Sentence examples for insane pursuit from inspiring English sources

Did it encourage you to see playwriting as a slightly less insane pursuit?

I immediately took all of Melville's lofty philosophical questions and observations and reduced them to the petty concerns of my personal life, including my irrational quest to make a living as a cartoonist and my insane pursuit of The New Yorker in particular.

Writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the artist Gilbert Wilson saw the White Whale as an augury of atomic conflict, and Ahab's "insane pursuit of Moby Dick into the Sea of Japan" as analogous to America's "atrocious nuclear experiments and explosions in the same area".

And "there is no doubt, as things now are, among the young men of modern civilised life, in cities, that a healthy manly virility seems to be almost lost – seems to have given place to a morbid, almost insane, pursuit of women, especially of the lowest ranges of them, for the mere repetition of the sensual pleasure.

We have wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives in the insane pursuit of a humane way to commit an inhumane act.

That's the ideal and that is what makes the pursuit, the insane hours and the chronic stress of this game worthwhile, at least for those who practice my brand of entrepreneurialism.

And yet, it must be said, his oeuvre is a mine field of parodic ordnance: The existential dread of his documentaries, the Technicolor globetrotting of his feature films, the deadpan voice-overs, the protagonists driven to murderous ends in pursuit of an insane goal parody beckons with every new iteration of his oversized themes.

And yet, it must be said, his oeuvre is a minefield of parodic ordnance: the existential dread of his documentaries, the Technicolor globetrotting of his feature films, the deadpan voiceovers, the protagonists driven to murderous ends in pursuit of an insane goal parody beckons with every new iteration of his oversized themes.

The pursuit of such verities will lead you, eventually, to the most insane of creative feats: getting under the skin of a cat.

Yoko conceived the "insane" characters around the premise that people who killed hundreds of people in pursuit of their goals and took satisfaction from it were naturally insane.

"It's insane, insane, insane, insane," one said cheerfully.