Sentence examples for in lunatic from inspiring English sources

He punished political rivals by publishing the names of their relatives in lunatic asylums.

"Tabloid stories are what I imagine patients' diaries are like in lunatic asylums," says Mr. Affleck.

They steal for no real purpose, and order bespoke suits in lunatic designs — costumes they wear only in one another's company, in a secret hideout in a crumbling spa hotel called the Peculiar.

Written by a historian and shortlisted for the 2014 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, Inconvenient People shares for the first time the stories of twelve nonconformists who were incarcerated against their will in lunatic asylums.

The murkiest, most bilious depths of hospital hell, on the other hand, are gleefully explored in A Cure for Wellness (Fox, 18), a grotesquely absurd, indulgent and wholly thrilling wallow in lunatic gothic horror from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski that has to be the year's most extravagantly demented big studio film.

It is noted that his whole family have spent time in lunatic asylums and he, too, fears for his own sanity – but Johanne is unfazed by this, telling him that all artists walk hand in hand with insanity and must harness it.

He got into television in the 1950's, after Max Liebman saw him on stage in "Lunatics and Lovers" and produced two specials for him.

He got into television in the 1950's, after Max Liebman saw him onstage in "Lunatics and Lovers" and produced two specials for him.

I also considered putting in a raving lunatic and a snake-oil salesman, but instead I went for the snake charmer.

But even in their lunatic pomp, Oasis never sat around in matching union flag dressing gowns.

As soon as he graduated, his father found him a job in Canada working as an orderly in a lunatic asylum.