Autopsies on people who died in their 50's show that their brains are sometimes riddled with plaque and yet they were in no way demented.
In fairness, this was no more demented than the thoughts of the august broadsheet rock hack, apparently filing his report direct from the 1870s, who predicted that Bush would not take part in any choreographed routines because dancing in public is "unbecoming for a woman of a certain age".
Little wonder that, when the same New York Harbour view that James had seen was still smouldering from the 9/11 attacks, Edward Said declared in the New York Times that George W Bush was no better than a demented Ahab and the "war on terror" was an impossible pursuit like the captain's demonic hunt for the White Whale.
14 In modern societies, social death may increasingly precede biological death, when very old, terminally ill or demented people no longer interact with or are recognized as persons by others.
From these tables, it can be seen that the EMSE is no better than the MMSE at distinguishing demented from non-demented individuals.
And, if all the theories seem inevitably to lead to paranoid and convoluted conclusions, it must be said that no theory is as demented as the crimes themselves.
Having done splendidly by the plays of Martin McDonagh ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane," "The Lonesome West"), Mr. O'Byrne is no stranger to dark, demented characters.
The Fathers' thinking was that the boys should get used to seeing and being around girls so that no boy would go demented at the sight of a breast or a bare leg in the outside world.
No person, save the demented followers of extremist Islam, can view the events in Paris as anything other than utterly horrifying.
Bannon can be a disheveled maniac and only that there doesn't need to be a revelation or nuance or anything beyond a bloodshot sack of demented ambition, no matter how high he ascends.
