Sentence examples for towards madness from inspiring English sources
Ellie questions his plan and suggests that Hardy is being pushed towards madness, Lee's reappearance and his continuing guilt over Sandbrook sending him over edge.
The most tragic is Eva, who lost her fiance in the war and who is driven towards madness when spurned by a bankrupt ex-naval hero.
Cadwallader flirts with more dramatic kinds of writing, gesturing towards masochism when Sarah tries a little self-flagellation, towards erotica in some of her dreams, towards madness during a period of fasting.
Power, as ever in Sharpe's world, seems to lead one inexorably towards madness and misadventure, and possibly even to emotional disintegration, death or long-term residence in what is politely termed "a clinic".
By the time Danilov is cuddling up for warmth to the isotope beacon, the combination of terror and the survival instinct has pushed him towards madness; suddenly realising how contaminated he's become, he panics and tries to scrub the radioactivity off his clothes.
They tower over you and pull you towards their madness.
People go towards a madness that they think they know how to cure.
Those who are indifferent to it, like Kirsten Munk, or who try to compose it and fail, like Count O'Fingal, drift towards riot and madness.
The rivalry drives both men towards acts of madness and the film asks what it is that produces this urge to deceive and to puzzle, and why the public delights in being manipulated, fooled and astonished.
In his scenes of decline and madness towards the end of the play some critics found him less moving than his finest predecessors in the role.
