Sentence examples for close to insane from inspiring English sources

The Labour party would be close to insane not to take it.

To mastermind his project, he chose Georges-Eugène Haussmann, a career bureaucrat and an early ally, giving him free reign to demolish, align, remodel, expand, and evict on a scale that still seems close to insane.

But even with the NASDAQ index surging beyond 5,000, a trading P/E of 36.5 is nowhere close to the insane levels witnessed during 2000.

Which makes it close to football-insane for Washington to give up a second-rounder in 2012 and first-rounders in 2013 and 2014 to move up from No. 6 to No. 2. Griffin might seem like a sure thing, but every No. 2 overall pick seemed like a sure thing seven weeks before the draft.

Do you see? Isn't it clear that this would drive me and anyone close to me absolutely insane?

This massive expansion of coal power generation so close to huge urban areas like Tokyo is simply insane," said Lauri Myllyvirta, a senior coal campaigner at Greenpeace.

If you're like a normal person, being close to your crush is going to drive you insane.

Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare.

Last year, in a letter signed Ramon Garcia, B told his Russian handlers that he had "come as close to the edge as I can without being truly insane.

That's about as close to saying, "Yes, of course it is, are you insane?," as Coppola can get without an actual confirmation.

Driven insane by the loss of all who were close to him, he equips himself with the forbidden drum to play music with his wife's musician lover.