When we first meet Dr. Johnson, he is in the midst of a breakdown.
It looks like a man not on the verge of, but in the midst of a breakdown.
I couldn't help overhearing a British man next to me in the midst of a breakdown.
She does not realize that she is in the midst of a breakdown - she thinks she had just come to the country for a rest.
Maybe one reason it didn't, when I first saw it in the mid-1990s in the midst of a breakdown that had stripped me of every vestige of self-worth, has to do with my deep love of the textures of Kieslowski's films, or of Zbigniew Preisner's soaring scores.
It's like an accelerated, pre-teen version of Britney's Piece of Me, a single and video released in the midst of her breakdown which detailed exactly what it's like to be a pop star in an age of ridiculous scrutiny and 24-hour paparazzi surveillance.
Now, a consensus is forming that a noisy, brightly lit police custody suite, with drunken hooligans and gangsters sometimes passing through, is simply not an appropriate place for someone in the midst of a breakdown.
Playing a woman in the midst of a breakdown was no small feat for Blanchette -- not just emotionally, but physically as well.
I have no idea what I'm doing," cries 20-something Kelsey (Hilary Duff) in the midst of a breakdown during the second season of TV Land's surprise hit "Younger". .
After five days of lying still on my bed, listening to Cat Power's Moon Pix over and over again (I'd read that she wrote it in the midst of a breakdown, so somehow it felt apt) as a summer breeze tapped my neighbour's eucalyptus tree branches against my window, I became increasingly worried about what to tell my lecturers and parents.
