Sentence examples for a sort of insanity from inspiring English sources

I had not read it for thirty years, but now I re-read it — Spalding, a playwright himself, had surely read it — and was reminded how Ellida, who grew up in a lighthouse, the daughter of an insane mother, was herself driven to a sort of insanity by her obsession with the sea and what she felt as a "terrifying attraction" to a sailor who seemed to embody the sea.

A: Sort of.

So maybe one can't reach that far without having a certain sort of insanity.

It's an interesting sort of insanity-you see the world as something other than it is.

But they are trying to ensure that the sort of insanity that happened at Kabul Bank does not happen again.

For all its bravado this week, the defense has not foreclosed any option, including a claim that Simpson did kill his ex-wife and Goldman but was suffering from some sort of insanity at the time.

Were they pumping some sort of insanity gas into this train carriage?

No one in the world had ever been confronted with this sort of insanity ever before in their lives.

For those living there, "a sort of senile childhood was protracted almost to insanity".

This helps with charisma too, but in a sort of a different way (and this has nothing to do with insanity, but instead persuasion. I'm putting this here so that you understand the difference between Light+KIRA and Light).

Well, it is a form of insanity, I suppose, but of a different kind.