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Sentence Examples It leads to insanity and death, and soon brings about marked changes in the temper and in the health of the etheromaniac. We may be the most self-indulgent country in the world that isn't a tax haven, but you get some really cool stuff thanks to our insanity. It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death. The next day federal marshals brought him back to Baltimore, where he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. I stayed there for a few minutes and considered if I'd be able to plead temporary insanity when I committed matricide. Catch the insanity on and off the stage with The Kids in the Hall as they barnstorm across North America on their historic 2000 reunion tour. Indeed, psychiatrists do not talk of insanity but prefer to use terms such as mental illness or mental disorder. Its title, the bell jar, is a metaphorical explanation for what her insanity felt like. Beelzebub is slowly entering the boys, and through the use of Jack as a minister of evil, delivering the boys to insanity and corruption. She is able to talk about the beauty in women in such a way that distorts it into a kind of straight jacket of insanity and uncontrollableness. Suddenly, with a force propelled by sheer insanity, Charles lifted him bodily and pushed him over the railings. Let me tell you about the non-stop insanity, the constant chaos, the perpetual pandemonium. The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence. For proof of my parents' heartiness, or perhaps their insanity, I point to one of our family vacations. If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, the Democrats are certifiable. If repetition was the definition of insanity, millions would be certifiable each and every New Year. Then again, you could always remember her for her infamous temporary insanity and overactive imagination. Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence. I feel like a crazed kid at a concert who has, in a moment of sheer insanity, jumped off the stage in a grand, sweeping swan dive. They sought to weed out those who opposed capital punishment or were apparently too sympathetic toward an insanity defense. Show More Sentences Ferrell plays Phil, a peewee soccer coach driven to insanity by his scarily competitive relationship with his father. It was at this moment of insanity that the sheer impossibility of the situation came to him. It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity. Louisiana, a defendant had been committed to a state mental hospital after a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. The acquittal will take the form of the special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity resulting in committal to a mental hospital. Her lawyer tried to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was rejected. To me that is so disturbing that I think the case should be dismissed on the grounds of insanity. He could easily slip into a state of insanity and attempt to commit suicide again. Please bear in mind that she pled not guilty by reason of insanity at her arraignment hearing. He was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison but was later transferred to Broadmoor on the grounds of insanity. This pathetic king regularly suffers bouts of insanity and is surrounded by usurpers! It was seven short lines, and Claudia said she examined it closely for signs of insanity. The entire day was beginning to look less and less like a bout of temporary insanity on my part. I've seen it drive perfectly calm and contented people to temporary insanity and depression. The trial judge ruled that this was a defence of insanity, whereupon she pleaded guilty and appealed. Since the average citizen is presumed to be sane, if they claim insanity, who decides? He had frequent bouts of insanity which allowed the structure of his government to be undermined. That tale about the true insanity and lies within a mental institution made a lot of sense to a lot of people. Humans are sociable things who like to communicate and being restricted like that affects people to the point of insanity. As well, he accuses a former lawyer of attempting to trick him into pleading insanity. Show More Sentences In practice, the effect of this strict approach has not been greatly to swell the numbers of people pleading insanity. This still doesn't do justice to the sheer insanity of the whole enterprise though. It was pure insanity that in such a short time we had gained such powerful interest. The way things are set up, the only people to benefit from this insanity are the organic farmers. I'd like to sleep for six months and ignore this pure insanity that we all call winter. Through insanity and institutionalization, this family tends to mirror their times. He is determined to make his actors believe that this insanity is sane, making sure, at all times, that they're playing it straight. Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity. She pointedly quotes Adorno in reference to the relationship between insanity and creative impulse. I come from a large family, too, so I know very well the insanity and craziness that goes on there. Claims that the woman invoked a loa to curse him with insanity are invalidated by a complete lack of proof that he ever became insane. Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity. Continuing the consideration of the influence of the generative organs in the production of insanity, I come now to puerperal insanity. This letter is not about politics, traffic insanity in Lancaster or the debilitating effects of ecological degradation. For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war. Such a grandiose delusion is common to the consideration of an insanity defense. In politics, even what may appear to be insanity is ultimately dictated by a definite objective logic. I even found myself growing away from the very person responsible for my temporary insanity and my hospital visit. The light is from flashing video screens everywhere, forcing you to watch said insanity disporting itself live. If you believe that your ideas are correct, let's have some, instead of dogpiling onto someone else's stupid suggestions of insanity. Show More Sentences The process repeated itself again and again, driving the siblings to the brink of insanity. The second phase is the defense saying she was insane and should get not guilty by reason of insanity. I would expect the defense to go that route, to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Sorry, but that it is just vigilante insanity that is as bad as, or as in