Sentence examples for definition of madness from inspiring English sources

What's the definition of madness?

To keep doing the same thing when it does not work is one definition of madness.

This is one definition of madness: a confusion of categories, of order.

They say that one definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing and to expect different results.

"The definition of madness is always doing what you've always done and expecting a different outcome," he has since mused.

But then she also told us she'd moved from Birmingham to Australia after watching Wanted Down Under, which is the very definition of madness.

Then came Tom and Viv, an unusually plausible play about literary people, a tragedy on both sides of the Eliots' marital estrangement, with a really clever dramatic discussion of degrees, and indeed definitions, of madness.

If male doctors conspired to define madness, responding to behaviors that flouted the social conventions of their culture, female patients, in the attempt to understand themselves and their context, and maybe even to create or bolster identity, colluded with those same doctors to satisfy the changing definitions of madness.

Between the 1870s and the first world war, alienists grappled towards new legal definitions of madness, asking whether it was inherited, whether women were innately prone to "hysteria", what force delusions held, whether mesmerism could impel the sane to commit violence against their will.

But as Appignanesi makes clear, women have had no little role in creating and fulfilling the definitions of their madness.

Even though I knew I was living a life of madness (if one of its definitions is the willingness to do to the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result) I carried on.