That episode brought out a paranoid streak that has flourished since in Chief Buthelezi.

The lapse in hygiene is accompanied by a noticeable paranoid streak.

Suggesting that "a paranoid streak" ran through the membership, Mr. Galassi said the board had no plans to drastically curtail the academy's programs.

But his paranoid streak is no more like what Rambeau succumbed to than chickenpox is like mumps.

But there is a world of difference between having a paranoid streak and harboring a delusion.

The paranoid streak in American politics is not solely owned by fringe paramilitary organizations and demagogues.

The paranoid streak showed up just now in the hasty abandonment of plans to have Mikhail Gorbachev address a joint meeting of Congress.

Bionic Jive's rap-rock, with a band behind a rapper and a singer, held a paranoid streak within its conventional stomp, invoking "a government conspiracy to hurt me."

The chef, an out-of-control control freak with a paranoid streak a mile wide, calls Sam constantly.

It is also often charged that Tymoshenko evinces a certain paranoid streak.