It might be read as another sign of the phenomenon I am calling folie à deux or codependency of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
And they seem to share a disorder, known as folie à deux syndrome, and hence reinforce their irrational beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Cindy and Casey together make up what is termed a folie a deaux, or "madness of two," in which two people share and perpetuate a psychosis. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
Her relationship with her equally intense Danish director was a kind of folie a deux. From Wordnik.com. [Light & 'Dark'] Reference
"folie" in the design and make it more sculptural. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
"Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-15] Reference
And you respond by gleefully falling into the folie a deux. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Two Hundred Circling Years] Reference
The matter had become a folie a deux -- a madness made for two!. From Wordnik.com. [Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves] Reference
Sottise pommée, folie fieffée, to express nonsense and folly. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
And there is a term in there, is there not, called folie a deux. From Wordnik.com. [May 2007] Reference
TechCrunch en français » Après Twitter, la folie FriendFeed?. From Wordnik.com. [FriendFeed Raises $5 Million, Now Open to Everyone] Reference
Bon allez moi j'v bouquiner un peu beaucoup passionnement a la folie!!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Psychiatrists call this kind of mutual delusional behavior folie a deux. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Fire Gonzales] Reference
I think Canada suffers from a combination of lethargy and "folie de grandeur". From Wordnik.com. [After The CrisesThe Clean-Up] Reference
They are a hybrid of war games, educational simulation games, and folie a deux. From Wordnik.com. [The Sociology of RPGs: A Case Study in Cultural Growth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
I would now diagnose it as a case of folie a deux, which means "shared madness.". From Wordnik.com. [Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: Pathological Passengers] Reference
John Cooke and Bobby seemed perpetually locked in what resembled a folie ~ deux. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
The French call Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder folie de doute, the doubting disease. From Wordnik.com. [Therese Borchard: 9 Ways To Stop Obsessing] Reference
I'd call this folie a deux, but there's a lot more than two involved in this madness. From Wordnik.com. [RNC Chair: GOP's Victory In Georgia Senate Race Proves Obama Doesn't Have Mandate] Reference
Thus, Rachel was only the beginning of what evolved into an intricate Internet folie à six. From Wordnik.com. ["U Want Me 2 Kill Him?"] Reference
Hillary and Bill Clinton are suffering a folie à deux, and want us all to join in with them. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton Fund-Raiser Switches Sides - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
This is no more of a folie a deux than any real marriage, and I speak from painful experience. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
This is not to say that Mermaid is less than the work of a lyrical poet who loved women à la folie. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Made Kids Has Redeemed Himself] Reference
"We never have had an accident like this before, so hubris, the folie d'grandeur, sort of takes over.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Cavnar: A View From Inside BP: "Hubris" Before the Blowout] Reference
At least Boy George has not committed to this £5bn "folie de grandure" Why not leave fighting pirates to the Chinese?. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Just because an artist gets high on his own inflated oratory is no reason a curator has to participate in a folie à deux. From Wordnik.com. [His Pictures Belie Lofty Words] Reference
But we are bound to feel the artist himself was suffering from mental derangement (la plus insigne folie) in producing it. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference
Confronted with further silence he committed what was for those days “une folie,” and telephoned to the Grand Hotel at. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
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