Sentence examples for insanity as from inspiring English sources

Such people may be found not guilty by reason of insanity, as was John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.

He is oddly reluctant to accept that she might be mentally ill, admitting that he is not inclined to write about insanity: "As soon as you reduce human behaviour to a pathology…it becomes, for literary purposes, less interesting".

Discriminant analysis revealed significant differences in the decision-making process between evaluators recommending sanity and those endorsing insanity, as well as between psychiatrists and psychologists.

I just didn't realize I would be displaying my alleged insanity as well.

She is shown spar-dueling against Kitana and losing to her, then killing and devouring a palace guard in a fit of insanity, as well as killing impostors of King Jerrod, Kitana's biological father, in a team together with Kitana.

The maverick psychiatrist RD Laing once described insanity as "a perfectly rational response to an insane world".

You want urban insanity as a backdrop?

The Durham Rule applies to the pleading of insanity as a defense.

Most courts, for example, accept a claim of insanity as a defence in certain criminal cases.

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

I respect this neurosis, because parking engenders a kind of insanity, as do cars in general.