Sentence examples for fear of madness from inspiring English sources

Shakespeare's Lear bears the weight of age and lives in fear of madness.

In his later work, Dick explores what lies behind our fear of madness, and perhaps it's there that his work becomes true art.

Mosley's story can be read on three levels: as an allegory of hippies, as a psychedelic novel and, finally, as a novel about the fear of madness.

Apart from the great Lear interpreters, Streep, in "The Iron Lady," has given us the best impression we've had of a potentate suffering from loss of power and fear of madness.

Johnson's exaltation of reason was built on a fear of madness; the personalities of Nicholas and the other characters are all too malleable, warped by drugs or trauma or sudden mania.

Surveying the eventful second half of the British philosopher's life, Monk maintains that instead of love and pity, "a deep-seated fear of madness and a quite colossal vanity" drove Russell "inexorably" toward "disaster".

The therapy included mitigating patients' fears of madness by pointing out that even "normal" people can hear voices.

Her portrayal of a wealthy matron fending off fears of madness and dissolution captured exactly the equilibrium of the play's title.

Although the play's eventual resolution may seem somewhat facile, what transpires before is a touching study in filial devotion, as brilliant people struggle against their fears of madness.

As in "The Golden Notebook," the psychological struggles of women to come to terms with their marriages and their own fears of madness and despair are delineated, though this time without the daring narrative innovations of that earlier novel.

A melancholy 1920s English novelist is crucified with fear of encroaching madness.