Sentence examples for akin to madness from inspiring English sources
Ginsberg's poem Howl (1955-6) sees creativity as an ordeal akin to madness and dereliction: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …" But in the title of his poem Death to Van Gogh's Ear!, he seems to reject that cult of the "mad" artist, to mock Van Gogh's ear as an icon of creative suffering.
Here Aronofsky shows that what it takes to give a performance isn't just physical pain but a passionate imagination that risks overwhelming the life when that life turns out to be deficient — and that, when this is so, the result may be something akin to madness.
Ms. Lepore was trying to puzzle out why little bouclé jackets -- and in particular a tweed plaid version with a boxy shape and frayed edges, a knockoff of a Chanel original -- should be the surprise hit of the season, igniting a feeding frenzy somewhat akin to last year's madness for the Louis Vuitton Murakami bag.
When the mythological shit hits the fan, Marcus Farnsworth makes Eddy's cataclysmic scream truly terrible, and his madness has a sweetness akin to Stravinsky's Tom Rakewell in Bedlam.
Akin to history-haunted novels like The Magus and Beloved, Intruders in Smoke draws on the Gothic tradition ghosts, horror, madness, tragic and transgressive love to confront the anxieties of identity and erasure for those who've been shaped almost entirely by the country and people that colonized the land of their birth.
With eagerness akin to love,.
But I felt more akin to Estraven.
I felt very akin to him".
"They are akin to a political appendix.
It was akin to that ordeal".
