Sentence examples for neurotic men from inspiring English sources
But he objected to the notion that neurotic men could not be great leaders.
Like William Boot in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, I'd pictured Fleet Street as a place where "neurotic men in shirtsleeves and eyeshades … rushed from telephone to tape machine, insulting and betraying each other in surroundings of unredeemed squalor".
Sometimes you long for the routine of a shared workplace, and when I file copy from my lonely eyrie, I occasionally entertain wistful thoughts of "neurotic men in shirt sleeves and eye-shades" as Evelyn Waugh put it in Scoop, rushing "from telephone to tape machines, insulting and betraying one another in surroundings of unredeemed squalor".
Frears told the Guardian: "Tony Blair is such a neurotic man that his actions are very dramatic.
"You're a very neurotic man, Mr. Felker," Wolf told him when they parted, "and someday the same thing is going to happen to you".
Well, it wouldn't be the first time Allen has cast a tall and supremely beautiful woman as the romantic lead against a short, neurotic man.
Yet the point of her book, announced in its title and tirelessly argued for seven hundred and thirty-one pages, is that he was a neurotic man, spagesdown the misdle.
A private, neurotic man, Elgar admitted he had "shewn" his soul in this and other works written at the time, including the Violin Concerto.
It's an odd love story, set in Biarritz, about the relationship between a mysteriously reserved anesthesiologist, played by Ms. Deneuve, and an impulsive, rather neurotic man played by Patrick Dewaere.
Roth used the brilliant conceit of Portnoy's Complaint – a monologue delivered by a neurotic man to his psychoanalyst – as a way of exposing the guilt-ridden mess the Jewish male found himself in during the 1960s.
"The Hangover," a big-budget comedy by the director of "Old School," in which Galifianakis gives a movie-stealing performance as a neurotic man-child set loose in Las Vegas, opens on Friday, and he has just finished work on "G-Force," a 3-D Jerry Bruckheimer project about a team of talking guinea pigs.
