As Letch's antisocial conduct increased, our invitations decreased and my heart was in my mouth whenever I played hostess at a fashionable `` screenland '' gathering.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

However, most individuals with conduct disorder or convictions did not have low activity of MAO-A ; maltreatment was found to have caused stronger predisposition for antisocial behavior than differences in MAO-A activity.

Though irascible and antisocial like his father, Grey was supported by a loving mother and found a father substitute.

This " tax stop " was criticised by the parties on the left wing of Danish politics, allegedly for being " antisocial " and " only for the rich.

As an orphan, Kasady was sent to the St. Estes Home for Boys, where his antisocial behavior made him the target of abuse from both the other orphans and the staff.

Before World War II, Flossenbürg was a men's camp primarily for " antisocial " or " criminal " prisoners.

He was handsome and charming and regarded as a daredevil, but in private life was rather shy, reserved and antisocial, with a slight speech impediment.

Another symptom of the political malaise during the 1970s was the appearance of various forms of antisocial behavior.

In one recent study of youth, a combination of antisocial traits and depression was found to be the best predictor of youth violence, whereas video game violence and television violence exposure were not predictive of these behaviors.

She was raised by her father, at least from her mid-teens, and has remained somewhat antisocial since then, stemming from her disastrous first date.

Originally, Mean was nothing like his deeply antisocial family, so Pa forced a Texas City surgeon to come out to their hideout in the Cursed Earth and surgically modify him.

" I was very attracted to the idea of someone who was by themselves, fairly antisocial, kind of a loner, someone who was noncollaborative.

While outwardly antisocial and unfriendly, she was inwardly shy and self conscious, and used a surly facade to keep people from getting close.

Watts was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

The Commission cited research purporting that the children of women denied an abortion “ turned out to have been registered more often with psychiatric services, engaged in more antisocial and criminal behavior, and have been more dependent on public assistance .” A 1966 study by Hans Forssman and Inga Thuwe was cited by the Rockefeller Commission and is probably the first serious empirical research on this topic.

Grow, Pratt was often “ dour and humorless ,” with an “ antisocial bent ," and he could be remarkably insensitive in his relationships with his wives.

* Crispin Glover as Willard Stiles: An antisocial worker for Martin-Stiles Manufacturing, a business that was originally started by his father but was " stolen " by Frank Martin.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Sometimes I guessed it was because the rain squall had changed direction.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

He knew now what he was up against.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

He knew she was not sulking, not even angry at him.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

Now he was going to show how much he knew.

We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!