Considering all the words for mental illness, both those used by medical doctors and those that are cruel slurs used by the general public, it is striking how many of them have connotations of being broken or disorganized: deranged, crazy (which means cracked itself a derogatory term), unglued, having a screw loose, unhinged, off the wall.
"Considering all the words for mental illness, both those used by medical doctors and those that are cruel slurs used by the general public, it is striking how many of them have connotations of being broken or disorganised: deranged, crazy (which means cracked— itself a derogatory term), unglued, having a screw loose, unhinged, off the wall".
That should be a great relief: Some of them are just like us! Just because you are deranged doesn't mean you are irrational, after all.
But Judge Cotter said that "most intentional killers are in some way deranged; does that mean we should put them in mental hospitals?" Experts attested to Mr. Troy's competence to stand trial and his legal responsibility for his acts, the judge said.
In this case, an administrative glitch meant the deranged student gunman was never put on the federal firearms watch list, even though he was previously deemed dangerous by a judge who had ordered him into psychiatric therapy.
The David Foster Wallace influence seemed so pronounced, there was the conspicuously dubious taste and a fondness for deranged critical hyperbole – I mean, who would even bother to listen to Guns N' Roses, let alone claim that Axl Rose achieved "the greatest white male rock dance moment of the video age"?
I was being asked to hand these embryos off to unvetted strangers -- who could be deranged, sex offenders or just plain mean -- like a bag of groceries.
Like so many abandoned hospitals, its corridors are said to be primarily haunted by the ghost of a deranged nurse – in this case, the ghost is La planchada (which in Spanish means 'smartly-dressed woman').
And by 'zany antics' we mean delusional obsession, stalking, kidnapping, and a laundry list of other deranged felonies.
Noah violently turning Claire's life upside down is meant to be trashy fun, but Cohen and screenwriter Barbara Curry don't have the deranged heart, or the skill at smoothing over dumb plotting, to make disreputably pleasurable exploitation.
