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- adverb In a
neurotic manner.
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- adverb in a neurotic manner
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Examples
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Both works receive finely detailed, crisp performances from the BBC Philharmonic, but nevertheless it's Noseda's superb account of Rachmaninov's Third Symphony that takes pride of place here – wonderfully restrained, almost haunted in its opening movement; quietly nostalgic in its central Adagio; and almost neurotically hyperactive in its finale.
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The writing (and by that I suppose I mean the voice) is so dangerously rich and neurotically dark, I think it is one of the most daring of all works of literature and I love it for what it attempts and succeeds.
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As someone who spends far too much time with my face buried in a laptop, or neurotically staring at my Blackberry to see if the red light flashes, the simple discipline of forcing myself to switch off for 25 hours was a revelation.
Tanya Schevitz: Gravitating to an Unplugged Life Tanya Schevitz 2010
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It's summer in L.A. and we're itching to channel the boho spirit as much as the next neurotically SPF-covered girl.
Style Section L.A.: Side Swiped: Why You'll Be Abandoning Your Middle Part This Summer Style Section L.A. 2011
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It's summer in L.A. and we're itching to channel the boho spirit as much as the next neurotically SPF-covered girl.
Style Section L.A.: Side Swiped: Why You'll Be Abandoning Your Middle Part This Summer Style Section L.A. 2011
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By 1991 the party had re-emerged as Partito Democratico di Sinistra, then the "Left Democrats" and then again, as if to bury neurotically all traces of its past, as Partito Democratico.
The Tailor of Ulm: A Possible History of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Lucio Magri – review 2012
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Call us helicopter parents, call us neurotically attached, but those of us who survived the wreckage of split families were determined never to inflict such wounds on our children.
The Divorce Generation Susan Gregory Thomas 2011
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Hence, at this time I do not intend to proceed further, unless Adrian continues to undermine his own apology publicly -- which, it must be said, he appears almost neurotically inclined to do.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Paradoxical then that, on one hand, The R&A Golf Club neurotically strives to keep women from tainting its doorstep, while on the other hand its brother institution, the R&A Golf Development arm, is opening doors for women golfers.
The Queens of Clubs Linda Jackson 2011
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It's summer in L.A. and we're itching to channel the boho spirit as much as the next neurotically SPF-covered girl.
Style Section L.A.: Side Swiped: Why You'll Be Abandoning Your Middle Part This Summer Style Section L.A. 2011
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