An intriguing analogue to the feminist hysteric is the homosexual activist. . From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rep. Barney Frank distributes ‘Little Punk Staffer’ buttons to Capitol Hill aides.] Reference
The wandering phallus of the male hysteric is not pathological because it moves about. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference
The problem with the male hysteric is that his phallus wanders from the prescribed circuits of ownership and exchange. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference
Like a the typical sexist writer, he invoked the word "hysteric" to describe her. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, October 31, 2006] Reference
Or is that really any more helpful than those absurd late nineteenth-century attempts to classify Teresa of Avila as a 'hysteric'?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Links] Reference
A kind of hysteric passion now seized upon Santuchee. From Wordnik.com. [Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.] Reference
She's then sucked low down in the mix, chanting "hysteric" as the song spins head first into a bizarre Euro-pop finale. From Wordnik.com. [FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more] Reference
While Hitler's late Parkinson disease has attracted some attention, his former functional 'hysteric' blindness is almost unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks] Reference
And let's just accept all of the hysteric scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2009] Reference
She was what Susie called a number one first-class hysteric. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
Miss Corelli's force is hysteric, but it is sometimes very real. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
And Huldah broke into loud hysteric weeping, on the tide of which. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
How can any rational person respond rationally to an hysteric. dka. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It was an hour before his master could quiet his hysteric agitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
The notoriously hysteric opera lovers ofMilanstaged a boycott of her. From Wordnik.com. [Cherchez l'homme (Look for the Man)(Revision)] Reference
Then fell that long, hopeless silence, broken only by hysteric sobs from. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
I need someone to listen to my incoherent hysteric babbling and laughing. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Dont misunderstand me though, I am not an anti-gun hysteric by the remotest imagining. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Very, very quiet mood here as opposed to the somewhat hysteric mood that we had before. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Authorities Confirm One Dead, 14 Wounded in San Diego School Shooting - March 5, 2001] Reference
It is undeniable that Germany is now directed by hysteric stupidity wielding a bludgeon. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
This state is witnessed occasionally in hysteria, after violent fits of hysteric excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
I cannot think of him as ever becoming teachery, with a high-pitched voice and a hysteric manner. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
"Historic" replacing "hysteric" as the new buzzword in U.S. relations with the communist country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2002] Reference
(Noted Internet hysteric Jeffrey Wells dedicated an entire blogpost to this stipulation last week.). From Wordnik.com. [The Three Big Myths About Public Enemies: Don't Believe Everything You Read!] Reference
He spoke foully about her behind her back, implying that she was a bad mother and a jealous hysteric. From Wordnik.com. [Concealing and revealing] Reference
I had scarcely spoken when he dropped his face into both his hands and broke into an hysteric fit of crying. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Presently, however, she saw the maid, was agitated, had an hysteric fit, and passed into the sleep-waking state. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
As for me, 'she added, with a new outbreak of tears, which a laugh made half hysteric,' I shall stick like wax. '. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
But, 'with a half-hysteric courage,' suppose you had -- suppose I had -- suppose anybody had -- what would he do?. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
It's why right wing hysteric Charles Krauthammer wrote a Washington Post column essentially sputtering, "How dare he!?". From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: Hillary Clinton for VP] Reference
Bu thanks to this piece, I think that I now understand the term "health fascist" - although "health hysteric" might be more accurate. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
I saw cures which would be called extraordinary by such as ignore the curative power of faith in hysteric complaints and its derivatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
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