Sentence examples for A lunacy from inspiring English sources

A billion decimals of pi go so far beyond that kind of precision, into such a lunacy of exactitude, that physicists will never need to use the quantity in any experiment — at least, not for any physics we know of today — and the thought of a billion decimals of pi oppresses even some mathematicians, who declare the Chudnovskys' effort trivial.

It's a lunacy that forces me to use against my will.

It's a lunacy which forces me to use against my will.

Few writers are as incautious as Mailer, and without a redeeming lunacy, an essay born of rage lapses into a disingenuous civility.

Being bushy is distinguished by a collective descent into a functional lunacy.

That's worth a little lunacy.

Deep in the second act of "Heartless," the murky new play by Sam Shepard, a luminous lunacy lights up the stage.

It may be fine to like Ike during periods of smooth sailing, but Lincoln and a little lunacy are the ticket when seas get rough: "For abnormal challenges," Ghaemi insists, "abnormal leaders are needed".

Why did the whale engender a "special lunacy" in Ahab that "stormed his general sanity, and carried it and turned all its concentrated cannon upon its own mad mark"?

Since this is all entirely fixable with knowledge long at our disposal, the calamity of it all is, in a word, lunacy.

The grand, collective madness that is burning the world is a shape-shifting lunacy with a variety of forms that must be discerned and healed wherever it exists.