Sentence examples for question of madness from inspiring English sources
In 1971, Zhores Medvedev and Roy Medvedev published their joint book A Question of Madness: Repression by Psychiatry in the Soviet Union describing the hospitalization of Zhores Medvedev for political purposes and the Soviet practice of diagnosing political oppositionists as the mentally ill.
He detailed his travails, which included a brief forced stay in a mental hospital, in the books The Medvedev Papers (1970) and A Question of Madness (1971), the latter coauthored with his brother Roy.
The forerunner of McCarthy looked at me as though I had asked a question of utter madness.
The question of Hamlet's madness translates effortlessly to Schweik: Is he really an imbecile or is he just pretending?
In a psychoanalytic battlefield on the question of Hamlet's madness, desire can be found only at great cost, at the most extreme limit of the self.
Cross asserts his compulsion to ask "questions concerning spirituality, the role of madness in artistic genius, the ravages of drug abuse on a soul"; the drug details are especially wrenching.
Between the putative "Oh my God, who knew?" moments come reams of dreary exposition and lofty blather about the nature of madness and the question of evil.
We've already been driven to the brink of madness with unanswerable questions such as: How can we sustain the life of a creature whose incessant, bloodcurdling screams communicate nothing but blind rage and indeterminate need?
Inga, a highly regarded cultural philosopher, shares Erik's fascination with interdisciplinary research on the workings of the brain, thus allowing the erudite Hustvedt to explore larger questions of art and madness, mind and spirit, and the construction of the self.
The question of whether Deas's descent into madness was sudden, or gradual during his productive painting years, hangs over the exhibition here.
As long as the "shoot first, ask questions later" approach prevails, the global beef market will continue to be a source of madness.
