sociopath
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He takes no sensual pleasure in his destruction of Othello and Cassio, just the studied satisfaction of a sociopath watching with appreciation, as if from a distance, the malignant results of his handiwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As portrayed in “Death by Lightning,” Guiteau is a rotten-toothed, scheming, big-dreaming, delusional charlatan and possible sociopath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
"All but one of the characters is a sociopath, so the movie works on almost no levels. I love to put it on and yell at it."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
It is, unfortunately, the heyday of the harmful sociopath and the abusive clinical narcissist.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
Incidentally, Malcolm also thought that Matthew was a sociopath.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
“Even in the department they work in, you have to keep an eye over your shoulder. A sociopath does pretty well in this environment, but you don’t want too many sociopaths in the same department.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
Psychologists, too, make this mistake, believing that sociopaths are not strategic but, rather, mentally ill, because they were traumatized in childhood.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
Although sociopathy may not be as stigmatized as psychopathy, people are still trained to fear sociopaths as potential life-wreckers utterly without empathy.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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