Hysterical

Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity. ❋ Various (N/A)

The mental benefits to children of all ages through the contact with animals by far exceed the dangers of what I call a hysterical reaction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I find the term hysterical, and personally, I don’t think we use it nearly enough here in the colonies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Only slightly less hysterical is his description of why the city has an urban renewal agency: ❋ Unknown (2009)

You should have inserted a pause right there to give the audience time to collapse in hysterical laughter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Following thanks to Janet Reid, just collapsed in hysterical laughter from the start. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was at the airport, in hysterical tears, heartbroken, knowing that she was just too sick to make it through my 20 hour plane ride. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Enjoy the crowned one†™ s antics in hysterical tales as he gets mixed up with weird science experiments, football foul-ups, and his cousin, Souphead! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stranger still, the root of hysterical is the same as the root of hysterectomy: huster, from the Greek, for womb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the anchor was hanging up on her, Brenda was in hysterical tears and pleading for her life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, rainofmadness. com/has been updated with a variety of other clips that are just plain hysterical, including those for two of the film's best characters (second to Downey Jr., of course): pyrotechnician Cody Underwood (Danny McBride) and rising rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon Jackson). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Discussion of books and writing has been superseded by gossip about writers (Elias Canetti/Iris Murdoch) and even about critics (Naomi Wolf/Harold Bloom), the most talked-about critic has become so because he indulges in hysterical and ad hominem attacks on writers who don't write books like his own (Dale Peck), not a single book nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of "criticism" is actually a work of literary criticism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Add to this - minor spoiler coming up - the fact that his daughter Athena keeps popping up on Whatever in hysterical YouTube shorts like this, where she's seen by the myriad of John's readers, and it's hard not to see her as sharing certain similarities with the character of Zoe - minor spoiler now - who shares her life experiences with an entire devoted alien race. ❋ Lou Anders (2007)

"People are in hysterical situations," ambulance driver Hussein Mohamed Bressem explains, "so everyone wants to save his loved one." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Stephen J. Raderstorf was the kind of guy who could make his relatives fall to the ground in hysterical laughter with his silly faces and multiple accents. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Colbert†™ s whole show makes fun of Fox and there methods and it†™ s friggin hysterical!!! ❋ Unknown (2006)

When I got to her death the whole group burst out in hysterical laughter. ❋ Roger Sutton (2006)

The word hysterical has been used to describe the response to terror attacks by the governments of the United States, Britain, and now Australia. ❋ Coetzee, J.M. (2007)