sociopath
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The actor could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
It is, unfortunately, the heyday of the harmful sociopath and the abusive clinical narcissist.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
A simpler way of putting it is that Pelicot has an antisocial personality disorder - a term preferred by psychiatrists these days to words such as psychopath or sociopath.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
Jolie won a supporting Oscar in 2000 for her performance as a charismatic sociopath in “Girl, Interrupted,” capping an extraordinary awards run from …
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an out-cast.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
If “Joker: Folie à Deux” showed us anything, it’s that there can be blissful magic even when two sociopaths fall in love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
But sociopaths do exist—and in American society they become billionaires.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
It's just his special flourish to imagine the secret leaders are cat-loving, child-hating sociopaths.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 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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