this case, worse than the original crime. Thank god for those refuseniks and some modicum of level-headedness in this insanity. Alienists appointed by the court in insanity cases should be deemed to be the court's own witnesses. A contributory factor to the Wars of the Roses was another period of regency caused not by the king's age, but by his insanity. That the Home Secretary reprieved Edmunds on ground of insanity rather than simply commuting her death sentence to a life term is intriguing. When the Home Secretary reprieved Edmunds's death sentence on ground of insanity many believed he based this decision on her gender and class. The teaching of eternal torment has done more to drive people to atheism and insanity than any other invention of the devil. Even with his air of insanity, he still appeared lucid enough to be displeased. It was a completely mad idea, but in a fit of complete and unquestioned insanity I chose to take a swing at it despite my legitimate concerns. It demands with monumental courage, a high tolerance for pain, and at least a touch of insanity. But the Crown may just decide to go ahead and prosecute for murder, which itself allows the accused a defence of insanity that can lead to acquittal. Acquitting a woman on ground of insanity may have saved her from the gallows, or a lengthy prison term, but it also stripped her crime of meaning. Many were deeply peculiar, and some operated in that gray area between ingenuity and insanity. If he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital. A person doesn't pass into insanity when their situations are good. If Julie Schenecker is mentally ill, an insanity defense will be difficult for her to prove, afield said. Loathing and distraction stop the insanity and music clears the soul. Show More Sentences This problem highlights the difficulty in delineating the dividing line between automatism and insanity, or, as it is often termed non-insane automatism and insane automatism. There's something about this place that breeds great madness and insanity. The maiden aunts of Mortimer Brewster, as it turns out, are not totally responsible for their actions, as insanity, to varying degrees, runs in the family. As judge has approved the use of truth serum if the alleged Batman shooter attempts an insanity defense. Experienced defense lawyers, however, well understand that the insanity defense is a very difficult and unpromising choice. If there is no workable defence of insanity, it is surely wrong to convict a grossly disordered killer of murder when the less stigmatic offence of manslaughter is at hand. On appeal in 2006, she was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity and remanded to a psychiatric hospital. His description of Falluja, tinged with Stockholm syndrome rationalizations, painted a picture of what can only be described as collective insanity. His voice teetered on a high pitch between stability and insanity. Stories abound of the insanity that we remember as the 1990s stock mania. I at least hope I have convinced you that my mom is a headcase and look forward to cathartically yet necessarily reviewing the insanity of my father next Saturday. For the past decade or so, curly hair has somehow signified insanity, or worse yet, implied that you were unsanitary. Prosecutors formally indicted her on two counts of capital murder last week and her attorneys promptly gave notice they would enter an insanity defence. Granting this patent was a demonstration of pure insanity in full force. This sort of insanity had infected me when I first came to Kuwait. It's physically and mentally exhausting, it's thankless, it's long days and late hours and you really have to be on the brink of insanity to enjoy it. In his trial for the killings, Wolcott was declared not guilty by reason of insanity after being diagnosed with a mental illness. The strangeness that increasingly unsettles the reader does not appear to bother the characters, who act with an exaggerated ordinariness that comes to resemble insanity. What versions of all that insanity would poke through the din of conversation between these formidable eleven women? This is a place of high anxiety, a labyrinth where the protagonists become so confused by being mistaken for someone else that insanity threatens. Show More Sentences This is nothing short of insanity, motivated solely by bigotry. Which I suppose could cause some people to think I am certifiable, which, honestly, I probably am, but I think the insanity gives my personality the edge it needs. Ego, fame, insecurities, insanity, drugs, or who knows what. Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. Hereditary insanity may appear in children at the same time that it appeared in the parent, and it is then called homochronous. She is overwhelmed by having her unfulfilled love for him so abruptly terminated and drifts into the oblivion of insanity. Waters' lyrics to The Dark Side of the Moon dealt with the pressures of modern life and how those pressures can sometimes cause insanity. Lucie falls into a depression and on their wedding night stabs the bridegroom, succumbs to insanity, and dies. The French king at the time of Joan's birth, Charles VI, suffered from bouts of insanity and was often unable to rule. Fears that King Charles VII would manifest the same insanity may have factored into the attempt to disinherit him at Troyes. It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man. He was tried for high treason, found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, and committed to an insane asylum indefinitely. Shortly thereafter Joanna began to lapse into insanity, though how mentally ill she actually was the topic of some debate. The first words Coke's definition refer to the M'Naghten Rules on the insanity defence and infancy. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as insane automatisms and therefore essentially as a defence of insanity. AoMust Be SantaAo ramps up the insanity to even dizzier levels, with accordions moaning and cymbals crashing away at the speed of polka. With hunting green manteaus festooned with straps and oversized quilted sweats the collection flirts with the line where insanity meets genius. The latter suspect, who raised an insanity defense at trial, ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder. And then once more round the caravans as My Big Fat Gypsy Valentine treated us to another tanorexic tale of moronic insanity. To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. Show More Sentences The decision came hours after Andrea Yates, 37, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder in a Texas court on Wednesday. The first infernal batsqueak of insanity was making itself heard in a new generation. His friends thought his decision to quit his job was pure insanity. Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship. In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it. The illusion that it is the fuel for your talent is the biggest crock of doodoo and if you're in the midst of alcoholic insanity it's no fun for anybody, it's a nightmare. The quasi-death of insanity with its small periodic remissions, its deviations into good sense, even into brilliant insight, was almost more cruel really than outright death. If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account. Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity. Biological and psychological breakdowns may lead to quirky behavior, but the vast majority of carjackings can not be explained or justified by an insanity defense. Merrill was carrying on a grand tradition of gringo insanity at the Inter-Con, which hosted, for a time, the loopiest American of them all, the billionaire Howard Hughes. Examples from Classical Literature This, the second or persecutory stage of delusional insanity, may persist through life. It is often found in cases of insanity of the obsessional or of some other type. There is no consumption nor scrofula, and insanity and hydrocephalus are rare. Poe could indeed do it, although he hovered at times near the border of insanity. And because he had too abiding a gentleness to say it, the insanity of her anger rose anew. But the act she was meditating now was one which seemed like the act of insanity. I have read and known certain kabbalistic triflers, whose insanity provokes my unceasing as astonishment. Another periodical insanity is kleptomania, in which insane stealing occurs at intervals of greater or lesser regularity. Occasionally alcoholic insanity takes on a paretic form, or it may be epileptic. The cases in this family seem all to be instances of manic-depressive insanity. This brings us to a form of insanity which the obsessive may well bear in mind, namely, that known as manic-depressive. The trial court dodged the issue by directing the jury to find the prisoner not guilty on the ground of insanity. But the rapt bard was blinded, as his utterances show, by what now almost appears to have been a fit of delusional insanity. Possibly the doctor's prediction of insanity had lain dormant in some brain cell from which it was now emerging to frighten me. There is no more danger of insanity attacking the worrier and the delicate than the robust and the indifferent. It's best not to be too intelligent about insanity and dipsomania and all the other hereditary details. She took up her abode with me, and shared with me every disgustful and perilous office which my mother's insanity prescribed. This insanity may be due wholly to the overdevelopment of the primary ego in the child. Sanity and insanity are, roughly speaking, states where progressive or regressive thinking rule. It was perhaps partly one of the general results of the Revolutionary insanity earlier, partly a symptom or sequel of byronism. Show More Sentences Short of cases of certifiable insanity there are a number of prisoners who are mentally defective. I have only to get two doctors to certify to the fact of his insanity, and the deed is done. The relation between insanity and ghostliness in recent fiction is significant and forms the crux of many a story since Poe. The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory. He was a man altogether upset, and verging on to a species of insanity. Where insanity is superadded to epilepsy the prognosis is unfavourable. Often in afterlife Pierre recalled this period of blissful insanity. This is so not merely in the sense of insanity but of suicide. This chauvinism has increased to a paroxysm, bordering on insanity. The second kind of insanity is called illusional or delusional. No savant now denies the transmittable taint of insanity and consumption. How many unfortunates have begun by scrupulosity and ended in insanity! To entrust them with large powers is the very acme of wild insanity. Such is our view of the etiology of manic-depressive insanity as a whole. It was a factitious strength, the restlessness of incipient insanity. Or perhaps mine was a physical state, some sort of disease akin to melancholia which is a form of insanity? The most frequent form of idiopathic insanity is melancholia. No part of my insanity was ever held in such ridicule as this. Is not this a manifest case of insanity, in the form known as melancholia? I've never laughed at morbidity, or nerves, or insanity since. Show More Sentences To him came these men broken down, some on the verge of insanity. A sense of self-loathing and abhorrence ran through all my insanity. Savages have paresis, apoplexy, and imbecility, seldom or never insanity. The causes of insanity may be divided into general, and proximate. I see the cunning of insanity, the suspicion of insanity, the feline treachery of insanity in every line of this deplorable document. Bygrave's conviction that there was a lurking taint of insanity in the hou sekeeper's blood had recurred to his memory, and he had left the room at the first opportun ity. I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he, a dogged silence. Its result, on earth, could hardly fail to be insanity, and hereafter, that eternal alienation from the Good and True, of which madness is perhaps the earthly type. There was a gleam of something akin to insanity in her full, intense eyes. Now, you must agree that these are indubitable symptoms of insanity. Flailing around a paperhanger in a force ten gale, buying or selling on the strength of the latest market rumour, Chinese whispers or broker's note can lead only to insanity. Monsieur de Sucy took care to keep secret the motive for this tragic imitation, which was talked of in several Parisian circles as a proof of insanity. Discouraged by lack of appreciation, always abnormally high-strung and neurasthenic, he gradually lapsed into insanity, and died at the age of thirty-seven. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of insanity? Words that rhyme with insanity What is the plural of insanity? What is the adverb for insanity? What is the adjective for insanity? What is the noun for insanity? Translations for insanity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words insanities insanitation insanitary insanest insanely insane Insanity insatiability insatiable insatiable curiosity insatiableness insatiably 8-letter Words Starting With i in ins insa insan insani insanit