The theories basically argue that the neurasthenic is highly sensitive, cultured, and learned: an overall superior being.

With its sallow-faced subject reclining among monstrous sunflowers and African sculptures, it’s a radically neurasthenic, underground image of an odalisque.

The catwalkers — who all week have been the very picture of neurasthenic hauteur — dove for the soccer balls with whoops of unedited abandon.