was a daughter of , the King of | The five-part song "Cassandra Gemini" may reference this syndrome, as well as the film or in 's "Cassandra Syndrome" |
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Individuals sometimes acquire the label of 'Cassandras', whose warnings of impending environmental disaster are disbelieved or mocked | In her frightened, ego-less state, the Cassandra woman may blurt out what she sees, perhaps with the unconscious hope that others might be able to make some sense of it |
she may become increasingly irrational or hysterical.
29Only The Paranoid Survive 1999• In the words of Atkisson: "too often we watch helplessly, as Cassandra did, while the soldiers emerge from the Trojan horse just as foreseen and wreak their predicted havoc | |
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being disbelieved when attempting to relate the facticity of these experiences to others | , New Monologues For Women By Women — Vol II 2005• [ ] Environmental movement [ ] Many environmentalists have predicted looming environmental catastrophes including , rise in sea levels, irreversible , and an impending collapse of , including those of and |
"both of them agreed to treat the Cassandra-like prophecies which Thiebault kept sending from Salamanca as 'wild and whirling words.