Sentence examples for madness against from inspiring English sources

Here, Balanchine seemed to tell a story about a Schumann-like figure descending into madness against Rouben Ter-Arutunian's neo-Romantic decor.

The cheeks of his soul collapsed in him: he dashed himself in blind fury and swift madness against the wall, and fell dabbling in the vomit of his loathed identity.

They certainly enjoyed watching Torres somehow poke Nicolas Anelka's seventh-minute chip forward against the post, which briefly suggested another turbulent outing for the striker on his first appearance at Stamford Bridge since his moment of madness against Swansea.

In their displays of cruelty and passionate excesses, the Greek gods remind mortals of their limits, they caution against transgression, against madness, against the "ex-" – what is "out of," what is "beyond".

Do women have to get naked in order to prove that they are "real?" No, the message is directed against gender madness and against letting absurd developments get more attention than they deserve.

Lecter is to an extent humanised by the childhood explication of his madness; pitted against corporate America - petty, tasteless, unintelligent and sexist - the ultimate baddie becomes the goody, and while suspense is maintained, disbelief is harder to suspend.

All of them headed toward a March Madness showdown against Florida in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday.

It became a mass cultural phenomenon in the fight against the insanity of the Vietnam War, and continued on against the madness of MAD, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that our political leaders believed justified the production of thousands of nuclear weapons, any one of which could change life on earth beyond recognition.

Against the madness of Trump, against Republican efforts to reverse the gains of the Obama Administration, she offers the assurance of another four years of liberal federal judges and civil servants that the country built by the rock-and-roll generation won't quickly be eroded.

In "L'Inceste," she calls writing a defense against madness.

He always told his friends to smoke a pipe because that too, he claimed, was a bulwark against madness.