. Right’ and Phi Slama Jama on ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z She nailed the bun, achieved a creditable facsimile of the neurotic thoroughbred physique, and managed OK with the expressive arm-flapping. When did actors stop doing their own dancing? 2011-01-20T21:30:00Z “You Know Who You Are” is about a neurotic, suburban kid who actually doesn’t have a clue about himself. Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z David Yelland endows Hal's true father, the king, with a richly neurotic mix of historic guilt, paternal anguish and insomniac restlessness. Henry IV Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-28T17:03:27Z Mr. Abrams certainly does, and he evokes that bygone world with a sense of period detail that sits right on the line between uncanny and neurotic. | 'Super 8': Hey, Guys, Let?s Make a Monster Flick 2011-06-09T15:28:58Z How is that going to impact him and how is it going to impact all of the people around him who thought of him as somewhat neurotic? "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Partly this is because of the neurotic revisions with which Bruckner habitually responded to vicious critics and well-intentioned students alike. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z We get too much of Franzen the neurotic traveler, and so many birds that one wonders why the editors didn’t just go all-out natural history. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z They point out that we’re talking about an inconclusive hearing for something extremely distasteful that happened very long ago to an overrated neurotic/cultural treasure. Crimes and misdemeanors: Woody Allen and what we get wrong about sexual abuse 2014-02-06T13:00:00Z She’s sharp and digressive, neurotic and funny, bristling with rigor and wit. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z These characters, a collection of lonely hearts and neurotics, are meant to be exaggerated types, but the portraits could do with a bit of comic subtlety. The off-kilter charms of 'Amelie,' made musical at the Ahmanson 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z When a reporter observed that he seemed far less neurotic than the Writer, he said, “I’m just masking that well,” adding, “There’s a lot of me in the character.” Is Nothing Secret? Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of ‘Privacy’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A large window on one side is a reminder of the outside world, yet what brings the room to life are neurotic bodies, packaged for a party. ‘Kontakthof,’ by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, at BAM 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z "I'm neurotic; so I was like: 'I should have done this bigger or started this higher.' I drove myself crazy." Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity. Holy Rollers ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:50Z Gustav Mahler was not only the first great symphonist to usher music into the modern age, he was music's first great modern neurotic. Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic power through Mahler's potent Sixth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The book becomes an intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind, and it is streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and — despite Isherwood’s fundamental discretion — plenty of frank talk. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z One, of course, was Stephen Sondheim, setting words to his own music with a neurotic complexity that defined that time and ours. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z It says, I am slaking my neurotic hunger in your presence and you are slaking your neurotic hunger in my presence and in this we are together. Am I boring? 2013-05-31T00:00:00Z In other words, unlike most films about pretentious, neurotic academics, something exciting actually happens in Irrational Man. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z These neurotic fears were compounded by the grueling realities of , when she was in her teens and had begun drawing and painting with ferocious concentration, clinging to art as a lifeline. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z Hall agrees: "She was determined, but not one of those rather black, neurotic and silent actresses." Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z Did choose to go on the campaign trail for the amply proportioned, or is she simply a talented woman who doesn't happen to be neurotic about her weight? Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z Bout.That – with those clipped/clipping dots seem designed to reflect their uptight, neurotic vision. New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z The manuscript, about the deliciously neurotic Plumb family of New York City, landed in publishers' "in" boxes on a carefully selected Monday in November. Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney reflects on family, her midlife turn to fiction and the bidding war over her first novel, 'The Nest' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Or will he now appear perfectly, boringly at home and no longer the neurotic oddball among laidback Californians? Will a move from LA to New York Curb Your Enthusiasm? 2010-05-20T09:55:00Z But she was this dark and neurotic Jew from Los Angeles, and I thought she was awesome.” Actress Mara Wilson has a memoir. She's not Matilda anymore. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But this sonata, written in 1978, takes expressive tension to neurotic heights, pushing the cello line to near breaking point in the two slow movements that frame a furious scherzo. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z Their life – their boss, their partner, their kids – needs them to be neurotic, or depressed, whatever they are. The psychoanalyst's tale – why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows 2013-01-07T19:00:03Z From the first phrase in the orchestra, each note articulated with almost neurotic clarity, there was the sense hovering over the performance of big-I Interpretation. Review: The Philharmonic and a Conductor Get Reacquainted 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z And while Mr. Stiller’s Matthew is both reliably and appealingly neurotic, it is Mr. Sandler who excels, both riotously and poignantly. Review: Adam Sandler Is a Revelation in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z In this uneven novel, Ms. Roiphe, nearing 80, valiantly strives to keep alive the increasingly hoary but still appealing idea of New York as one big neurotic chorus. Reviews: New Books From Anne Roiphe, Nickolas Butler and More 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z I just play neurotic, fey people who would have died with a cold compress to their head. Elementary, my dear Cumberbatch 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z I’m neurotically neurotic about everything being in its place; Laura is not. Their Relationship Morphed From Dislike to Inseparable 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “Everyone going out for the show had the same personality qualities,” she said, adding that they were “not necessarily outcasts but definitely more neurotic than most teenagers.” ?Skins? Will Arrive Soon on MTV, Baring All That It Can 2011-01-04T01:07:07Z A comedy icon, Wilder was known for playing neurotic characters caught up in hysterical schemes. Celebrities Pay Tribute to Gene Wilder After His Death 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The only possible better choice for a neurotic, gifted shut-in who’s always quick with a quip? 12 Hours Watching John McClane: The Diary of a Die Hard Marathoner 2013-02-14T20:44:04Z Distant Voices was the 1988 feature debut of Terence Davies, the intensely neurotic Liverpudlian who would go on to make The House of Mirth and The Deep Blue Sea. Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill 2012-11-16T10:00:00Z Joe has been described as neurotic and paranoid, but you have to get beneath all that rubbish to find the real person, and the real person was a gem. How we made The Servant, by Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig 2013-03-25T19:10:59Z Is it a neurotic tic, a hangover from Princess Diana’s death, itself a rerun of Grace Archer’s fictional death in 1955, weirdly greeted by floral tributes delivered to BBC Broadcasting House? 'I never knew how much I'd write crying': Peter Bradshaw on film star deaths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Set in New York, “The Nest” features four neurotic siblings who are squabbling over their inheritance and struggling with the disappointments of middle age. The Author of ‘The Nest’ on How She Got Up the Courage to Write 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He was a loner, an obsessive, and a neurotic. Newton: The Last Magician and The Security Man – review 2013-04-13T06:00:50Z It’s about nerdy, neurotic Liz recognizing that she is, after all, a legitimate object of desire—a successful, smart woman who looks like Tina Fey—and embracing it rather than being freaked out by it. The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition 2012-02-24T15:19:47Z Maybe they were a tad too hyper-analytical or neurotic but they were always highly verbal and, more often than not, destined for the kind of happy ending they deserved. Ephron blazed trail in male-dominated industry 2012-06-27T12:01:06Z She was trying to be funny, but it sent me into a neurotic tailspin. My sex supplement problem 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z With a career that spans from the optimism of postwar reconstruction to the neurotic hyper-consumption of the early 21st century, it's difficult to know where to start with Grange's work. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z As someone who thinks about germs for a living, Mr. Sheldon may be more neurotic than most, yet a look at the growing number of products catering to traveling germaphobes suggests he’s not alone. Practical Traveler: How Not to Get Sick From a Flight 2011-03-02T11:00:00Z You buzz to be let in, just as Freud’s neurotics did 100 years ago. Freud’s City, From Couch to Cafes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z And one of its founding fathers, without a doubt, is Woody Allen, the neurotic Narcissus of the Me Generation, the bridge between midcentury psychoanalysis and digital-era selfie culture. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z “She has great humility, and is the least neurotic actress,” Ms. Lloyd said. The Gender’s the Thing: Harriet Walter Plays Shakespeare’s Heroes as Heroines 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z This is your chance to learn, once and for all, that you need not live in fear of all the world’s abusive, twisted, self-hating alcoholics and their neurotic programs of victimization. Shut up, old abusive drunk! 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Brooks, a godfather of neurotic, passive-aggressive film comedy, once made a movie called “Defending Your Life.” Movie Review: ‘This Is 40,’ From Judd Apatow and Starring Paul Rudd 2012-12-20T18:32:19Z They worried that a puppy would become neurotic or confused about which of the three apartments on different floors in the SoHo building where they live would be her real home. One Dog. Three ‘Co-Parents.’ What Could Go Wrong? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z He isn’t even especially neurotic, though he’ll admit to having a therapist. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter and keep her safe from the world. Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z “Mad Men” also drills deep into the weird, neurotic core of characters who are stock figures of the period. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z As a neurotic woman, you might think I'd scoff at such shenanigans, but really, this is the bread and butter of "Rescue Me," the reason why we keep tuning in. "Rescue Me": The tragedy of the modern guy's guy 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z When I told her I would be writing this article about her hair, my wife said: “OK. Just don’t make me seem too neurotic.” Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z “A city once famously neurotic is becoming malignantly narcissistic,” Moss writes, in one of many descriptions that sum up the state of affairs with an efficient wisdom. Tracking the Hyper-Gentrification of New York, One Lost Knish Place at a Time 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z And, in fairness, it’s not because I’m a seasoned traveler, but because I’m a neurotic one. Seeing Korea through his parents’ eyes "I'm not anti-technology, but I'm a neurotic worrier and it amuses me, or liberates me in a way to think of worst case scenarios," Brooker said with a laugh. 'Black Mirror' brings its dark reflection of digital world to Netflix 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Through hilariously neurotic narration voiced by the actor Danny Wallace, it also exposes you to the blocks’ hopes and fears. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z All these neurotic females get the avian thrashing they deserve, in a squawking, Jungian free-for-all of throbbing birds and fabulous hairdressing. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z In the movie her neurotic tendencies, like her facial features, were easily smoothed away. Review: A Darker ‘Frozen,’ With Glints of Ice and Murk 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He’s a 25-year-old case manager for trauma survivors and the mentally ill who carries himself with the neurotic swagger of a standup comic. Date Lab: He thought she was sweet. But was she weird enough? