Both books treat men like case studies in dysfunction.
And were they too close to Smith's "conspiracies of merchants" with a vested interest in dysfunction?
I cannot quote the infield-fly rule, but I have a doctorate in dysfunction.
The government had long been sunk in dysfunction.
The movie that put itself at the vanguard of the New Greek Cinema: elegant, stylised, disturbing essays in dysfunction and tragedy.
To the contrary, it might even encourage you to stay mired in dysfunction.
After the Jets' season ended in dysfunction and despair, it was inevitable that major changes would sweep through the staff.
Now, Baldwin is in charge of restoring the image of a large volunteer-based organization mired in dysfunction, tainted by the Salt Lake City bidding scandal and criticized for its drug-testing programs.
Mental habits deeply formed -- the casual acceptance and even expectation of failure, the mocking of success, the pride in dysfunction -- can survive even with the new residents and buildings.
Last year, after the Jets' season ended in dysfunction and despair, Ryan said that he had lost the pulse of the locker room.
The author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers, Oates not only defies such stereotypes, she disdains them, as she tacitly acknowledged when she hurled Freud's ironic term of praise, "pathography," against biographies of writers that revel in dysfunction.
