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Sheer paranoia.
Possibly it was sheer paranoia, Stalin's suspicion that a man who knew writers abroad, had traveled and had an international audience presented a danger.
Unfortunately, this suspicion is not sheer paranoia: Hamas to this day is committed explicitly to Israel's annihilation, and many others who are less violent in their means, continue to think that Israel should be replaced by a binational state west of the Jordan River.
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The Bt rice project "is now to all intents and purposes dead and buried," he wrote, blaming an "anti-GM movement whose power and influence are more than matched by its fervour and sheer, undiluted paranoia".
Then there's the sheer psychological and emotional paranoia that lurches all over the opening two-part story.
Morrison "brilliantly communicated states of extreme emotion," he writes: "the rage of lust ('Light My Fire'), a gentler desire ('Touch Me'), paranoia, fear, sheer darkness".
The same day I swore (again) that I was gonna sober up and get some writing done, I got thrown out of my favorite dive for throwing a pint glass at a table of strangers I'd thought, out of sheer sleep-deprived, coke-induced paranoia, were gossiping about me.
The "adults" of the Democratic Party have been reduced to sheer panic, as Maureen Dowd says ("Pre-emptive Paranoia," column, Sept. 16), as their anointed candidates and campaign strategy have been shredded by the Republican attack machine.
A Question of Power (1973) is a frankly autobiographical account of disorientation and paranoia in which the heroine survives by sheer force of will.
This leads to sheer, seething resentment, and a narrow-mindedness bordering on Paranoia.
So he wasn't only contending with a "rational" paranoia; he was also ensnared in the ongoing anguish of comprehension and absorption, as the sheer size of the trauma inched into consciousness.
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