Sentence examples for unhinged mind from inspiring English sources

The Elizabethans associated madness with forests, but in Laura Beatty's first novel, "Pollard", an unhinged mind finds lucidity in the woods.Anne, a 15-year-old who "can't see the wood for the trees", abandons her awful family and moves to the forest where she clears a copse, dams a stream and builds herself a shelter.

This is a mine of rich humour, and even when he becomes unhinged in mind the treatment is not distasteful.

There is only a kind of dignified confusion that gradually unhinges the mind.

It's a picture of a mind unhinged, a distorted mirror of Hamlet's "antic disposition".

Is it possible for a whale to swallow a man and for that man to live? (Answer: perhaps, but his skin would be bleached hideously white by stomach juices and his mind unhinged by fear).

Maybe that's Mr. Horowitz's diabolical objective, to unhinge the minds of unsuspecting theater critics.

"This is completely unhinged, and frankly, mind-boggling".

My mind drifted unhinged as I steered the car home through the herds of taxicabs and zigzagging skateboarders.

Through her lawyers, Ms. Gu said that she had acted after her mind became unhinged, in part by what they described as threats Mr. Heywood had made against Bo Guagua, who studied at Oxford before moving on to Harvard.

Bellow's most enduring conflict is the one at the very heart of modernity — between the visionary vortex of the inner voice and the turbulent volume of worldly experience, between the freely unhinged life of the mind and the irrefutable life of the times.

I remember one day nipping in to get to the needle first, and randomly playing Aladdin Sane (my brother's I think, and he certainly was so obsessed with spinning records as to be unhinged) – it blew my mind and remains one of my all-time favourite albums.