Over the long drive, Bob manipulates Vanessa into confessing to him the details of her painfully dysfunctional life, including a prostitute mother and a sexually abusive stepfather.

These recent social offenders don't even address the number of Madness alumni who have gone on to lead dysfunctional lives.

Why do people in public life have no concept of what it is like to live a dysfunctional life in poverty and inequality?

Neel "led the kind of dishevelled life that was thought of, in praise or in blame, as bohemian, before it got stamped dysfunctional," Schjeldahl writes.

It is a satire about a jaded Nobel-winning physicist whose dysfunctional personal life and cynical ambition see him pursuing a solar-energy based solution for climate change.

"It was just your regular American dysfunctional life," said Mr. Brooks.

This film focuses on the dysfunctional life of three sisters.

IDS believes that dysfunctional lives are the root cause of poverty, while the centre Left thinks, correctly, that the reverse is true.

The family's dysfunctional life had been memorialized in daughter Brooke's memoir, Haywire.