nervous instability

It is evident that you are a defective type, with nervous instability of the hundredth order.

I insist that the continued howling of a dog can be very serious to a man of such nervous instability.

Overall, Trotskyist commentators were more lenient, writing off Istrati's inconsistencies as a sign of his perennial nervous instability.

"People of nervous instability----" "But they may be people of great though irregular poietic gifts."

Bolan could see his hands clenching and unclenching at his sides, symptoms of that nervous instability Bolan had several times filed away mentally as being potentially useful.

Bizet's marriage was initially happy, but was affected by Geneviève's nervous instability (inherited from both her parents), her difficult relations with her mother and by Mme.

So that a slight tendency to nervous instability became stark lunacy, till a tendency to short life became certain death as an infant-and killed the tendency to short life along with the infant.

'The prevailing temperament of men of genius', Ellis said (and Bowerman agreed with him), 'is one of great nervous sensitivity and irritability ', a tendency to melancholy, and what he called a 'germinal nervous instability'.