Sentence examples for personal tic from inspiring English sources

Writing under a nom de plume has become a personal tic, a tool that writers use to free up a different authorly persona within themselves.

Booth tells us that his Danish wife, during their courtship, took his chivalrous habit of walking on the outer edge of the sidewalk as a weird personal tic.

This last is a personal tic: I am interested in the assumptions we make and the truth behind them, and my own assumptions are as good a place to start as any.

EVEN to his most passionate admirers, the phenomenally gifted if wildly unconventional pianist Glenn Gould was a tangle of personal tics and complexes.

The characters are invented and distant from me, yet I've given big parts of myself to each of them in terms of characterisation, personal tics".

And if the film gets all that stuff right, it's also partly because the real-life reporters were involved from the start, reading scripts, helping the actors to understand their own personal tics and mannerisms.

How it works is the ghost writer will come round to your house with a tape recorder and ask you about your life, then staple all of these interviews together into one flowing bit of text, throwing in some of your personal tics every five lines or so.

Nicole Holofcener's smart, acidic comedy "Lovely and Amazing" zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy that illustrates exactly the way some people allow their personal insecurities and tics to poison their intimate relationships.

Diplomatic ritual is made to dance; political and personal anxieties take on a machinelike tic.

They will not seek a transparent or elevated epistemology, but instead will work to express a personal epistemology, deformed as it is by obsessions, tics, and emotions.

However, a patient with serous TIC with positive findings on peritoneal cytology, who also had a personal history of breast cancer, survived for >7 years despite two recurrences (Gocho et al, 2009).