Sentence examples for less psychopathic from inspiring English sources

Scrawny and gaunt, he is as desperate as he is charming, a hero by default, simply for being less gormless than Gavin Jon Wright's hilarious Spud, less psychopathic than Owen Whitelaw's hate-filled Begbie and less naive than Angus Miller's vulnerable Tommy.

They will not go quietly in the good night, and four years hence they will nominate a much less narcissistic and psychopathic, more attractive and articulate ethno-nationalist who will appeal to far more people after twelve years of Democratic leadership.

Less sympathetic are the psychopathic duo Marcus and Ciro, who model themselves on Tony Montana, the glamorous Cuban gangster played by Al Pacino in Brian De Palma's Scarface (a movie that also provides role models for the Parisian delinquents in Bertrand Tavernier's L'Appât).

In their book Snakes in Suits, Paul Babiak and Robert Hare point out that as the old corporate bureaucracies have been replaced by flexible, ever-changing structures, and as team players are deemed less valuable than competitive risk-takers, psychopathic traits are more likely to be selected and rewarded.

Ensuing negotiations make Alek sympathetic to Margaret's impossible position, but Alek's psychopathic boss (Raymond Barry) is less understanding.

Our main hypothesis was that the psychopathic group would show less vicarious activity than controls for at least one stimulus condition.

Hopefully not into the less-than-cuddly arms of a psychopathic teddy bear, but I can't promise anything.

The opposite effect is hypothesized to occur in psychopathic individuals, who are suggested to be less prone to distractibility than are nonpsychopaths (Hiatt & Newman, 2006).

The fact that psychopathic individuals often display low motivation for change and comply less with therapy than other criminals (Salekin et al., 2010) will certainly represent an unfortunate challenge in such efforts.

Many psychopaths are narcissistic, but not many narcissists are psychopathic.

Less predictable is Christian Petzold's Yella, whose eponymous heroine escapes from her stultifying life and psychopathic ex-husband in a moribund town on the Polish border and finds a dangerous new life as an accountant in Hanover.