Sentence examples for psychopath on from inspiring English sources

Javier Bardem, his menace half-masked by a comical haircut, plays a calm, unstoppable psychopath on the trail of a stolen two million dollars.

The tale of an opium-addicted 19th-century Irish surgeon who encounters a vicious psychopath on board an Arctic-bound whaling ship.

In "Dead Calm" (1989), Philip Noyce's brutally claustrophobic thriller, she was a young wife raped and menaced by a psychopath on board a drifting yacht.

In 2004, he directed his first film, "Six Shooter," a twenty-seven-minute short in which a bereaved man, played by Brendan Gleeson, encounters a young psychopath on a train, leading to a Wild West-style shoot-out.

A few feet away the actor Michael Emerson, who plays the oh-so-creepy psychopath on the ABC law drama "The Practice," chatted with friends while a few terrified diners gazed in his general direction.

"There appears to be a psychopath on the loose in the Boston area, and we will of course do everything in our power to assist law enforcement in apprehending the perpetrator as soon as possible," Mr. Buckmaster said.

Hitchcock's version of Strangers on a Train has little in common with its source material beyond a general misogyny and an opening proposition - two men, one a psychopath, one not, meet on a train and discuss their difficulties with their respective families.

"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.

Following Fallon's example, suppose we were to find that psychopaths, on average, show reduced activity in a particular brain region compared with a healthy control group.

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"The way I look at it is that it's just like when you get in a car and drive to the store — you assume that the other drivers on the road aren't psychopaths on a suicide mission," said Ms. Read, who was never told Ms. Seltzer's real name by the publisher or by Ms. Seltzer.