Maybe it’s an insanity test, Haggis thought—if you believe it, you’re automatically kicked out.
Instead, very unusually, we seek what is called a special verdict - a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The cycle of unproductive insanity caused by the illusion of "busy" can only be broken when we consciously and deliberately decide to put an end to it.
“All these feelings welled upin the week before the war, sweeping through the nation in a tide of insanity,”says Mr Segev. “The people had not felt this wretched and isolated since the Holocaust.”
His horrid insanity had reached its peak.
From the Banks' perspective, creating this huge market in side bets was very profitable insanity.
Choose that level of insanity and WaterCar estimates the engine and transaxle installation should run an additional $30 to $50K.
"After she did attempt to plead not guilty by reason of insanity," West said, "Susan Smith was actually convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
In her defense Halen alleged temporary insanity.
The connection was more than academic: might insanity be biological in origin?
That obsession, in the eyes of gun control advocates, borders on insanity and some of the wrinkles of America's permissive gun laws are so bizarre they beggar belief.
Initially it will be really hard to ignore the mind that wants to plan for the future and Muse about the past, but with time you will see through its insanity.
If he were insane, he was a very cool and collected insanity.
There will be stories about famous redheads: Vincent van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Woody Allen and Lucille Ball, thus illustrating the fine line between genius and insanity.
There was a streak of insanity in the family.
Going out of your mind is about reconnecting to the source, remembering where you came from and why you're here. It's about finding perspective and solace in the insanity of day to day life.
Sometimes our days are so crammed with things to do that 10 minutes represents the difference between sanity and insanity.
Insanity is a very tempting path for artists, but we don't need any more of that in the world at the moment, so please resist your call to insanity.
Well, Plato thinks that the empirical world has something of that kind of insanity, something of that kind contradictoriness, built into it that we don't ordinarily notice.
Genius is but one remove from insanity.
In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
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