neurasthenic

The next Christmas, it was the ex-wife's turn with the neurasthenic son.

Is it a neurasthenic act or a symbolic one?

"Yes, the most neurasthenic bride takes gum to the middle blood of a doctor's dream, right?"

The neurasthenic glamour girls who drift across the stage don't have much to say for themselves.

Suddenly the early part of the novel pales and begins to seem, in retrospect, ever so slightly neurasthenic.

With whom would I die, and in what role - psychopath, neurasthenic, absconding criminal?

Martin also made the imaginative leap into the life of a neurasthenic 28-year-old woman, quite a distance from his celebrity persona.

He had contributed to the events by which another boy was saved from the army of the bitter, the selfish, the neurasthenic and the unhappy.

He may have been born neurasthenic.

Some of this peculiar passion may just be a neurasthenic symptom of an overwrought imagination.

A sense of the neurasthenic mystery of early modernism - feverish and creepy - comes through.

In person and onstage, however, Morrissey is no wilting, neurasthenic violet.

Izzy, it seems, is the middle son of a Toronto real-estate developer and his neurasthenic wife.

A neurasthenic introvert with the eyes of a frightened deer, he nearly loses his mind during his imprisonment.

Madred had indeed changed since I last saw him; he was more neurasthenic, given to sudden emotional outbursts.

Puling neurasthenic, used it to justify his laudanum binges.

Neurasthenic types will head for La Chaise, a molded fiberglass chair designed in 1948.

"That skinny neurasthenic git you had in tow before-that wasn't him, was it?"

They quickly became neurasthenic.

"If I had not had music in my life," she explained, "I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright."

Their daughter, Emma (Hope Davis), is a wilting neurasthenic unable to remember anything much earlier than a few minutes ago.

The Neurasthenic of Nuremberg and his gangster stooges look - the hooligans they are."

His marriage to a neurasthenic, alcoholic WASP brings him mostly sorrow.

He softly negotiates a salary increase with the company's lead comic (Martin Savage), a neurasthenic junkie.