hysterical

The press’s hysterical reaction was perhaps inevitable given the convention of describing it as an “administration plan,” a “White House plan,” with the implied institutional imprimatur.

There really is—and again, I’m not hysterical on the subject, but I do believe that there is a pattern with Pat Buchanan of needling the Jews.

The election of Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim and millennial to lead New York City, notably drew bigoted and hysterical responses from many on the right.

The night her husband tried to knock down the door, her son was hysterical.

The initial headlines were so outrageous I assumed they represented a hysterical media overreaction to some mild remark.