How To Use Munchausen In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Police say Shakhov suffers from a rare psychological disorder called Munchausen by Proxy.
CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007
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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?
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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
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For decades, physicians have known about so-called factitious disorder, better known in its severe form as Munchausen syndrome.
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The tales told in this book were so extravagant that the name Munchausen is often applied to boasters.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
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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.
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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
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… Some psychiatrists have started using the term Munchausen by Internet MBI to describe this behaviour.
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No Baron Munchausen would have dared to imprison his saga within the limits of a tall tale.
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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy was Morgan Reid's problem-not some bizarre apneic and seizure disorder.
Cruel Deception
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* He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Feldman is a nationally known expert in the areas of factitious disorders, Munchausen by proxy and malingering, having written three books on these subjects.
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Another insinuated that on one had ever seen that many patients with Munchausen's syndrome let alone tested them.
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There are, of course extremes when it comes to lying and you may have heard of the terrible plight of people with Munchausen's Syndrome or factitious disorder where people lie compulsively about illnesses that they know they do not have.
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I know some of you have heard about, MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY its not a mental disorder,90\% of cases of Munchausen by Proxy, the mother is the abuser.
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He might have what Nathan Bennett, a professor at Georgia Tech's College of Management in Atlanta, calls Munchausen at work syndrome.
Informed Reader
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I say "veracious" advisedly, as oftentimes, after having seen something extra strong in the Ananias-Sapphira-Munchausen-Gulliver-de-Rougemont epistolary line from some gentleman in khaki to the old folks at home, in a London or provincial paper, I feel that I must give up letter writing altogether, as by now those at home must have discovered that such effusions are often seven-eighths lies, and the remaining one-eighth truth, simply because the scribe's powers of invention have failed him, owing to the great strain.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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It's called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, named after a German count who got off by inflicting pain on himself.
A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
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She was said to be suffering from factitious illness by proxy, a disorder previously referred to as Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
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Mongolian Taimen: They're the largest member of the salmonid family and to catch one, you need to be guided on camel back by a Sherpa or some such over Siberian peaks to rivers with names that sound like they're from the 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (gimme props for a severely off-the-wall movie reference!)
One Out of Five Ain't Bad
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And there ` s a syndrome called Munchausen by proxy, which women kill their children.
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