Sentence examples for human madness from inspiring English sources

Bubbles are episodes of collective human madness — euphoria over investments whose skyrocketing values are unsustainable.

In "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville uses the river as a metaphor for Captain Ahab's insanity: "Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.

Even here one must beware of passing hasty judgment, for it may be that the grandest design for heroic tragedy may be less affecting than the teasing vision of human madness portrayed in a good farce.

In the end, what cross-cultural psychiatrists and anthropologists have to tell us is that all mental illnesses, including depression, P.T.S.D. and even schizophrenia, can be every bit as influenced by cultural beliefs and expectations today as hysterical-leg paralysis or the vapors or zar or any other mental illness ever experienced in the history of human madness.

How easy it would be to confuse divine and human madness (to borrow a distinction from the Phaedrus 244a5 245c4)!

The acting is uneven but the photography is impressive, the soundtrack and editing inventive, and the picture throws a fascinating light on both America's emerging independent cinema and on Kubrick's future work, the key themes of which (eg the recurrence of doubles, the central idea of plans going tragically wrong through madness and human error) are to be found here.

Belief in causality and in the resemblance of the future to the past are natural beliefs, inextinguishable propensities of human nature (madness apart), and even necessary for human survival.

The men and one woman on board entered one of those mind-numbing episodes of human depravity, madness, fear and brutality that show what the human species is really capable of.

He posed a slightly formal diction in ironic juxtaposition to gritty subject matter: war, drugs, poverty, madness, moral disequilibrium, betrayal — varieties of human folly set against epic backgrounds.

I have long admired John le Carré's ability to explore the fascinating, mysterious world of spies by telling stories steeped in the internal and interpersonal drama of the human condition ("The Madness of Spies," September 29th).

In the middle of our own political madness, human beings gathered together for reflection and somberly found hope.