neurosis

Example Sentences

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Films are a chance to work out these nagging, existential neuroses that live in the back of the mind, the type that overwhelm to the point of panic if thought about for too long.

From Salon

Until the incentives change or the party’s leaders discover the fortitude to defy them, we’re stuck in the world that Trump’s neuroses create for us.

From Washington Post

Now, she is in a new relationship, and her “neurosis is on ice.”

From New York Times

“We need to support the entire child, not just the tendus and pliés and the body and the feet. . . . Dancers have all these neuroses because of the traumatic things that have happened in their training.”

From Washington Post

And at the center of it all is Phoenix, needlessly shouldering a violent man’s neuroses at the tender age of 11.

From New York Times