Sentence examples similar to insane himself from inspiring English sources

Riley checked himself into an asylum and declared himself insane to avoid claims from his clients.

Another went insane and killed himself.

Mr. Hanssen might well have been insane, as he himself suggested to his Soviet contacts, but he was also a worker bee.

Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair, for example, is still fantastic: a majestic mixture of throbbing strings, trembling piano and the terrifying roar of a jet engine as Coyne laments a pilot who's "gone insane" and hangs himself in a bathroom mid-flight.

In this documentary, we watch a man go insane and destroy himself, his final act of madness being the funeral he organised in which his ashes were sent into the skies with red, white and blue fireworks from a self-aggrandising tower he'd designed with the help of Steadman.

After Scott died, there were rumours that Kathleen was to marry Barrie; this was not true, though Barrie's wife Mary had run away with the novelist Gilbert Cannan, who had been madly in love with Kathleen when Scott was courting her, and ended up in an insane asylum believing himself to be Captain Scott.

7. Karl Koch / August Diehl – German hacker in the 80s who drove himself insane with cocaine abuse, obsession over the number 23 and paranoia over the Illuminatus.

Does he really consider himself insane?

Set in the 18th century, it is the tale of a Quaker who tries to expose the conditions inside an insane asylum and who himself becomes an inmate.

But he does intimate that it was, if you like, the final flashpoint of the intense and "insane" experience of immersing himself in the world of Bush for three months.

And afterward, suppose he got up in the House or Senate and proposed that we declare war on our allies or that we replace General Eisenhower with Westbrook Pegler, or that we move all red-haired people in America to an island off the coast of Greenland - would he expose himself as insane, or even seem markedly different from the other representatives and senators?