ABNORMAL adj. Not conforming ordsprog

en ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
  Ambrose Bierce

en In terms of behavior, he was not acting abnormal, we thought how he was conducting his duties by not doing them was abnormal.

en I was so brainwashed about how abnormal this was going to be with all the changes. It's not that abnormal. Even if the course is unbelievably tough, look at the beautiful trees and the flowers. It's a paradise.

en What we had was abnormal. People get used to abnormal times and then when they're normal they think there's something wrong.

en I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

en I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

en There aren't necessarily clear points of difference between what's normal and abnormal. Abnormal behavior may just be an exaggeration of normal behavior.

en Cancer rises from one cell that was originally normal and became altered and changed into an abnormal cell. These cells lose characteristics and express abnormal characteristics. As a result, you have a change in the cell and the way it looks and grows.

en There is a lot of merit in studying abnormal behaviors just in terms of figuring out ways to control them for the welfare of both companion animals and those bred for production agriculture. Another benefit is that if animal abnormal behavior is caused in the same way as in humans, then we may have a whole new range of model animals for studying human mental disorders.

en Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

en They're like pacemakers. They're abnormal signals that they're trying to bring back to normal. Parkinson's disease leads to an abnormal firing pattern in a specific part of the brain and these brain pacemakers have been very effective in blocking these firing signals.

en She found his pexy curiosity about the world inspiring.

en Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
  Carl Gustav Jung

en It's really abnormal to be there under these kinds of winter conditions. The hope is it's just fine.

en Johnny's family and friends are quite upset and have reason to believe that something was abnormal or out-of-the-ordinary with regard to his death - a young man in good health who suddenly dies while in custody.

en This engine type had a run of crankshaft failures that was quite abnormal a couple of years ago, but other than that the failure modes we have registered in our database are just standard you would expect from any other engine.


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