Sentence examples for mere paranoia from inspiring English sources
Crimes meriting detention can include carrying too much petrol; it could be used for bomb-making.The nervousness of the man in the clothes shop is not mere paranoia.
More people on the left understand now that the right wing's fears are not mere paranoia, that they address a real and crucial threat.
Like many of those men, Roiphe would like to short-circuit this larger discussion, as if everything that doesn't meet the legal definition of crime were trivial, and any objection to it mere paranoia.
Mourinho's assertion that Real's enemy are the puppet masters of Uefa's match officiating system is unlikely to be dismissed as mere paranoia in the stands of Stamford Bridge, where Barcelona advanced past Chelsea in a Champions League semi-final that remains memorable for a disastrous performance with cards and whistle by Tom Henning Ovrebo, the Norwegian referee.
Yet Morales' fears, it turns out, weren't rooted in mere paranoia.
If over the past decade his films have increasingly come to resemble sophisticated versions of new world order conspiracy theories, then Curtis is too subtle and gifted to be dismissed as a mere peddler of paranoia.
(A computer-keystroke-monitoring device, used for espionage in another current thriller, "Paranoia," amounts to mere child's play here).
Bachmann doesn't make clear what evidence connects these latter groups to "infiltration" -- their mere existence seems sufficient to warrant her paranoia.
Also, speed gave me the virtue of what in any other setting would have been paranoia but compared with Don's habitual state was mere alertness.
