The band chose it as the album title to "state the bleeding obvious ... that the most powerful country on earth is run by somebody who stole an election", but also in response to "the rise of doublethink and general intolerance and madness, and feeling very much like individuals were totally out of control of the situation that somehow it was a manifestation of something not really human".
It infuses a kind of madness, a feeling that anything is possible.
And by madness, I'm not referring to a hectic schedule... I'm talking about feeling downright mad about not being a mom.
It was about the madness-inducing feeling, the aching void and the wave of loneliness.
Shearer describes her feeling for Gable as a madness, and Howard, in "Animal Kingdom," seems to regard his attraction to Loy as a bewitchment.
But if Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa and Oona Laurence are feeling overwhelmed by awards-week madness, they certainly aren't letting it show.
There is a restrained sense of madness throughout The Cars That Ate Paris; a feeling the drama might tip over into mayhem at any moment.
In the meantime, "A First-Rate Madness" will make a thoughtful present for any politician going through rehab and feeling a little discouraged.
We know, unlike them, that Patrick has no cause to be proud of his mother, and that, far from applauding the conversion of the Saint-Nazaire family home into a foundation, he has found its loss catastrophic: "For a long time the feeling of madness brought on by the loss of his French home had made it impossible to get over his resentment of Eleanor.
This is the "madness" everyone always wants the feeling that, at any moment, anything can happen.
