frankensteinian doctor

plural frankensteinian doctors

1. Alternative letter-case form of Frankensteinian doctor.

plural Frankensteinian doctors

1. figurativelyuncommonSynonym of mad scientist.

   THE STEEL EXAMINING TABLE By Patty Martori at Pat Hearn Gallery is clinical and severe, except for the fringe of dark human hair that circles its edge. An experiment gone haywire? A Frankensteinian doctor's office?

   1989, Kay Larson, “The Flux Stops Here”, in New York Magazine, volume 22, number 9, page 150

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   A Frankensteinian doctor (played by Graham Crowden, building on a character seen in O Lucky Man) is busy creating a new transplanted creature and crying, "Only a new human being of pure brain, freed from the shackles of the body, the fetters of feeling, can lead man forward into the new era."

   1982, Michael Billington, “Lindsay Anderson Brews Some Chaos”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 19

   Frankensteinian doctor and contemporary artist figure who wants to create a man who will be equal without being a threat), the bewilderment of Katherine/the Man and her/his refusal to embrace this particular "brave new world."

   1993, University of Western Ontario, Department of English (contributor), Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, numbers 9-10, page 33

   So what is psychiatry's real purpose? Are psychiatrists by nature evil frankensteinian doctors? No. But their medical degree has partiallly blinded them to other, simpler explanations, such as social causes and constructs of mental illness and mental disorders, and in alternative ways of dealing with them.

   1998 February 19, Magnulus, “Why Mental Illness is a Myth. A Primer.”, in alt.support.survivors.prozac (Usenet)

   Instead of using the slow process of allowing a cloned creature to be born and grow naturally, Cormac and Marianne Wibberley's sceenplay has billionaire industrialist Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) knocking out human clones from pre-sculptured models so that his Frankensteinian doctor, Graham Weir (Robert Duvall), can simply implant the DNA into the models, allowing them to spring quickly to mature life.

   2000 November 10, Harvey S. Karten, “Review: The 6th Day (2000)”, in rec.arts.movies.reviews (Usenet)

   The college is situated in a castle where, legend has it, vampire Radu — Rusty's look-alike — terrorized villagers alongside bloodsucking minions and a sorceress, whose spirit is accidentally released to possess student Lynne (Jennifer Lyons) just as the Count & Co. return home. Faculty includes a vampire huntress (Musetta Vander) and a Frankensteinian doctor (David Steinberg).

   2009 December 14, Dennis Harvey, “TRANSYLMANIA”, in Variety, volume 417, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 30

   Synonyms: mad scientist