Our lives are so rapid; the telephone, telegraph, and all the instantaneous agencies of our neurotically swift civilization have made us so quick in seeing through propositions; a hundred years of universal education have produced a mentality so electric in its rapidity, that effective oratory has been revolutionized within a decade.
"The Young Man and the World"
Albert J. Beveridge
A magnificent porter within the gate had just consented to get my luggage off the cab, and was in the act of beginning to do so, when a savagely-dressed, ugly and ageing woman, followed by a maid, rushed neurotically down the steps and called him away to hold a parcel.
"The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories"
Arnold Bennett
Those who are neurotically inclined are especially victims of the habit.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh