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disturbed mind



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There’s a dreadful innocence to the tiny puppets that drive “Stopmotion,” an unusually resolute horror tale that places a spiraling animator at the mercy of her handmade figures and her own disturbed mind.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2024

Ms Beal's barrister, Andrew Wheeler KC, claimed "scribblings" found in a notebook on her arrest were clear evidence of a disturbed mind on the part of the Year 6 teacher.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2023

Instead it burrows deeper and deeper into Ragna’s sad past and disturbed mind, raising troubling questions about the human capacity for intimacy and making you wonder whether grief and loneliness might drive a person mad.

From New York Times Aug. 2, 2019

As Ms. McKeon exposes the deepening fissures of Catherine’s disturbed mind, she is admirably unafraid to push her characters through harrowing extremes of emotion.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2016

All John Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud indifference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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