You're not going to catch them with the latest neurotic novel, however well it's written."
Oh, he was kind to her! He was kinder and kinder and kinder. She told him everything--except about Martin. She told him all about her life at St. Dreot's and her father and Uncle Mathew, the aunts and the Chapel. He was frankly shocked by the Chapel. "That's not the way to get into heaven," he said. "We must be more patient than that.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
Of course, as you say, it's a neurotic temperament that's at the bottom of the trouble. When you've got that and a vigorous constitution working one against the other, the results are apt to be distinctly curious.英文原著 · 《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
Born of a delicate and overworked mother, and an impulsive, hard, imaginative father, who did not look with favor upon her coming into the world, Louise was from childhood a neurotic, one of the race of over-sensitive women that in later days in- dustrialism was to bring in such great numbers into the world.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》