One legacy of this popular culture for me and many friends has been an almost pathological aversion to seeming too earnest that lingered long after we had graduated from high school, well into adulthood.
Gleeson is modest to an almost pathological degree.
Which is fine; every politician you ever loved — whether your tastes run from Franklin Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama — was possessed of an almost pathological ambition.
Otto Preminger does an acting turn as Von Scherbach, Peter Graves is the security officer with a secret, Robert Strauss is Animal (who has an almost pathological crush on Betty Grable), and Harvey Lembeck is his fun-loving pal Harry (who looks lovely in a makeshift wig) - Sunday at 5 30 p.m. on AMC.
This was coupled with an almost pathological suspicion of even his most able and faithful servants.
All the vigilante attacks appear to have been fueled by an almost pathological hatred for the U.S. government -- the same open hatred that right-wing bloggers, AM talk radio hosts, and Fox News' lineup of anti-government prophets have been frantically fueling for the last year, pushing doomsday warnings of America's democratic demise under President Obama.
Like the Finns, Estonians can be dour and tend toward an almost pathological industriousness (when they aren't singing, that is: There are 133,000 Estonian folk songs, one of the largest numbers in the world).
Each had similar complaints: he was controlling, physically abusive and an almost pathological liar.
Instead emotions are what fuel Drake, 23, who has an almost pathological gift for connection.
Indeed, the 2016 election may very well go down in the DMs of history as one in which authenticity won out over experience and resources in the minds of American voters, a trend borne out by the surprising success of Sanders and Donald Trump two candidates who, despite their ideological differences, share an almost pathological inability to be anything other than themselves.