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z One was Ben Gliklich, a Horace Mann student and the son of two Manhattan doctors — “a neurotic, anxious Jewish boy from the Upper East Side,” according to his childhood friend Nathaniel Hochman. Of All the Taco Bells in All the Towns ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He is consistently rejected and irrationally sabotaged by his wife, Edith, who is portrayed as a neurotic harpy. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z What they will find is a brilliant ensemble of self-centered neurotics who somehow manage to be likable, despite their best efforts. New to ‘It’s Always Sunny’? Watch These 5 Episodes (at Your Own Risk) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z His father, who committed suicide when Mr. Bedford was a young man, was “a neurotic, complicated man, and I’ve consequently inherited a few, very wonky genes.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z As Jones explained to Brooker: “You are naturally suspicious and paranoid and neurotic.” ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z He bears a far greater resemblance to reality as my esteemed peers and I understand it today: he’s unattractive, unimportant, neurotic and prone to the occasional fit of grouchiness. From Birdman to Buzzsaw: how Hollywood captures critics on screen 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z If he believed in Hell, he would not risk going there merely to spare the feelings of a couple of neurotic women. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The opening shot, a street ballet of neurotic indecision that’s done in a single shot of intricately panning, tilting, swooping, and gliding audacity, sets the tone for the action that follows. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The blind man and his creepy amanuensis are inspired characters, unforgettably disturbing and unpleasant, sitting in the corner of the pub, parasitically soaking in all the neurotic whisperings. Dirk Bogarde's Victim shines a light on London's shadowy past 2011-08-08T09:42:02Z “They didn’t have any filters. There were no boundaries. They would just say the truth to each other but they were also very sensitive, very neurotic,” he said. Go behind the dancing to see what fueled FX’s ‘Fosse/Verdon’ 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Her opposite number Audry, however, was a socialite whose addiction to dancing led only to a neurotic netherworld of nightclubs, cocktails and sex. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z But, after years of binging and purging and popping pills, starving myself and wrecking my knees on the treadmill, I have gotten off the merry-go-down of neurotic dieting. I will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z They’re doing a Hollywood film of one of his recent novels, “The Rabbit Factor,” in which a rather neurotic insurance mathematician inherits an adventure park. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The irony, of course, is that these waiters are anything but invisible, and these rich, successful, famous people who eat off their trays are just as neurotic and frustrated and disempowered as they are. "Party Down": The best comedy you haven't heard of 2010-04-17T22:59:00Z Our neurotic worries and genuine fears, our mundane and existential anxieties, our daydreams, nightmares, insecurities and guilty regrets. Books of The Times: A Memoir by Roz Chast, in Words and Cartoons 2014-05-05T21:26:43Z Yet, cinematically speaking, the 1940s and early 1950s produced some of our most neurotic, haunted and self-divided protagonists. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z I could transfer some of my neurotic energy to him — and, of course, save his life. How Hypochondriacs Say ‘I Love You’ 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A psychoanalyst's son from Newton, Massachusetts, Roth doesn't conform to stereotypes of exploitation directors: those neurotic, pale-skinned sorts lurking in the shadows. Eli Roth: new blood 2011-07-26T20:45:00Z He added: “There’s an even-keel aspect to him that is not what I encounter with a lot of my very neurotic friends.” He Can’t Carry a Tune, but Chang-rae Lee Has a Song to Sing 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Our greatest play, “Hamlet,” is about a neurotic, grief-struck young man who can’t stop obsessing over the death of a loved one. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z But such a breezy, Instagram-friendly adaptation feels like a betrayal to Dessen’s original, neurotic protagonist, who has a more difficult journey from self-induced solitude to romance. ‘Along for the Ride’ Review: Becoming a Kid Again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z I was both puritanical and appalled by this, but now I see that this was her choice, pre-internet, a branding of the fantasy dream girl: intense, neurotic, beautiful. 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “Benchley wasn’t as neurotic or miserable as some of his colleagues,” the comedy historian and writer Ben Schwartz told me recently. Robert Benchley’s Legacy in a Era of Fraught Comedy 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Although Wood never became, except on , a popular star, he had no equal in my lifetime in portraying neurotic desperation or self-mocking irony. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z They are handsome and charming, quick-witted and exuberant, observant, obsessive, and, of course, neurotic. What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z That's what I thought: here was a smarter, funnier version of my neurotic self. The shadow over David Foster Wallace's The Pale King 2011-04-05T11:39:47Z They liked it if their heroes were a tad neurotic, with a bit of history. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z In the study in question, people who were good at this task – ie guessed accurately if the writers were worriers or not – were themselves less neurotic and less dominant. Can you detect neurosis from what someone writes? Quiz | Ben Ambridge 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z This was perhaps just as well, as I was neurotic enough to suffer weeks of nightmares after illicitly watching Gremlins, or even the shrieky red-eyed bit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. How Edgar Allan Poe scared the bejesus out of my childhood heart 2010-07-07T11:34:00Z Adding to Callie's problems is the fact that a new arrival in the neighbourhood, the dangerously neurotic Debs, is working at the after-school club. Debut crime fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:40:01Z Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time “Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,” Marcel Proust wrote. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z Christopher Zinovitch is just as effective as Luke’s neurotic atheist lover, Adam, who can’t abide Luke’s twisted justifications for “sinning” with him. ‘Next Fall’ a skillful blend of wit, drama and family 2013-03-15T22:54:19Z In the same year, Attenborough took another neurotic role on stage, a mentally disturbed Jewish GI in Arthur Laurents's Home of the Brave. Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Adrian Monk is a defective detective; a phobic, obsessive compulsive, neurotic mess. Six to watch: TV mavericks 2011-03-10T14:09:00Z Only the arcana of Academy rules about films being eligible for awards drives the neurotic pattern of heavy year-end movie releasing. Which Movies to See in January 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “It’s a deep neurotic need,” she replied, “better left unanalyzed.” Mary Griggs Burke, Collector of Japanese Art, Dies at 96 2012-12-18T07:57:17Z In Hannah, the women are presented mainly as rather sad victims who coddle neurotic or unfaithful men. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z She's played by Halley Feiffer with a quirky, likeably neurotic stage presence perfectly suited to this fragile but determined young woman. 'Tigers Be Still' treats depression with wry humor 2010-10-07T20:44:00Z Ben Stiller stars as Brad Sloan, the sort of neurotic but well-meaning character Stiller has made a career out of playing. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z “You’re a big cheese now,” he said to the neurotic comic. Marc Maron, at BAM, Finds That Happy Also Gets Laughs 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z This show flies past a lot of contributing factors as it burrows single-mindedly into Hedda’s neurotic impulses. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z If so, that's one very delicate bird we're dealing with – a jumpy, neurotic creature that is probably better off ignored altogether. Denzel Washington and the strange case of a very confusing clarification 2013-02-26T18:33:55Z So, does he worry about being typecast as the neurotic Jewish guy, one of Hollywood's most beloved and reductive tropes? Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social' 2013-07-04T15:58:10Z In a neurotic, not-wanting-to-jinx-it-for-them manner I had been predicting a sudden collapse for this film in all sections except 's with a huge swing to The Social Network. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z After that it was Ray's show, and the result can be summed up in a single proudly neurotic song title: "I'm Not Like Everybody Else." Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z We identify with them because they’re smart and funny and neurotic. In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z They talked about his custom-built blondes, his drugs, his neurotic eating and violent temper tantrums. The king is dead: a classic Elvis Presley tribute from the vaults 2012-08-15T09:57:29Z Unlike Gould, he’s not the least bit neurotic: His playing is full and round and solid. Goodyear makes iconic Gould program his own 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Miller added: “We’re so anxious about things and neurotic that it’s very rare we think things are going to be great. We’re just worried that it’s not good enough all the time.” Lord and Miller, Directors With a Golden Touch 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He was funny, curious — and bad-tempered, nervous, neurotic, dramatically selfish and a hypochondriac. Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z But the unusual agitation of Kate Lindsey's neurotic Composer, the presence of army and RAF personnel in the building, and the gathering darkness outside create a palpable sense of unease. Ariadne auf Naxos – review 2013-05-19T16:00:01Z Meanwhile a neurotic African-American woman is trying to find a child to adopt. My new film policy: random fandom 2010-07-15T21:33:00Z Jenny Wong-Stanley of Brooklyn said that her daughter Josie, 4, has developed a “constant and neurotic” habit of sweeping her hair to one side in an effort to look like Elsa. Disney’s Animated Film ‘Frozen’ Has Some Children Obsessed 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z At times he is a comic figure of neurotic propriety, obsessively salting and peppering his food at breakfast with his wife. A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex 2011-11-22T17:45:41Z He was a neurotic composer, and you can feel the tension, the turnaround from simple experimental thrills. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z When we meet today at his house in north London, Blumberg comes across as sweetly neurotic, living more like a middle-aged eccentric in New York than a 23-year-old in Stoke Newington. Hebronix: the master of reinvention 2013-07-29T11:31:40Z Dan is the most warm and welcoming and truly observational and neurotic funny person, without ever taking anyone down or being weird and negative. In a Holiday Lesbian Rom-Com, Kristen Stewart Saw Herself 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In the days before, I subjected Millie to a neurotic deep dive, scanning what social media profiles I could find for clues about her. I Bet You Think These Songs Are About You 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “I’m always looking for a sign — not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a neurotic writer kind of way,” Mr. Larson said. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z This is an anatomy of two decisions recently made by a pitiful neurotic. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This is how a neurotic makes a decision 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z But at the end of the day, we remain in a cold hotel and this still feels mostly like a very smart and stimulating piece about three wealthy, neurotic Americans trying and failing to connect. 'Madagascar': Puzzling through a young man's disappearance 2011-01-26T23:20:38Z But it was the first group to whom Mr. Fallon, something of a neurotic onstage, a tattooed Woody Allen, addressed his asides. Music: A New Dawn Breaks for the Gaslight Anthem 2010-06-18T18:03:00Z In contrast to the morbid and wildly neurotic Enoch, he’s matter of fact, very sensible, and more than a little exasperated by his friend’s extravagant moods. The New Season Film: The Breakthrough Performances of the Fall 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z When Barton Fink, the neurotic screenwriter cooked up by the Coen brothers, scrambles to write a wrestling picture, his peers prescribe the basics. ‘Cassandro’ Review: Love and Lucha Libre 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The British works, he said, “seemed to be neurotic and self-obsessed and usually to do with four young people in a room expressing their angst.” Howard Davies, Theater Director in Britain and on Broadway, Dies at 71 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z "I'm neurotic," said Iannarino, a slight man with delicate features and the blush of a beard that seems an afterthought. