Sentence examples for psychopath for from inspiring English sources

On the trail of a possible serial killer, Dr. Kay Scarpetta turns to a jailed psychopath for advice.

Norman Mailer inverted this notion in "The White Negro," admiring the hipster as a "philosophical psychopath" for having the courage of nonconformity.

"You can share your deepest hopes and fears with a heavily armed psychopath for hours on end, " she says, complaining angrily that he nevertheless won't open up to her.

This is a movie, you know?" At first I thought she might be a psychopath for not being moved, but then she turned out to be one of the smartest, more well-adjusted people I know.

Bickle is a psychopath for all of us, because he believes so hard.

As you abandon your child on that college campus, you envision the worst: a psychopath for a roommate, listless professors, alcohol poisoning, and fraternity hazing.

Mick Philpott, the man who burnt his children to death "for a new and bigger council house", was the poster-psychopath for this narrative; Monroe and Reilly are his nemeses.

Still, his winning style pervades most of "The Psychopath Test," as when Mr. Ronson wonders whether he will have psychopaths for readers.

Psychopaths, for example, seem to have an impaired ability to empathize, but not an impaired ability to understand other people's intentions and goals, a pattern reflected in the oft-reported Machiavellian nature of psychopaths (Blair, 2003, 2005).

It centres on two friends (Frank Lovejoy and Edmond O'Brien) who, while on a fishing trip, pick up a stranded man (William Talman) only to discover that he is a psychopath wanted for murder.

"Basically, you have a psychopath running for president.