Sentence examples for insanity from from inspiring English sources

We were reduced to the point of insanity from the general horror and fear of... war.

This month, Mr. Holmes sought to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, from not guilty.

The man accused of killing "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle may have learned how to fake insanity from watching the TV programme "Seinfeld", it has been claimed.

A first-person account of insanity from the author of The Land of Decoration, in which the narrator rebels against the men that play God in her life.

The classic in literature is Joseph Heller's Catch-22, in which Yossarian tries to get out of the army by pleading insanity from shell shock, but simply by doing this he is proving he is is sane – only a madman would want continue military duties.

In William Hogarth's picture The Rake in Bedlam – shown here only as a print – inmates of a dank chamber exhibit various symptoms of insanity, from a man dressed as the pope to the half-naked, shaven-headed Rake who stares fixedly at the floor, fallen into a "melancholy" madness of paralysing despair.

I wanted to be freaked or frightened by "Asylum," instead of which it slipped down as blamelessly as a BBC costume drama, and Marton Csokas's Edgar appears to be suffering less from homicidal insanity than from a stubborn strain of randy plaintiveness.

Where does that glint of insanity come from that seems to link his characters – Andy Bernard from The Office, Stu from The Hangover and now Rusty, whose naivety and lack of self-awareness can verge on the near-psychotic?

I believe 'Insanity' came from the energetic sense of whirling energy felt from the painting.

"I learned to defend against the insanity defense from John Roll," she said.

It's the result of a willfully induced form of mass insanity, stemming from the population's subjection to a brand of political rhetoric so vituperative it often reads like overwritten schoolboy fiction.