His voice is often pitched as a fading, neurasthenic mewl, and he shifts between depressive paralysis and frenetic tantrums.
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The narrator appears to be only a step from a nervous breakdown, but the neurasthenic sensitivity is gestural, unearned, a bit melodramatic.
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" Others, like "Henrietta House," resemble edgy spells and evoke Gertrude Stein in their erudite nonsense: "Henrietta, so pathetic, / Palpitating neurasthenic, / Barcelona antiseptic.
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Prince Yussuf Izzettin was thought to be neurasthenic, says the ''Figaro,'' but, though the message alleges suicide, his death gives some ground for speculation.
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All three women married for money and status, and lived unhappily with neurasthenic mothers, chilly in-laws, unfaithful husbands, disappointing children, loneliness, depression and ennui.
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He took the title role in a 2014 biopic of Yves Saint Laurent, but his neurasthenic air is best suited to the dandyish dawn of the past century.
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Personally, I can't even think of forty-seven botanicals, and, unless the company is selling directly to neurasthenic beagles, I can't conceive of any customer who will sniff out every aroma.
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One such is Jessie Sloane, the neurasthenic heroine of Mary Kubica's WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT (Park Row, $26.99), who hasn't been able to sleep for eight days — or is it nine?
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In general, the Jewish men of Hungary in the early 20th century were depicted as feminine and neurasthenic, while the Jewish women, especially if they were well educated, somehow escaped this fate, often marrying members of Budapest's Christian ruling class.
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Such intricate, gothic scenes were supposed to unfurl from the pen of a wan, wraithlike neurasthenic holed up in a garret — not some towering Midwesterner partial to floor-length fur coats and busy days attending the New York City Ballet.
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Season 3 initially allows a sunbeam into the life of ashen, tormented Vanessa Ives (Eva Green, whose neurasthenic beauty and piercing stare suggest either an opium eater or Susan Sontag, or both): She's in therapy with a so-called alienist (Patti LuPone, who played a different role, the Cut-Wife, in season 2).
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The sons of the family, as well as numerous male cousins, accepted and befriended him, he a wan, neurasthenic, troubled artist and they strapping good-looking rural men of liberal passions: In that wild remote spot, their home was as warm and physical as an animal's den, the very opposite of Gertrude Stein's sofa in Paris—where Marsden Hartley had on occasion found himself sitting—and there was some suggestion that this warm animal playfulness had even extended itself into Marsden Hartley's sexual loneliness (they were as likely, he once recalled, to have joyfully had intercourse with a woman, or a horse) and alleviated it.
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The neurasthenic type is a faultfinder, irritable and also intolerable.
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Baron Hans von Wangenheim Hans, Baron von Wangenheim (1859 – October 26, 1915) was a diplomat for Imperial Germany. He died of a stroke, diagnosed most likely as 'neurasthenic' tendencies.
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Calcedonio Reina (Catania, Sicily February 4, 1842 – Catania, November 10, 1911) was an Italian painter and poet. He is described as having a melancholic and neurasthenic temperament in life and art.
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During his time in New York Picabia participated in riotous orgies of sex and drugs, while attempting to iron out his (anti-)artistic style.Jones, Amelia. 2004. Irrational modernism: a neurasthenic history of New York Dada. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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The French society of the Third Republic is presented as a completely mad world in the novel, where everything is out of justice, order and reason. English translation by Justin Vicari : 21 Days of a Neurasthenic, Columbia University Press, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.
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Accustomed to a warmer Corsican climate, the morale of the men only decreased. The conditions in the lighthouse, the humidity, howling winds, and the enormous size of waves and spray—sometimes higher than the tower—were a nightmare for both. They quickly became neurasthenic. Despite this, the light shone every night.
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Patients received regular treatment including doses of bromide of strontium and a specially regulated diet. By the end of the year 17 of the 315 patients had died. In 1918 the hospital became the Ewell War Hospital for treating neurasthenic ex-servicemen returning from the First World War, administered by the Ministry of Pensions.
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Yekaterina Andreyeva, Balmont's second wife. In 1889, ignoring his mother's warnings, Balmont married Larisa Mikhaylovna Garelina, a daughter of Shuya-based factory-owner, described as a neurasthenic who "gave [the poet] the love of a truly demonic nature". This led first to Balmont's ties with his family being severed,Balmont, K.D. Autobiographical prose. Volga magazine.
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The college was built between 1912 and 1914, but its opening was delayed by the start of the First World War. During the war it served as a training centre for Land Girls, and in 1918 and 1919 it operated as a military neurasthenic hospital for the treatment of soldiers suffering from shell shock.Seale- Haynians website The first students arrived in 1920.
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However, the kinship is not supported by official documents. Nurmi enjoyed the Finnish sports massage and sauna-bathing traditions, crediting the Finnish sauna for his performances during the Paris heat wave in 1924. He had a versatile diet, although he had practiced vegetarianism between the ages of 15 and 21. Nurmi, who identified as neurasthenic, was known to be "taciturn", "stony-faced" and "stubborn".