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z They are amusingly neurotic types who begin to overstay their welcome as their skit-like scenes multiply rather than deepen. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z But Carol benefits hugely from its two principal actors, Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who distil exactly the right kind of neurotic energy required for the roles. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 7: Carol 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The statement is all the more remarkable given that Stern was raised in Manhattan, the epicenter of neurotic behavior — not to mention shrinks. The Illness That Had No Name 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “At best a couple is a workable neurotic pact,” Kipnis writes. ‘Love in the Time of Contagion’ Observes Mutations in Domestic Life 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z He met an equally neurotic fellow student with an even more mordant wit, Elaine May, whose father was an actor in Yiddish theater. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies “She’s someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, unlike me, who is much more the neurotic, analytical type.” Now Showing: A First Love That Stuck 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z He begins as a quiet neurotic, but evolves into a loudmouth near closing time. Critic’s Notebook: Proven in Britain, Two Comics Try to Take New York 2013-06-17T21:44:00Z “They think I’m a little bit crazy, a little bit neurotic,” she says, with a touch of frustration. Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Mark Ruffalo smashes his way into Thor: Ragnarok first as that big green bad mood Hulk and later, in the movie’s best bits, as the blissfully neurotic Bruce Bannon. 'Thor: Ragnarok' Is More an Approximation of Fun Than the Real Thing 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The performances are enjoyable – particularly from Ciaran Kellgren as a neurotic student so determined to reduce his carbon footprint that he is anguished about the tendency of locally sourced vegetables to increase his methane output. The Heretic – review 2012-10-02T17:10:46Z I don't want to be a neurotic or crazy. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z “It’s funny, because I get really neurotic about traveling and working and being very busy, and then I think my problem is that I’m in demand,” he told The Jewish Exponent in 2020. Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian With a Distinctive Voice, Dies at 67 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Obviously if someone is flagrantly neurotic or OCD, I'm going to notice it as a professional. 2010-02-17T15:05:00Z The office was a minefield of pettiness, greed and neurotic silliness. There's more to the office than "The Office" 2011-09-05T17:01:00Z “Thankfully, the decision is not in the hands of two neurotic 26-year-olds,” Mr. Paul said. ?A Christmas Story: The Musical!? Aims to Become a Franchise 2011-12-05T23:16:05Z She is not explosively anxious, or neurotic and hyperverbal, like many of her best-known characters on “Saturday Night Live”; all that energy seems tamped down into a more controlled cautiousness. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z She was neurotic about where her work appeared in the magazine. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z But as the material Disney wants to handle gets darker — in this case it is positively neurotic — its formulas get harder to justify. Review: ‘Frozen’ Hits Broadway With a Little Magic and Some Icy Patches 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z So she has not worked a lot, but she gave a committed performance as an unpleasant neurotic in American Beauty – impressive proof of how little vanity she has. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z After seeing so many on-screen portrayals of the lovable Woody Allen neurotic, Mr. Huston said, “it’s fun to play another type of Jew.” ?Magic City,? Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach 2012-03-30T21:10:08Z We live in fragile, uncertain, neurotic times and Downton is a world of self-confidence as a nation. Hugh Bonneville: escape from Downton 2010-12-19T22:00:00Z Sam has always been loyal and generous, neurotic and melodramatic, wickedly but unostentatiously smart, frank and funny and someone who makes the people around him feel funny, too, because he laughs frequently and hard. My Friend Has Cancer 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z With Greenberg, Mr. Stiller’s gallery of neurotic underdogs expands to include a sometimes truly off-putting misanthrope. Film: Ben Stiller: There?s Something About Mortification 2010-03-12T04:24:00Z “As a neurotic New York Jew, what feels like real life to me is so much more awkward than what I always see onstage.” Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Apparently you’re not a neurotic, hollow, self-hating person who smiles at the right times and laughs at the right times and goes home hating herself. Am I boring? 2013-05-31T00:00:00Z Leslie plays her apprehension with such nervous energy it borders on the neurotic. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z They’re profoundly neurotic and highly articulate—in other words, crazy and unable to stop talking about it. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The line befits the sultry grooves on the band’s new album, “Hymns,” an effort that trades the group’s once neurotic, combative undertones for an easy, ethereal conviviality. Pop & Rock Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Her ill-gotten infant is neurotic, doubtless because he's had no father-figure to sort him out. The Switch betrays women with an eye on their biological clock 2010-09-06T11:07:00Z LD And I’m probably the most neurotic sexual partner you could inherit. Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow on ‘Girls,’ ‘Geeks’ and Trolls 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z “At the same time you have to have this appearance. All of your neuroses — and I’m as neurotic as any actor — get heightened with that level of focus.” Kit Harington says Jon Snow’s death sent him to therapy and made him feel unsafe 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z It’s an approach that sabotages the show’s original wit, which hinges on the paradox of classic-looking fairy tale figures acting and sounding like latter-day urban neurotics. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z It’s time everyone stopped being so neurotic about this issue. MoMA Finally Embraces Fashion With Plans for ‘Is Fashion Modern?’ 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Pegg plays Jack, a neurotic writer whose heebie-jeebies get the better of him after he researches a book about serial killers. Simon Pegg and Crispian Mills: 'Musicians throw TVs. Actors just disappear' 2012-06-07T20:00:01Z A less Romantic interpretation is that foreboding was in Mahler's neurotic nature. Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic power through Mahler's potent Sixth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z She described Cusk as a "peerless narcissist" and the book as "acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains." Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z The ones who are most helpful to the kids are themselves divorced from society in some way or another: the neurotic Joyce; the brutish, alcohol-dependent Hopper; and the abrasive conspiracy theorist Murray. The New Season of “Stranger Things” Shows the Limits of Kids Saving the World 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z A singer, illustrator and professional-grade neurotic, Mr. Lewis plays a jangly and verbose kind of folk-rock that he augments in concert by flipping through portfolios of his drawings. Jeffrey Lewis, Singer and Illustrator 2011-11-22T23:09:54Z Set among neurotic New York Jews, this tale of love, desire and baseball combines the one-act musicals “Falsettoland” and “March of the Falsettos.” This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z In his heart, my father fancied himself to be a cross between his own cinematic heroes -- fast-talking, sarcastic Jack Nicholson and witty, neurotic Woody Allen -- yet he was neither. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z She and Henry pour themselves into their four-legged child with all the neurotic attentiveness of new parents. Books of The Times: ?The Puppy Diaries,? by Jill Abramson ? Review 2011-10-13T20:32:58Z If political attitudes are becoming that neurotic, it is doubly tragic that people live apart. So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again 2012-05-17T19:15:01Z This reflex of seeing only the thing you want to see, and not the many other things immediately adjacent to it, is expedient, neurotic, and totally human. Napoleon on the Backstairs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z If anything, his narrators are more neurotic than ever, living in "a city sorrow built" and forever worrying that "we've got another thing coming undone". The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z Mr. Cosby didn’t work blue; he wasn’t cerebral or neurotic; he rarely spoke about race. Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z She could just as easily be nominated for her tart, intense performance as a neurotic middle-aged healthcare professional in the underrated film Mother and Child, another engaging arthouse release that surfaced a few months ago. Hollywood's late bloomers 2010-08-26T22:00:00Z Shelbie also told me that, as a journalist and a generally neurotic person, she kept wondering how the date was going to play in print. Date Lab: She was funny and talkative. He was put off. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z As in Ms. Jaoui’s earlier films, every character is neurotic, high-strung and complicated. Critic’s Notebook: Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Looks at Real Life 2014-03-05T23:11:14Z "Curb" is a larger-than-life depiction of its star's neurotic world. Larry David will be back for another 'Curb' season 2010-04-20T19:21:00Z Those who like their Tchaikovsky neurotic probably wouldn't have cared for it: this was not so much a psychodrama as a mature tragedy that proceeded with relentless power. Prom 53: GMJO/Davis ? review 2011-08-25T09:59:05Z Frame, misdiagnosed as schizophrenic, is insecure, neurotic, ill, but she is never portrayed as simply mad. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z According to this widespread belief, standup comedians are mad, sad and dangerous to know – more neurotic even than actors, competitive, ego-driven and professionally lonely. Can comedy make us happier ? and healthier? 2011-03-11T17:39:26Z “I bet regular people wouldn’t be this neurotic.” Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Hard drinking, hard living, and neurotic, the outlines of Jane’s exhaustingly dramatic persona very often overshadowed her art. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The primal trauma of “Annie Hall” is young Alvy’s neurotic realization that the world will eventually come to an end, destroying all traces of human life and retroactively rendering all action absurd. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “It’s so much better to be a neurotic in New York than in Nashville,” he explained. Stanley Siegel, TV Host Who Made Career on Candor, Dies at 79 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Jabbing at accents, pulling at rhythms, leaping between extremes of volume and mood, it was an anxious, even neurotic rendition of this trio — and that is meant as a compliment. Review: Tetzlaff Trio: Music That’s Off Kilter, Even Boozy 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Ruby Sparks,” an ingenious and delightful variation on the Pygmalion myth, toys whimsically with these questions, as the initially perfect relationship between a neurotic author and his sprung-to-life fictional creation goes through changes. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z Anthony Bailey, a British writer who also worked at the magazine in those days and later became friends with Ms. Groth, described her as “cheerfulness itself” in an environment of “neurotic or semi-neurotic writers.” Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z In On Tour, that master of neurotic smoking, French actor and Bond villain Mathieu Amalric, directs and plays a downtrodden impresario leading American burlesque dancers around French port towns such as Nantes and La Rochelle. Cannes: tales of misery, money markets and Maid Marian 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z In my view, some directors and theatres have become too neurotic about critic-proof previews. The theatre preview system may have passed its use-by date 2012-06-04T13:18:02Z Indie films’ favorite neurotic in Revolutionary Road and Take Shelter, he rarely raises his voice here. Michael Shannon in The Iceman: A Stone-Cold Killer 2013-05-02T09:45:59Z Not only is Louis C.K.'s comic timing perfect, not only is his comedic tone just awkward enough to highlight its neurotic undercurrents, but there's often an unexpected twist to these stories. TV's best new taboo-busting comedy 2010-06-26T23:01:00Z “I totally buy into that description. Let’s not get neurotic about this.” The strange story of Grateful Dead’s path to the summer’s hottest ticket 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Rosenfeld does not mean for us to like Karen all the time, and indeed, the character describes herself as a “neurotic elitist.” ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z This Mahler First may not feel neurotic enough for Mahler mavens, but it is suitable to proudly carry the Mahler tradition forward in Utah. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In these pages, she is a skittish striver, more neurotic bundle than conquering guitar god. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z He helped found the little magazine Neurotica — “for and about neurotics, written by neurotics” — which was an influence on the budding Beat generation. Anne R. Dick, Memoirist and Writer’s Muse, Is Dead at 90 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z And Mr. Shalhoub, a master of angst, embodies another distinctive low-grade neurotic. Review: ‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ Looks at Identity and Secrets Too 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Tim Riley, especially, tends to psychoanalyze Lennon’s lyrics, claiming, in his 1988 book, “Tell Me Why,” the singer needs “absolution” or is “venting the hideously neurotic side of his sexual conditioning.” It’s been 37 years since John Lennon was shot. Can we find the real Lennon in books? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z She is also as much of a neurotic nutcase as he is. The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Indie films’ favorite neurotic in Revolutionary Road and Take Shelter, he rarely raises his voice here. The Iceman: A Killer Role for Michael Shannon 2012-08-30T22:04:17Z Unless they are particularly neurotic – in which case, according to psychometrics, they won’t be able to. Are our children really trapped by gender stereotypes? 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The season of goodwill, giving and family morphs rapidly into that of neurotic self-improvement and fitness plans. New Year’s resolutions are a scam: Your anxiety makes the 1 percent mega-millions 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z She was the antithesis of the fashionista stereotype: funny and relatable — at times neurotic and little insecure, at times calm and confident. Rachel Zabar, Scion of Saul, Eschews Lox for Vintage Couture 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z But my job was to give these children a great Santa experience, not a neurotic Santa experiencing traumatic childhood flashbacks. Frisky moms, Porsche-demanding kids: A Santa-for-hire's Christmas in Los Angeles 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z His performance was shot through with twitching, neurotic energy, humor, and self-deprecating charm. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z People who are in power who are desperate about the next step can get very neurotic. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z A longitudinal study reported that university students were more open and agreeable — and less neurotic — after studying abroad, changes researchers attributed to relationships formed while traveling. You’re a different person when you travel. Here’s why, and how to transform yourself at home. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Outgoing, funny, and athletic, he is described by those who knew him as the opposite of neurotic. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z In the words of her daughter Abby, herself neurotic about her bad skin: "She wants to save the world." 2010-02-16T15:37:00Z Even if they reject us as their hopeless inferiors, it might be because they are a species just as neurotic, just as riddled with petty bigotries. Would aliens want to talk to Brian Cox anyway? 2012-11-08T17:15:01Z That was in a show called “Gypsy,” which found the neurotic cracks in human trumpets and redefined musical-comedy portraiture for the ages. Theater Review: ‘Fiorello!’ an Encores! Musical at City Center 2013-01-31T22:37:27Z This is Nina, the fragile but brilliant dancer played superbly by Natalie Portman, who perfectly suggests the neurotic dancer's discipline and repression of self. A dance of death at the Venice film festival 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z One approaches it instead for highly charged neurotic situations and for Williams’s adept word-geekery. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z She was feeling stuck in a rut, mired in neurotic roles, and she longed to break herself free. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And she did not seem like the hesitant neurotic of fame and constant lateness when she broke into the birthday song. ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z More to the point, how would you survive for 60 days in an overcrowded local jail in Clark County, Indiana, which houses 500 bored, neurotic and at times dangerous inmates? Could you survive 60 days in prison? Behind bars on the ultimate reality show 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z For every clever gag, like the Bing Crosby-inspired search engine "Bingle," there's a tired notion, such as a neurotic groundhog that sounds like Woody Allen or references to Richard Nixon. TV review: 'How Murray Saved Christmas' skews older 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Of constantly changing Irish weather, she writes, "If a person behaved this way we'd call them neurotic." Tess Gallagher poetry anthology worth the wait 2011-11-03T19:52:03Z He hits all of his best notes—charismatic ham, besieged and neurotic star, winking Hollywood skeptic, avuncular oracle, giddy conspirator—at just the right volume. Bill Murray’s Little Christmas Miracle 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Genji is a playboy prince, but a neurotic one, a Don Juan with more than a touch of Hamlet, capable of remorse, guilt and depression and a kind of obsessive self-pity. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Her neurotic adaptations to ongoing grief — including strange headaches and a mania for horoscopes — at some point morph into something else. Review: Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons,’ With All Its Seams Showing 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z It was a good excuse to work on a slightly neurotic Bach-piano-style piano music, which seemed to fit him. How Jonny Greenwood Wove the ‘Phantom Thread’ Score 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Tucci will play Cadenza the grand piano, Variety reports, a character described as a “neurotic maestro.” Stanley Tucci to Play a New Piano Character in Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The lonely neurotic at the center of Nathaniel Rich's comically bleak novel, "Odds Against Tomorrow," is nervous for a reason. Fears drive satirical 'Odds Against Tomorrow' 2013-05-08T17:26:12Z Freud promised his patients nothing more than the ability to trade in neurotic misery for common unhappiness. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z "Sleepwalk With Me": Comedian Mike Birbiglia brings his Off-Broadway one-man show to the screen, and the result is a likable combination of filmed monologue and neurotic relationship movie. May 23 at SIFF: 'Safety Not Guaranteed,' 'Sleepwalk With Me' 2012-05-22T22:03:04Z Even when not being manipulated by moneybags, the awards have regularly represented Broadway as a neurotic mess: defensive about its marginality, embarrassed by its serious works and insecure about its commercial appeal. A Chance to Fix the Tonys, and So Many Things to Fix 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z In contemporary television, anyone over 20 is far more likely to be just neurotic and narcissistic enough to take pride in having never grown up. 'Parenthood,' the adult in the TV family 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But: “I got pigeonholed as the neurotic, Jewish guy.” Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But it’s hard to overlook the slow pace and unrelenting barrage of clichés, from the ever-smiling, good-natured Zambians to the portrayal of New York as a haven for neurotic people and pets. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z More importantly, it taught me that you can’t always control major outcomes in your life, a realization which made me a less neurotic person. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Even with every single marvelous gift in the universe in her clutches, Carrie can find some way to be whiny and neurotic. Why "Sex and the City" won't go away 2010-05-25T00:20:00Z People who reported being concerned about time they wasted on Facebook “were more likely to be extroverted, neurotic, and anxiously attached.” Leaving Facebook? Easier said than done. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Pekar is often portrayed, even in his own comics, as an endearingly cantankerous and occasionally neurotic person, Ms. Seibel described him in a telephone interview as being cheerful in his final days. Tara Seibel Recalls Harvey Pekar?s Last Days 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z It specializes in "charismatics and neurotics" who tell true personal stories to an audience without the use of notes. Museum of Broken Relationships: Artifacts of the jilted on view at Soho House pop-up 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z But as a writer, you can't possibly walk around thinking all of these neurotic thoughts and blabbing them to everybody. Author Sloan Crosley 2010-07-14T08:00:00Z Ms. Staunton, a magnificent Momma Rose in “Gypsy” two years ago, is surely the frowziest, most compellingly neurotic Sally ever. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z One theory the field latched onto was psychoanalysis: now married couples had problems because of neurotic interactions and individual psychopathology. Couples Therapists Confront the Stresses of Their Field 2012-03-02T23:38:39Z At Last is the final novel, one thinks, in his series about his alter ego, the neurotic Patrick Melrose. Seven Books I?m Looking Forward to in 2012 2011-12-07T09:58:46Z But Loretta's songs, she would be horrified to know, make for easy listening, and Evans uses the alter ego to supply amusingly barbed remarks on the music industry and neurotic young womanhood. Loretta Maine 2010-08-13T13:01:00Z "Writers, especially young writers, are a neurotic, self-effacing, sensitive bunch," Reiser said. Franklin Leonard's Black List can help green-light screenplays 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z This may sound neurotic, but I had a lot to compensate for, including a slutty past involving, among other things, foreign royalty and high quality narcotics. What kind of monster hits her kid? Now I knew exactly what kind of monster 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z I am not so neurotic that I would allow myself to become homeless as happened when my long-term disability insurance canceled my policy. You don’t know $#% about CFS 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Allen still cannot resist presenting himself, through his compulsive showcasing of beautiful young actresses, as the triumphant neurotic stud. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z Neither does Dustin Hoffman, but Hoffman has an intensity and range and unnerving neurotic edge that Branagh lacks. Kenneth Branagh: The star who forgot how to shine 2011-03-31T20:31:01Z You might not think you want to see a movie about a neurotic, anxious writer perched at the abyss of failure. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z After weeks of bliss and a feeling of deep interconnectedness with everyone and everything, my neurotic mind reared back into first gear. Ayahuasca, meditation and activism: On cultivating the mindful politics of love 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z And for all its flaws, Rio centred on a neurotic male parrot who couldn't fly, shackled to a more competent female. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z The symphony is a remorseless act of self-analysis, and it ends in new psychological territory as he resolves its tensions into a serenity that lies beyond neurotic conflict. BBCPhil/Noseda 2010-06-08T21:31:00Z The first-ever Peanuts special was this surprisingly muted tale of Charles Schulz’s neurotic kid hero and his pathetic little tree. 10 Greatest Christmas TV Specials From Your Childhood 2013-12-12T10:45:46Z Part of his appeal is that he is a lovable neurotic — the opposite of the typical slick, packaged fashion designer persona. Elbaz puts his fingerprint on Lanvin 2011-11-14T17:59:04Z Allen’s film, starring himself and Diane Keaton as a neurotic couple living in Allen’s beloved New York, is often celebrated as a game-changing work by the director. Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z And the mantle of neurotic Manhattan’s poet laureate passed to Woody Allen, whose films offered a hipper variation on the same sensibility. Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed 2010-03-12T03:05:00Z But the truth is that I remain ambivalent, as uncomfortable with being defined by prejudice as with ignoring it, living up to the stereotype of the neurotic Jew. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I told Mr. David I disagree with his remarks in the past that people don’t like to see neurotic single guys or older guys onscreen after a certain age. Larry David, Master of His Quarantine 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z "One thing we were dissatisfied with, exasperated with, was this one kind of voice constantly being shown – this white male neurotic voice, over and over and over," says Maduka. New York magazines – start spreading the news 2013-01-06T00:07:33Z It also brought to life every applicant and their neurotic parent’s nightmare. Motherlode Blog: Does Vassar College owe the wrongly accepted students anything beyond an apology? 