The F.B.I. agent expected that the Davidians, like a fragile cult, would turn paranoid and defensive in the presence of a threat.
She instantly turns paranoid and conspiratorial, clinging to her belief that not all of these folks are really sick, and if they are, they're being made worse.
For reasons that researchers are just beginning to understand, women are at a much greater risk than men of falling prey to an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system turns paranoid and begins to attack one or more of the body's organs.
If anybody could be a plant, nobody can truly be trusted, and friends become paranoid and turn on one another.
Strong, silent types have to take their chances in these talkative times, and Joe's manly reserve can easily be turned into paranoid shyness, and his High Style, or Bella Figura, into an obsession with his image.
Here, Hoover, a dedicated law-enforcement officer, is also struggling with, or against, his homosexual desires; Eastwood shows Hoover's desperate effort to foster a stereotypically macho image of his masculinity and to broadcast it and how Hoover's sense of secrecy, fear, anger, and constraint turned him paranoid and repressive.
To some passers-by, 14 years ago, it sounded as if the couple's grief had turned to paranoid fantasy.
It's all in the nature of the intermediary relationship, which can be fruitful for all, but which, when it breaks down, can turn venomous, paranoid and dangerous.