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The Baroness was one of the "characters, one of the terrors of the district," wrote her first biographer Djuna Barnes, whose book remained unfinished.Gammel, Baroness Elsa, p. 17. In Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada, Amelia Jones provides a revisionist history of New York Dada, expressed through the life and works of The Baroness. The 2002 biography, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, by Irene Gammel, makes a case for the Baroness's artistic brilliance and avant-garde spirit.
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At the Academy her "sensitive, neurasthenic acting had been seen and admired by George Bernard Shaw". By 1920 Audrey Carten was trying to make a name as actress in Shakespearean's productions. In A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by J.B. Fagan, J.C. Trewin points out Carten in 1920 (and later Edith Evans in 1924) was the first to play the role of Helena as a comic rather than purely romantic role. In 1922 she is the heroine in Bulldog Drummond, produced, directed and performed by Gerald du Maurier.
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Described by historian Lucian Nastasă as a withdrawn, "neurasthenic" and "very impractical" person,Nastasă (2010), p. 296 Zarifopol was financially ruined in the monetary devaluation that took place after the war. He supported himself by turning to regular journalism, but still had trouble making ends meet (though he did not admit to it), and made efforts to keep away from the centers of culture, living mostly in provincial Sinaia. Zarifopol, sometimes using the pen names PZ and Anton Gherman,Mihail Straje, Dicționar de pseudonime, anonime, anagrame, astronime, criptonime ale scriitorilor și publiciștilor români, p. 805.
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Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy (CSE) is a condition induced by long- term exposure to organic solvents, often but not always in the workplace, that lead to a wide variety of persisting sensorimotor polyneuropathies and neurobehavioral deficits even after solvent exposure has been removed. This syndrome can also be referred to as "psycho-organic syndrome", "organic solvent syndrome", "chronic painter's syndrome", "occupational solvent encephalopathy", "solvent intoxication", "toxic solvent syndrome", "painters disease", "psycho-organic syndrome", "chronic toxic encephalopathy", and "neurasthenic syndrome". The multiple names of solvent-induced syndromes combined with inconsistency in research methods makes referencing this disease difficult and its catalog of symptoms vague.
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In 1994, Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the blockbuster Junior. Although the male pregnancy storyline was poorly received by most critics and flopped at the box office, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the lead trio. She returned to independent cinema for a lead role in Carrington, which studied the platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey (played by Jonathan Pryce). Roger Ebert remarked that Thompson had "developed a specialty in unrequited love", and the TV Guide Film & Video Companion commented that her "neurasthenic mannerisms, which usually drive us batty, are appropriate here".
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Mirbeau then underwent a grave existential and literary crisis, yet during this time, he still published in serial form a pre-existentialist novel about the artist's fate, Dans le ciel (In the Sky), introducing the figure of a painter (Lucien), directly modeled on Van Gogh. In the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair — which exacerbated Mirbeau's pessimism« Pessimisme », in Dictionnaire Octave Mirbeau. — he published two novels judged to be scandalous by self-styled paragons of virtue: Le Jardin des supplices (Torture Garden (1899) and Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) (1900), then Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique (The twenty one days of a neurasthenic person) (1901). In the process of writing these works, Mirbeau unsettled traditional novelistic conventions, exercising collage techniques,Cf. « Collage », in Dictionnaire Octave Mirbeau.
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While he had written some short stories during the period in which he was trying to find success as a poet, his career did not take shape until the publication of His Monkey Wife in 1930. It enjoyed a certain small popularity and critical approval that helped to sell his short stories. Biographer Richardson explained the literary context for the book: As a private joke, Collier wrote a decidedly cool four-page review of His Monkey Wife, describing it as an attempt "to combine the qualities of the thriller with those of what might be called the decorative novel," and concluding with the following appraisal of the talents of its author: "From the classical standpoint his consciousness is too crammed for harmony, too neurasthenic for proportion, and his humor is too hysterical, too greedy, and too crude."Paul Theroux, Sunrise with Seamonsters.
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The Pierrot bequeathed to the twentieth century had acquired a rich and wide range of personae. He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming (Gautier); the prankish but innocent waif (Banville, Verlaine, Willette); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death (Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul (Richepin, Beardsley); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart,This is the case in many works by minor writers of the fin-de-siècle—e.g., Léo Rouanet, The Belly and Heart of Pierrot (1888), summarized in Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 299–300. or murders her in frustration (Margueritte); the cynical and misogynistic dandy, sometimes dressed in black (Huysmans/Hennique, Laforgue); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art (Giraud, Willette, Ensor); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption (Richepin, Wedekind); the madcap master of chaos (the Hanlon-Lees); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun (the English pier Pierrots)—and various combinations of these.
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