2012-01-30T22:08:28Z An entirely new level of dysfunction: Nervous breakdowns and neurotic behavior are part of the fabric of this strange family. Hello, Neighbor: Ranking Our 10 Favorite Movie Families 2013-09-19T17:03:15Z At the same time, in order to rehabilitate Mary, the filmmakers are driven to humiliate Elizabeth, who is a neurotic, indecisive introvert in contrast to her vivacious, outgoing cousin. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He was neurotic, certainly, but that was because he yearned after what he couldn't have. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z Portnoy and his parents are not at all religious but are nonetheless thoroughly and unmistakably Jewish in the neurotic sense. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z I have nothing against neurotic, self-deprecating losers, but I don’t necessarily want to have to admire them for it. Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z I'm interested in neurotic grown-ups trying to get through their issues and become a better person. With 'Five-O' on hiatus, Scott Caan gets to play (in a play he wrote) 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “I think I get neurotic — anything like that will mean it’s somehow self-involved.” Spike Jonze, Cinema’s Big Kid, Gets a New Playground 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z You would never know it from his act, which feels firmly located in New York club comedy, a category that for some evokes a certain neurotic sensibility or swagger or density of punchlines. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z How to make note of those changes — which genuinely inform and affect the viewing experience — without resorting to the neurotic cycle of blame and shame? From ‘Birdman’ to Zellweger: the actor as screen object Theo was his father’s son, therefore, developing in his own inimitable way, and the pre-school manager was simply being neurotic and overzealous in her concern for Theo’s development – his failure to hit certain key milestones. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z I’m neurotic and terrified of everything, so I’d never be the guy in Costa Rica driving the BMW a hundred miles an hour. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z In all this there’s a sort of neurotic grandiosity. The Paintings Are Delicate. The Show’s a Shambles. 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She is also prone to neurotic ramblings and cursed by an inability to remember her lines, or even what she’s just said in real life. Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Returns With Starry Eyes 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “We’re all fairly neurotic people, we actors. We have to be impressing somebody at any given moment.” John Lithgow: 'When the Brexit movie lands, I call dibs on Boris Johnson' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The material translates much more comfortably to the stage: instead of neurotic family interactions, we get an action-filled black comedy, broad satire of upper-class British manners — and a tour-de-force actor’s turn. Sunshine and Murder: The Movie-to-Musical Express 2013-11-20T14:00:41Z Block can come off like a self-centered buffoon, a stereotypically neurotic Jewish New Yorker out of a Woody Allen film. "The Kids Grow Up": Invading your daughter's privacy to make a film 2010-10-27T01:02:00Z The last man is a neurotic intellectual, another in the long line of modern literature’s outsiders. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “But then, I said to myself, ‘I hope is enough,’ ” said Mr. Ferretti, a genial neurotic whose list of collaborators includes Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Tim Burton. We Need a Miracle on 34th Street 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z We in turn witness Mr. Foulkes in action, at length — revamping his works, railing against the art world and speaking his neurotic mind. Movie Review: ‘Llyn Foulkes One Man Band,’ a Documentary 2014-05-06T20:27:51Z “If women were so biologically neurotic that they couldn’t endure the competitiveness of coding, then the ratio of women-to-men in programming ought to be similar around the world,” Thompson writes. A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Keen believes it takes a certain person to make an open relationship work, and “not a neurotic person or a paranoid person.” Happily, Ever Open 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z I was no longer so pretty, but I was not so neurotic either. Modern Love: The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap — Modern Love 2013-01-24T19:53:37Z Louis-Dreyfus, 57, has built a sitcom career on playing boldly neurotic single women. Julia Louis-Dreyfus to receive the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I am a bit torn, it did fall into a lot of typical cliches representing ballet dancers as neurotic and bulimic. Alice in dance 2011-02-28T12:36:10Z His previous film, Love and Death, dumped his classic neurotic New Yorker persona into a plot to assassinate Napoleon. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The most striking thing about them is how little he has changed: on stage, he comes across as a nervy, neurotic fast-talker given to flights of surrealism. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Brown, in her snappish mode, is wonderfully entertaining, and Ireland brings a sparkly, neurotic wit to the weakest material. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z And as he overlays his dancers again and again with darkness, drenching them in the music's neurotic tristesse, you sense his profound admiration. Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:05Z It was more that the only people they saw were these neurotic actors and musicians. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Or “by” Shostakovich, whose “Festive Overture” offered a bracing fanfare near the program’s start, followed by neurotic keyboard scramblings? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z And then there’s Theo, who’s suspiciously neurotic about people learning his identity; he’s widely hated and, on top of that, a recovering hothead. ‘You Should Have Left’ Review: This Haunted House Is Familiar 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z There’s a significant risk — just barely avoided here — of making Ginger sound like a latter-day hysteric, “a childless neurotic fool.” Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z I’m neurotic, so I did meticulous interviewing with all these Jewish kids here, all the interns. Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The scene’s cleverness comes from its merging of two incongruous registers: the poetry of “Hamlet” and the complaints of a modern neurotic. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In Birdman, he plays an actor so neurotic, he ends up running through Manhattan in his underwear. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z I chose not to get involved in it, because I wouldn't have been able to do the performance if I'd turned into a neurotic basketcase – like, 'Am I as pretty as these incredibly gorgeous women?' Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z It's always on the move, the very sound of a fluid, mischievous refusal to accept traditional organisation and the neurotic requirements of a wilting media for old-time fame and familiar forms of glamour. Paul Morley's Showing Off ... Dubstep 2010-10-01T17:37:00Z “Opera singers are highly neurotic individuals who eat neurotically,” Mr. Gelb said. Mr. Apple Pie, Ron Howard 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z "But I can't say that knowing who you are makes you less neurotic." Shirley MacLaine: the new dame in Downton 2012-08-24T22:01:23Z What happened to me that made me so neurotic that I feel the need to do all this? Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z And because Mr. Sanders has been a much-employed actor on stage and screen for some 40 years, he knows that oaks are rarely cast as the neurotic and cerebral title character of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” Jay O. Sanders on How an ‘Oak Tree’ Became Uncle Vanya 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z With so much to celebrate, this was indeed a celebratory, smiling reading: Punchy and taut at the start, yes, but without the neurotic, feverish quality that some conductors sustain throughout. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Outsize, neurotic Jewish characters who wisecracked through their tears were hardly new to Broadway when “Torch Song” opened there. ArtsBeat: A Flickering 'Torch Song Trilogy' in London 2012-06-13T15:21:13Z Moss and Perry are very different personalities — she bubbly and social, he serious-minded with a touch of the neurotic. Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry listen up to some common notes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Characters on the show often sing it to the character Sheldon Cooper, a neurotic physicist, when he's ill or upset. Lawsuit says 'The Big Bang Theory' stole 'Soft Kitty' song from late poet 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The end result is a new kind of National album — still dark and neurotic, obsessed with modern-day paranoia, but also bursting with an unlikely optimism and a very 2013 zest for life. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z From then on, he is not Bradley Cooper, or even someone in the mold of one of the finely detailed neurotics he has portrayed so compellingly in films like “Silver Linings Playbook” or “American Hustle.” Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z "He was conceptualised variously, or in combination, as obsessional, hysterical, paranoid and schizoid; a malingerer, manipulator and fantasist; highly neurotic; dissociated and confused; perverse and phobic." The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z This star could score at will, but could still be quite neurotic. Style Invitational Week 1421: Alternaugural Address ’21 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As a fictional character addressing an implied reader, his confession is necessarily private, but whereas Trump is publicity-seeking, bombastic, Bateman is masked, neurotic and private, a dark Batman to Trump’s Superman. Donald Trump, “American Psycho” muse: How the “Art of the Deal” elitist became a poor man’s Patrick Bateman — and now he’s a real threat 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z If I need objects they are within my neurotic grasp. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z If you're already a little neurotic about falling, you might need some counseling after the end credits. 'Mars Needs Moms': You may want a hug after all the falling 2011-03-10T02:19:57Z The film is studded with merciless pokes at the pseuds and neurotics and self-deceivers who enrich New York. Annie Hall: Archive review 2010-10-18T10:53:00Z When you add countertops the color of freshly fallen snow to this already neurotic equation, spot-cleaning takes on Sisyphean proportions. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z But her fear of sex develops into a neurotic fascination and horror of dust and dirt of all kinds, a condition that escalates into agoraphobia and paranoid episodes. Repulsion – review 2013-01-03T21:10:01Z There's something kind of refreshing about this grimy, nervy, confrontational indie – a portrait of a manically neurotic New York man who's difficult to like or befriend. This week's new film releases 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z Rather than glance over its main characters’ religion, the drama intersperses Jewish culture heavily throughout the series, departing from the nebbish neurotics popularized in sitcoms like “Seinfeld” and “Friends.” ?Magic City,? Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach 2012-03-30T21:10:08Z Then her face bobbed up in the window as soon as I’d put my car into park, her whole being attuned to my movements with a neurotic exuberance. Dog is love 2013-02-23T14:00:00Z Bittner has just the right rumpled charisma for the role — he's appealing enough to anchor the show but not so appealing as to make the character's neurotic inner life farfetched. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Suppressing her natural can-do personality, Witherspoon plays a more neurotic and conflicted character than usual for her, but one wishes the writing went far deeper to realistically explore Lisa's uncertainties and mixed emotions. Star power of little use in "How Do You Know" 2010-12-15T22:46:31Z This is, after all, a family of neurotics whose relatively easy lives are ruled by vague dissatisfaction. ‘Transparent’ Season 3 Premiere: The Prophet Elizah 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Yet the word “robust” hardly describes the repressed, fearful world in which the neurotic characters brood for much of the show. Review: ‘The Secret Garden,’ a Concert Revival in Which Sadness Morphs Into Joy 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Groff is winningly neurotic as a cranky composer facing mortality when hit by a brain malfunction. Gifts for the Discerning Theater Fan 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z I am highly strung, neurotic about responsibility and punctuality. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z The release of Garry Shandling's legendary naturalistic sitcom will delight fans, and it's heartily recommended to those new to the low-key adventures of the neurotic talkshow host and his gently dysfunctional backroom staff. This week's new comedy 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Considering American society’s neurotic preoccupation with youth and the hugely profitable exploitation of that obsession by a vast array of commercial enterprises, it’s a potentially rich vein for imaginative mining. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z She is both stalwart and neurotic, principled and partisan; she reins in her characteristic sensitivities and looks almost stolid. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z As he told one interviewer: At last, "happy and neurotic." Mike Nichols, directorial superstar with an eye for the 'real thing' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z "The Godfather," "Jaws" and "The Graduate" were in the rearview, and cultural stereotypes of neurotic, emasculated men overtook the narrative. Timothée Chalamet and the return of the Cool Jew 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The show is a deceptively casual tour of the comedian’s best attributes: quick-witted, neurotic and, above all, familiar. Viral YouTube clips help America’s TV comedy stars find new audiences 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Z, the neurotic main character of “Antz,” works to save his colony from a scheming totalitarian. From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z There is a lot of hope, but, above all, it’s a movie that pushes the cycle’s own baseline idea, of family and return, to newly neurotic extremes. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Friends describe Mr. Lipps as a fashion world Woody Allen, and entering the party he seemed touchingly neurotic, explaining that he was unsure if he’d been formally invited. Scott Lipps, Agent for Fashion Models 2011-11-30T23:10:32Z Not the black one, smart enough/To be neurotic and evade the vet./ The Attys: new digital poetry prize to be judged by Margaret Atwood 2012-08-02T11:57:58Z In his recent one-man show “Numb,” the popular young British stand-up Simon Amstell talked bluntly about his sex life in the charmingly neurotic vein of a young Woody Allen. Comedy: Gay Male Comics Await the Spotlight 2012-08-15T14:06:57Z She plays "Get the Guests" and brings up that famous imagined baby, mostly, it feels, because it's the only way of keeping the lid on the house neurotic, to whom she happens to be married. 'Woolf' driven by dangerous George 2010-12-13T00:23:32Z But something unexpected happens: Mendel falls madly in love with Trina, further entangling this skein of classic New York neurotics. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “I didn’t think it was humanly possible to be more neurotic as an actor than me,” he says. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Bernstein says that there are musicians of this sort, too, and Hawke asks him about Glenn Gould, whom Bernstein calls “neurotic.” A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z But many of the funniest, most satisfying performances took place in small rooms, none more so than the one by Liza Treyger, whose act has become a Richard-Lewis-level opera of neurotic self-deprecation. In Comedy, Timing Is Everything, Especially at Netflix’s Festival 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z But David mostly recalls the successful, neurotic assimilated Jewish men of Philip Roth’s ’70s novels. Joshua Cohen's novel 'Moving Kings' is brilliant 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The film’s bitingly funny and neurotic script boasts some of the most-quoted lines in modern cinema about love and relationships. Woody Allen's Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But it would bum me out if I felt that my characters just felt like — if it felt like I was coming back film after film as the same neurotic girl. Lena Dunham Interview, Part Two: The Personal Factor 2012-04-13T14:13:57Z But to be reductive about it, the Mod ideal boils down not just to a kind of neurotic self‑respect, but an emphasis on sharpness, an attention to detail, and everything being just so. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z There would be more female coders if females were interested in coding and were a little less neurotic, the argument goes. A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Spacey's spaced-out LA therapist takes a sledgehammer to your irony buttons as he dishes out advice to a motley crew of neurotic cliche clients and promotes his latest self-help bestseller, the wryly titled Happiness. Film review: Shrink 2010-06-03T22:25:00Z As a neurotic, tomboyish 7-year-old, I found them nothing less than magical. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z “The fear that my age would be disclosed became the neurotic focus of my life,” she writes. Lee Grant: ‘I Said Yes to Everything’ — including a facelift (but don’t ask her age) Not only do you sound neurotic, but shaming your partner – even indirectly – for forgetting your birthday is never going to lead to a happy union…or to a birthday present. 8 ways to have a relationship in the digital age without going insane 2014-04-24T12:00:00Z Ms. Silver, Mr. Silver’s mother, who more or less serves to punctuate the plotting here and there, seemed far more comfortable in her hilariously neurotic role in “Exit Elena.” Review: ‘Uncertain Terms’ Enters a Home for Pregnant Young Women 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Athletes present themselves as vulnerable neurotics instead of infallible Gods. LeBron James’s “The Shop” Reinvigorates the Celebrity Interview 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z “Kein Licht” treats its bleak topics — stupidity and blindness leading to man-made apocalypse — with neurotic humor and a taste for the absurd. At 75, the Holland Festival Is Back and More Global Than Ever 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z After living in Ivan’s deliciously neurotic mind for four chapters, in Chapter Five we get the unadorned text of Prue’s speech, a lecture that will earn her tenure if she pulls it off. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The journal entries paint a vivid portrait of a talented but troubled man who was both an earnest seeker of enlightenment and a neurotic perfectionist. Garry Shandling’s Riotous Scrapbook 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, that elevation doesn’t extend to poor Ensweiler, a pro at playing neurotic characters. ‘Mr. Pim Passes By’: drollery, manners, not much else 2014-02-06T22:23:33Z At home, this involves pacing the floor like Gus, the neurotic polar bear who compulsively trudged back and forth in his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo. David Sedaris, Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Whether it succeeds will depend largely on Hayes’s ability to embody the dour Levant, a sort of public neurotic who may no longer be familiar to contemporary audiences. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z He played the beleaguered, neurotic star of a 1950s television comedy show in Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” and the slobby Oscar Madison in a revival of Mr. Simon’s “Odd Couple.” Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z Amateur cricketers tend to be vain, anecdotal, passionate, knowledgeable, neurotic and given to fantasy. The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club – review 2013-07-07T11:00:00Z “I’m cripplingly neurotic when it comes to these interviews,” he says. Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things' 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The trumpeter Sam Jones created a riveting dialogue between a nasal, slightly neurotic muted voice and one that was warm and full-bodied. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Others, such as Beckett and Harold Pinter, took a more surreal approach to distilling the neurotic preoccupations of the characters they put on stage. A new discovery for science and art: the cultural divide is all in the mind 2012-11-24T16:02:57Z “Four days later, I was in a neurotic spiral: I should have committed earlier.” After a Last-Minute Date, an Awakening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The “American Pie” series does, to its credit, allow some exceptions to this rule — Michelle’s happy, unapologetic lust in particular — and its nastiness has always been softened by Jim’s neurotic sweetness. Movie Review: ?American Reunion,? With Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy 2012-04-05T22:22:57Z What becomes extremely clear is that their endurance for creating music is plainly the product of a neurotic, serious, deathless motor. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z As Wallach toggled between the stage and notable supporting film roles, often as the heavy, Ms. Jackson remained a stalwart of the New York theater scene, excelling in comically neurotic and offbeat parts. Anne Jackson, theater stalwart who teamed onstage with husband Eli Wallach, dies at 90 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Many young male neurotics find out early that hard labor is salve for an overactive mind,” he writes. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z As it clips along, “In the Basement of the Ivory Tower” begins to read like the miserable, neurotic flip side of Norman Podhoretz’s book “Making It.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z He knew plenty of actors and, to his mind, they were habitually neurotic and unemployed. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Rather than, say, a neurotic hitman, he plays a gentle cellist whose diagnosis with Parkinson's disease causes schisms in a New York string quartet. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z Tim Burton’s gothic vision, alongside Michael Keaton’s neurotic interpretation of the character, may not have comprised a full-on deconstruction, but they both leaned heavily in that direction. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z She is, obviously, a radically different kind of person than Horowitz, who was a neurotic, hothouse flower of a pianist. Review: Pianist Yuja Wang sets off fireworks of her own at the Bowl 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Its glimpses into believable neurotic behavior among women are larkish and offhand—but blown up for the big screen, they’re not quite enough to fill it. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Will science ever reach that degree of accuracy—explaining just what it is that seems to make neurotic writers more likely to drink than use heroin? Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z Long, who wins a year's supply of potted shrimp, described the book as bizarre and "a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains". Review of "literary blah" memoir wins 2013 mauling award 2013-02-13T14:57:59Z Ms. Pines’s irrepressible sprite is an enchanting foil to Mr. Chao’s petulant and tearful neurotic. | 'Cheerful Insanity': ?Cheerful Insanity,? Here Arts Center - Review 2011-10-09T19:07:48Z Other critics found Merrill’s poetry brittle, neurotic and showy, Mozartian if not outright Martian. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Benjamin Albucker is, by his own description, an exacting, opinionated, slightly neurotic aesthete. This Store Still Needs a Name 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “Inside” is a tricky work that for all its boundary-crossing remains in the end a comedy in the spirit of neurotic, self-loathing stand-up. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z I just decided not to be such a weird neurotic idiot about it. After ‘Please Like Me,’ Josh Thomas’s New Show Is All Fiction 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Without a great deal of angst, he switched his career path from architecture to theater and became, according to one early admirer, “the least neurotic actor I’ve ever been around.” Review | What kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart friends for 50 years? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z Its run, through Dec. 20, sold out hours after it was announced in October, to the pleasant surprise of its neurotic creators. In ‘Oh, Hello,’ Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Have a Stage Senior Moment 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Has living in New York made you as neurotic as Woody Allen? The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Nick Jonas 2012-02-08T17:00:45Z I played a version of her, this neurotic but very well-intentioned person. Lake Bell on why New York and Nebraska need to laugh together over "Bless This Mess" 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In its neurotic, scattershot way, C.K.’s letter is powerful: It’s funny, deeply felt, and often persuasive. What Louis C.K.’s powerful Trump warning gets wrong 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z In truth, she was able to draw on exceptional intelligence and theatrical imagination in a wide variety of roles, not least the "neurotic modern heroines" she particularly relished. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z As the actor struggles with the role, we watch a battle for possession of his soul between Bernie and Frank's allegedly neurotic wife, Georgie. The Country Girl - review 2010-10-12T20:29:00Z She was also neurotic, and I knew I could play neurotic. