Sentence examples for insanity period from inspiring English sources

He spent five weeks in what he calls his "insanity period," during which the only thing that kept him alive, he says, was the prospect of watching McVeigh die.

When will this insanity stop?

The entire play is a commentary on the political corruption and insanity surrounding the period.

His only son endured a period of insanity.

Van Gogh himself described his mood as a period of insanity and soon afterwards entered an asylum.

It was symptomatic of a period of insanity, with too much money washing around the economy.

It added that the Bush administration was "going through a period of insanity that is worsening every day".

Nor does it enhance public safety since states can civilly commit anyone who is found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity for an indefinite period, until they are no longer dangerous.

Much of Harper's early compositions have the indelible mark left by his traumatic adolescence - a harrowing spell with the RAF, his discharge after feigning insanity, followed by a period of drifting between mental institutions and prison.

Mr. Reider, who does not act in the capacity of a psychologist when he is attending meetings, described the first year after the breakup of a marriage as a "period of insanity". Many men, he said, do not know where to turn for help.

The beauty inherited from her mother Julia is there for all to see but is now perhaps qualified by what we know was to come, especially the changes wrought on her features by the terrible period of insanity of 1913-15, during which, at one point, four nurses tended her and she was scarcely aware that her first novel had been published.