Munchausen

How To Use Munchausen In A Sentence

• But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
• UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): The state says the woman once honored by Nancy Reagan at the White House for her work with children suffers from a bizarre mental disorder called Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome. CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007
• Police say Shakhov suffers from a rare psychological disorder called Munchausen by Proxy. CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007
• Nina's unstable, domineering mother Barbara Hershey, a former dancer who never made it beyond the corps, wavers between overbearing concern, vicarious arousal, and Münchausen syndrome by proxy; even she seems to want to get into the sick S&M game, demanding a little too lustfully to Nina, "Take off your shirt!" so that she can inspect her daughter for self-inflicted wounds. Rob Kirkpatrick: Burlesque and Black Swan: The Showgirls of Burlesque vs. the Showgirls of Ballet?
• Munchausen s syndrome is one of group of conditions known as factitious disorders. Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Munchausen's Syndrome: Stranger (and More Dangerous) Than Fiction
• For decades, physicians have known about so-called factitious disorder, better known in its severe form as Munchausen syndrome.
• The tales told in this book were so extravagant that the name Munchausen is often applied to boasters. The Elson Readers, Book 5
• Yeah, his more conventional work with 12 Monkeys & Brothers Grimm were good, but there's a depth to those wild trips in Munchausen, Brazil and Fear & Loathing where on first viewing I found myself dizzy and scared: Pretty much confused to hell over what I had just seen. Teaser Trailer: Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | /Film
• This is the office's equivalent to the psychological disorder known as Munchausen by proxy, in which someone induces or fabricates an illness in someone close to them in order to attract attention. Informed Reader
• … Some psychiatrists have started using the term Munchausen by Internet MBI to describe this behaviour. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed