Sentence examples for appear insane from inspiring English sources

"Most people exist so swaddled against danger, measuring out their lives with coffee spoons, that those who reckon by a different calculation of risk and reward appear insane," wrote Michael Ybarra in The Wall Street Journal in 2009, three years before his death.

In a fast-paced world, in which we can get bogged down in emails and meetings, speeding up the idea-to-testing phase might appear insane, but for innovative companies open to new ways of thinking, Sprints could be a novel way to save time and money.

The reciprocal might be that any stupidity sufficient enough to appear insane is insane.

She's living proof of Kurt Vonnegut's famous observation that "a sane person to an insane society must appear insane".

I made it through my wedding without incident; adrenaline and the risk of appearing insane in front of 120 guests does wonderful things for the psyche.

Both encourage risky expression that appears insane to outsiders.

Giuliani's reference to Hillary Clinton trying to make women who had sex with her husband look insane appeared to be a reference to private conversation that the former first lady had with Diane Blair, a friend.

From the outside, this all can appear, well, insane — a distraction from the state's many economic and social problems.

Wall Street lives in its own world, governed by rules that seem logical to its denizens but appear clinically insane to everyone else.

To a liberal European reporter, from afar, American gun culture appears utterly insane.

Giving the record away for free might have seemed generous in the moment, but it appears increasingly insane in retrospect, especially given the oncoming era of relentless customization.