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Phillips faithfully traces his movement from materialistic and positivist science and research into clinical medicine and neurology, and from there into the interpersonal study of hysteria and other neurotic disorders. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Thomas plays Nicholas, a narcissistic, neurotic 25-year-old who becomes the legal guardian of his two half sisters in Los Angeles, one of whom has high-functioning autism, when their father dies of cancer. After ‘Please Like Me,’ Josh Thomas’s New Show Is All Fiction 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Eisenberg, playing the gang’s token neurotic, kept convulsively squeezing his sides with his hands, like someone operating a bicycle pump. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z I'm like some neurotic woman running around my house, feeding the woman in the attic! Michael Fassbender, future superstar 2011-03-08T23:01:00Z But there was something about Trump’s use of the word “crazy” in such close proximity to “neurotic” — especially to describe a 49 year-old woman — that had a particularly familiar ring to it. Donald Trump’s sexist garbage continues: His latest name-calling rant shows exactly how little he thinks of women 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But I have, many times, asked myself why I keep doing this, because I’m very neurotic as a person and if I perform onstage I get very, very nervous. He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The older I get, the more neurotic I become about my work. A Word With: Isaac Mizrahi, Dramaturge of the Runway 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The only thing that ever seems to soothe these neurotics is the local supermarket, a gleaming, jumbo-sized temple of consumerism where everything is always in the right place. Venice: Noah Baumbach Finds the Music in ‘White Noise’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z He also survived what she called her “neurotic whines” about not being a writer by responding, “Shut up, please. You are a writer because you’re writing.” Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The pit where the features writers toiled was, in their minds, a place filled with children, pop culture addicts and neurotic artistes. Ben Bradlee: His sense of Style brought a new sensibility to features The second point is that the national chorus of indignation over the vain, clumsy lies that Williams told is, in fact, a direct measure of our own neurotic impulses. Our dangerous macho delusions: Brian Williams’ fraudulence — and our own 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The electorate could be forgiven for thinking that to be leftwing is to be depressed, neurotic and slightly mad. Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z Beth, more nose to the neurotic grindstone, opts for a high-powered career that entails more than a few lonely nights. Idina Menzel is radiant in the flawed 'If/Then' at the Pantages 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z This was the N.Y.C. of my own coming of age: a setting of gestating danger and unflinching tension, a time when the scope of neurotic magical thinking rivaled the enormity of actual impending disaster. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “March of the Falsettos” is a chamber drama with a neurotic Yiddish accent. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Thought of him then as a neurotic talented mess who made unique films that made you laugh and also think too. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Now that we’re all suspicious and paranoid and neurotic, at least about technology, “Black Mirror” is in flux. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z “I am what they call a Jew, which means that I am neurotic and have a habit of falling into tailspins of anxiety,” he said. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage Make Films for Paramount 2012-02-01T23:10:23Z Mr. Gad’s brilliant performance as himself, if he were the neurotic, self-obsessed, irritable second banana to Billy Crystal on a mediocre sketch-comedy show, made “The Comedians” much better than it deserved to be. Mike Hale on the Emmy Awards 2015: Predictions, Wishes and What-Ifs 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Tanna Frederick, as the sweet, neurotic, stagy daughter, is presented as the heroine. Movie Review: ‘Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,’ Directed by Henry Jaglom 2012-10-16T22:18:17Z But in his earliest films, like 1971's "Bananas" and 1977's "Annie Hall," the shaggy red hair combined with the eyeglasses, the demeanor and the delivery to create his trademark, neurotic persona. In honor of `Brave,' 5 great movie redheads 2012-06-21T16:31:09Z Nick and Honey, his giggly and neurotic wife, are simply no match for her. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z McCormack started his career playing classical and Shakespearean roles before becoming a household name in his Emmy-winning turn as neurotic Will Truman on "Will & Grace." "Will & Grace" star returns to TV in "Perception" 2012-07-05T20:19:14Z “Seeing Sandra’s character as someone who was just neurotic and driven by success, that looked fun and cool,” he says. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Maybe they were a tad too hyper-analytical or neurotic, but they were always highly verbal and, more often than not, destined for the kind of happy ending they deserved. Ephron blazed trail in male-dominated industry 2012-06-27T12:28:13Z He tweeted that Brzezinski was "off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess." Joe Scarborough sets his feud with Donald Trump to music 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z From the first scene it hits the ground running; buzzing with the same neurotic, self-conscious energy that is eroding the happiness of its lead characters. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z Laupheim’s inhabitants were in a time warp, their attitudes unchanged since the 1950s, when Germans observed a neurotic silence about what they had collectively done in the war. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z Mr. Bruce turns the Lone Ranger into just another neurotic performer, one ego trip away from losing his work. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “I was kicked out of school pretty regularly, because I was a cutup and kind of neurotic,” he told The Times in 1986, “so I left when I was 16.” Jeff Weiss, an Unconventional Theatrical Force, Dies at 82 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z So it was interesting when earlier this year Knightley admitted: “Up to 25, I was pretty neurotic.” Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z For Iranians — here, there, anywhere — it means just more living in the tangles of neurotic defense and justification. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z Whatever happened to the "new neurotic realism", an entirely made-up movement that never went anywhere? Charles Saatchi's art gift to the nation: as generous as it seems? 2010-07-01T16:26:00Z And while Patrick is a neurotic guy, he’d been on enough Tinder dates to have developed muscle memory for interacting with total strangers in a dating scenario. Date Lab: He was nervous that he would come off as ‘a weird guy’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Long fabled as a director, script doctor and dramatist, Ms. May first became famous as a master of improvisational comedy, instantly inventing fully detailed, piquantly neurotic characters who always leaned slightly off-kilter. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Instead of ditching the old neurotic patterns, literary theory repeated them ad nauseum. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z However complicated, or prickly, or neurotic - I am attracted to those who live life completely. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z Far from the hero the press portrays, Mr Wolf is a neurotic, womanising criminal, one of many realities Pip is forced to confront. Being Franzen’s friends 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Never mind that as a comic, Noah couldn’t be more different than Stewart – Stewart’s standup always had elements of frustration and neurotic energy, while Noah’s features more disbelief and earnest enthusiasm. Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She's a lovable mess of neurotic babble, intellectual uncertainty and unmanageable lies, and after 2007's 2 Days in Paris, it's great to see her again. 2 Days in New York ? review 2012-05-17T21:37:01Z “In her memoirs Doris Lessing often blames the undertow of history itself: if her feelings were neurotic, her thinking belonged to the ‘Zeitgeist.’ Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z She is also a sensitive plant, prone to neurotic ramblings and cursed by an inability to remember her lines, or even what she’s just said in real life. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z It is not a scripted series about neurotic single people, but a hybrid reality-comedy-variety-celebrity-panel show about marriage. Television: A Show About Something: Marriage 2010-02-27T06:47:00Z Like most of the narrators in this genre, Mr. Thirlwell’s is garrulous and neurotic. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Vulgar, vulnerable, wise and neurotic, Bethenny Frankel, Bravo's last-minute addition to its blockbuster series The Real Housewives of New York City, was a poor man's Housewife from the first. Bethenny Frankel: From 'Housewives' Star to Thriving Mogul 2011-05-09T10:00:00Z Christian Jessen But then, men are on course to become every bit as neurotic about their physiques as women. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z That’s not neurotic; it’s just a real thing that one has to deal with. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z In one sense, Simon's characters are simply archetypal, Upper East Side neurotics with grievances galore. Review: 'Prisoner's' downsized predicament seems all too familiar 2011-05-07T03:30:06Z After four seasons of his namesake IFC comedy, and copious soul-searching, Marc Maron wasn’t clamoring for another series, let alone a character so neurotic, so angry and compulsive, so exactly like him. Marc Maron on ‘GLOW,’ His Podcast and ‘Swords of Trust’ 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Rather, hers is a completely honest, often neurotic and searingly funny memoir of her pregnancy and childbirth. This Author Never Dreamed of Becoming a Mom. Until She Was One. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z We adore her because, in her uncalculated, uncensored “realness”, she seems to present the antithesis of the kind of actress we love to loathe - that cliche of the neurotic, vain, self-starving starlet. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Michael J. Weithorn, the creator, hadn’t thought that she came across as Jewish enough or neurotic enough. Debra Messing Can Age 90 Years Easily. It’s Baking That’s Hard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Nor is he the neurotic, alcoholic painter of “The Scream” of 1893 — a revolutionary artwork and by now, a fixture of popular culture. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z If I’m going to do a film about guys trying to pick up girls, like “Swingers,” I’m going to have them be neurotic and whining and nervous and scared. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z On “Mad Men,” he was Michael Ginsberg, the neurotic copy writer who cut off a tender part of his anatomy and presented it in a box to poor Peggy. Ben Feldman on his new play, nerdy man-boys and, yes, the 'Mad Men' nipple thing 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z As a self-described neurotic, he takes his nervousness as a given. On ‘The Good Place,’ Chidi Redefines the Black Nerd 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The Seventh is the least neurotic of Mahler's symphonies, and for those who see him primarily as psychodramatic, it is consequently his most problematic and perverse. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z I confused neurotic with deep, and complicated with interesting. Lord of the engagement rings 2013-02-20T01:00:00Z Mr. Goulian traces his vain, neurotic behavior to his early teens when, he says, his body began to betray him. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z I didn't want to claim an identity that wasn't mine," She added: "I don't think interrogating your own identity is neurotic. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z What a blessing, to find someone else in this numbing, neurotic, noisy city who makes you feel like you really lived here. The “Broad City” Finale: Abbi and Ilana’s Conscious Uncoupling 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z He swiftly resorts to the high-pitched sarcasm of the neurotic who has lost the right to believe in his own words. Before I Sleep; Eurydice; Macbeth 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z The central joke is that Norma is sane but crazy making, a hot neurotic mess who embarrasses the possibly insane but very well-behaved Norman. Television Review: ‘Those Who Kill’ Joins ‘Bates Hotel’ on Monday Nights 2014-03-02T23:20:45Z Artists in most disciplines are by habit neurotic, fretting either about their inadequacies or the unfairness of how they're being received. David Hare: my friendship with Patrick Caulfield 2013-05-25T08:02:04Z The studio, thankfully, took a pass and released the smart and shrewdly observed glimpse into the tangled lives of neurotic sophisticates who dwell in the strange and storied realm that is the Upper East Side. Top 10 Post-B&W Era B&W Movies 2011-11-29T14:37:43Z The occasion for his romantic obsession, which somehow doesn’t feel neurotic, is a pretty clear-cut case of two inward people playing emotional hide-and-seek out of habit. Movie Review: ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,’ by Terence Nance 2013-04-25T23:38:53Z Vogt layers his laughably neurotic narration over mile-a-minute transitions in an attempt to “find something funny in a mundane situation,” as he put it. 2013 winners of the 3-Minute Masterpiece film contest 2013-05-15T22:38:53Z She was the funniest and least neurotic of the four, and by far the most accomplished actor, sympathetically showing her character enduring the indignities of the menopause and overcoming cancer. Kim Cattrall: absolutely fabulous 2010-09-28T20:30:00Z The whimsy can become a overpowering, though the neurotic monologues have the sense of being written with fingernails bitten to the quick: "I am a little worn out, raddled, squashed, downtrodden, shot full of holes." The Walk and Other Stories by Robert Walser – review 2013-06-28T17:19:00Z “When somebody takes a work of that size, you can’t help but be pleased, it would be neurotic not to be,” Ms. Jonas says. The Ultimate Video Art Retreat 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z If you’re a normal, neurotic New Yorker, it’s probably the big inevitable: death. Review: In ‘The Undertaking,’ Considering the End With Some Laughter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She was starting to fall in love with him, she said; she especially loved how he was so open about his emotions, even though she thought he could be a bit neurotic at times. After a Last-Minute Date, an Awakening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z That may explain why both seemed so neurotic. Civility on the Way Out? Add Dogs to That List 2011-04-27T20:20:50Z The hype man and rapper are a hip-hop odd couple: GaTa, active and springy, wants to make everything happen by yesterday, while Burd, mild-mannered and neurotic, prefers a snail’s pace. Vulgar, awkward and heartfelt: How Lil Dicky made ‘Dave’ a pandemic-era hit 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z PG: People were so in love with your Talking Heads persona: the neurotic guy in the big white suit — — Table for Three: Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadway 2014-03-14T23:21:20Z When you add countertops the color of freshly fallen snow to this already neurotic equation, spot-cleaning takes on Sisyphean proportions. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott’s take on the character may be the most palpably neurotic, and least overtly heroic, I’ve seen. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z This book reminds you where his films “The Producers,” “Annie Hall” and “A Thousand Clowns” went right, mostly in that their neurotic creators had the good sense to hire Ralph Rosenbaum. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z Mr. Maron is more like a fellow neurotic who wants to compare notes in the waiting room. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z I’m just neurotic and all over the place, and kind of a comedy routine when I’m training. Dev Patel Calls Himself the Woody Allen of the Gym 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “It makes me anxious and neurotic and hell to live with,” Mr. Oldman has said of his acting process. Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z We are shown numerous skirmishes in what the author nicely calls "the average neurotic civil war", as well as deeper reflections on issues such as the unconscious, secrecy, or breakdowns. Non-fiction roundup - reviews 2012-10-05T21:55:05Z And he easily upset her, especially when he focused on her neurotic reactions to others. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z But her husband nailed it, keeping a formidable machine running smoothly and establishing a comic personality of his own: more bemused and less neurotic or angry than Stewart. Jon Stewart protégé John Oliver debuts ‘Last Week Tonight’ 2014-04-24T19:55:51Z The single-movement work is undoubtedly less long-winded than the orchestral piece heard in Prom 5, and contains more musical incident, especially of a neurotic, hyperactive kind. Prom 16: BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-07-28T11:48:13Z “Jennifer,” he added, “is one of the least neurotic people I know,” and that confidence, coupled with glimpses of vulnerability, is a trait she shares with her character. Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ 2012-11-09T22:03:41Z Mr. Connolly’s Jeremy doesn’t exactly transform before our eyes from neurotic milquetoast to gleaming king of the cafeteria. Review: In ‘Be More Chill,’ a Nerd Finds Popularity in a Sci-Fi Pill 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z This theatricality recalls David Bowie in his Thin White Duke phase: indeed, Spalding's spine-chilling version of Wild is the Wind – all creepy tango accordions and neurotic strings – owes more to Bowie's than to Nina Simone's. Esperanza Spalding ? review 2011-07-12T18:20:00Z With a narrative whipsawing among four neurotic protagonists, “Paradise, Nevada” charts a collision course through the gaming industry, grappling with Vegas’s objectifying entertainment complex and accelerating tech sphere. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “I thought I could control my chances of getting cancer by being neurotic and funny about it. But it doesn’t work,” Radner wrote. ‘She was our Michelle Obama’: how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z There is plenty of heartache, city politicking and humor — as well as moving passages from the point of view of a neurotic parrot.”. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z David stars in the production as a familiar version of his screen persona -- neurotic, un-politically correct and irritatingly self-absorbed. 'Fish in the Dark,' with Larry David, gets mixed reviews on Broadway 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Gergiev drives it hard, admirably sustaining an atmosphere of tremendous neurotic tension throughout. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor ? review 2011-08-11T20:30:01Z But, as this repeated film contends, it was all a front, as he never got over his lowly origins and Catholic religion, and was a total neurotic. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z The waiter is a bundle of nerves with a corkscrew in one pocket — a neurotic, you’d say, although he calls himself a “sensitive.” In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Only if your view of humanity is essentially pessimistic and tinged with neurotic narcissism. Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? 2011-07-26T10:56:29Z It's about a woman whose self-worth too often derived from her head-turning looks and the attentions of men — mostly fickle, unfaithful or cripplingly neurotic men. 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z In the opening scene, Louis — the neurotic gay Jew who eventually betrays Prior, his sick lover — has impassioned singing lines that are met by the rabbi’s curt, Yiddish-inflected spoken dialogue. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z This “riotously funny” debut novel by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter takes us inside an absurdly neurotic film critic’s hallucinogenic mind. New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The slowly unwinding prelude led to a first act of gathering momentum that culminated in a confrontation between the lovers that was as swift as it was neurotic. Prom 19: Tristan und Isolde – review 2013-07-28T16:59:00Z A quick glance at the librettos suggested a lineup of a political fanatic, a religious nut, two slightly neurotic beauties, a slutty broad and a taciturn man who practices Zen meditation. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z The mind of a neurotic artist is a terrifying place to be. ‘The Poltergeist’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Madman 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “I’m a neurotic Jew and I’m afraid of Lyme disease,” he says. Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things' 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z On the inside, Plath may have been a neurotic poet, but externally, she was a cultivated, poised Smithie, determined to rise professionally and to shine socially. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z Jonah's relationships with his peers, while often awkward and untenable, are never neurotic. Motherlode Blog: Sending a Child With Autism to Sleep-Away Camp 2012-08-24T17:01:54Z Vinyasa sessions, local pulled pork, neurotic comedians talking death and colonics. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, in All Its Multiplicity 2013-06-17T22:06:12Z Instead of neurotic, he is pathetic; the woman isn’t his romantic foil but his saving grace. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z In spirit, he's the same sceptical, neurotic character he's always been. Woody Allen's screen magic outshines shadows in his private life 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z One of the things I noticed about neurotic disorders is that, by definition, when someone has a neurotic disorder such as narcissistic disorder, they are by definition blind to it. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z The most enjoyable thing about the pilot is the performance of Mr. Cartwright, who does pretty much the same neurotic, hand-gesturing thing here that he did as the irritating intern Mr. Nigel-Murray on “Bones.” Television Review: Mind Over Crime for a Superpowered Team 2011-07-10T22:09:51Z Much is tranquil — memories in the back of a mind — but the mood is neurotic, as ideas tune in and out, blurring and fuzzing, clarifying with the force of a nightmare or a regret. Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z It combines TV’s particular efficiency in revealing the sights and sounds of a destination with the sense of what an amiable neurotic might experience there. “Travel Man,” Richard Ayoade’s Travel Show for People Who Hate Travel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s a blazingly, unforgivingly neurotic performance that exists at extremes of loud and soft, fast and slow. Review: Joshua Bell Plays Tchaikovsky at David Geffen Hall 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z I came to the jungle to stop being such a neurotic. Ayahuasca, meditation and activism: On cultivating the mindful politics of love 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s a hilarious and moving narrative that’s the perfect antidote to spending time with your own neurotic family. A reading list for your Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z However much I like to experiment, though, I am also a neurotic about tradition and authenticity. Smitten with summer fruit, a young man’s thoughts turn to . . . risotto? 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z A shy, neurotic blonde, Roberta conformed to the era’s archetypal feminine ideal. With ‘Shadow Stalker,’ Lynn Hershman Leeson Tackles Internet Surveillance 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Lenny Bernstein revealed Mahler, in all his neurotic and melodramatic variety, to be the ultimate composer of the Cold War, the roiling emotional volcano underneath the era’s crushing certainties. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z That may be because a majority of male stand-ups are neurotics nursing anxieties, while their female counterparts are just as likely to resemble the brash Ms. Silverman. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z They were not neurotic or conflicted or fraught with existential angst. What Kate Spade Stood For 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z She’s phlegmatic and neurotic, moral and morally dubious – passionately defending abortion, and stopping off to buy herself sweets before visiting her recently hospitalised boyfriend. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Allen presents his Sid as the one sane man who, despite—or rather, because of—his neurotic inhibitions and practical artistic ambitions and ideals, remains invulnerable to such flights of grandiose and vapid thinking. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The gregarious, neurotic Sasha has done the inviting, but the bulk of the housekeeping duties will fall on his not always forbearing wife, Masha. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Both halves of the couple are a little bit nerdy and a little bit neurotic, in ways that might be familiar to fans of “Insecure” or “Silicon Valley.” ‘The Lovebirds’ Review: It’s a Turkey 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z How do you explain to the uninitiated what the show is — a musical dramedy about a neurotic in a life change? “This is a dark, feminist, f*cked-up, romantic comedy”: Rachel Bloom celebrates her first Golden Globe nod for “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Marc Kudisch will play the part, a psychiatrist who, while hypnotizing a neurotic patient, falls in love with the jazz singer the patient was in another life. ArtsBeat: For 'Smash' Writers, 'On a Clear Day' Workshop Is Homework 2011-07-12T19:25:00Z The characters may seem variously neurotic, narcissistic and pompously intellectual as they struggle to connect, get ahead or just get by. Philharmonic Shines in Live Unison With Films as It Kicks Off 175th Season 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z |
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