What's the difference between berserk and insane?

Berserk


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berserker

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said that a man had gone berserk in a DSS office.
  • (2) Once I’d accidentally picked up a bottle of squash that was not sugar free and she went absolutely berserk.” There was no history of neglect or child abuse.
  • (3) Cumberbatch wasn't aware of the second event that night, because by then his name was trending on Twitter and his phone was going berserk.
  • (4) If Jesse's dead, Walt goes berserk and doesn't cook and Gus has nothing.
  • (5) The result of this berserk desire for Hestonianism is that more than one contestant has already been chastised for cooking the sort of nice, normal food that people might actually want to eat.
  • (6) So, in accordance with the oldest law in economics, prices go berserk.
  • (7) If you Google “Lindy West” and “Roosh”, the first eight results are from Roosh’s various websites: “Lindy West Brags About Getting an Abortion”, “Lindy West Leaving Jezebel, Still a Whale”, “Fat Feminist Lindy West Goes Berserk Because She No Longer Fits in Airplane Seats”, “The 9 Ugliest Feminists in America” (I’m #1!
  • (8) I went berserk when it was introduced and [my view] has not changed since,” Goldsmith said recently.
  • (9) He drowns his demons with alcohol and his drunkenness makes him an unreliable partner in the bootlegging business, but he'll defend his brothers with a berserker's passion when danger draws near.
  • (10) But that can appear false if the public perception is that it’s all just a reaction to that feedback.” The implication is that, if he really wants us to believe that he’s passionate, David Cameron needs to maintain his current berserk enthusiasm for everything until the day he dies.
  • (11) The deficit, in fact, is going down at a rate essentially identical to the rate it was projected to before Osborne's berserk 2010 slash and burn.
  • (12) No: the problem – absolutely nil cause for rejoicing – is that the process of purported regulatory reform, culminating in what sounds like a berserk pizza party in Ed Miliband's office in the earliest hours of Monday, has been transparently idiotic, even down to four Hacked Off reps sitting eyeing the pepperoni and cheese.
  • (13) Carroll, meanwhile, continued to serve as a berserker in the box, spreading chaos every time the ball was crossed towards him.
  • (14) They won best rap album for The Heist and beat Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, Kacey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran in the best new artist category and best rap performance for Thrift Shop over Drake's Started From the Bottom, Eminem's Berserk, Jay Z's Tom Ford and Kendrick Lamar's Swimmingpools.
  • (15) Browne, who described what Zevon did as song-noir, commented: "He had a very stern moral disposition as well as a willingness to take on this berserk persona.
  • (16) The key point is that a charity record lineup should resemble a variety show gone berserk, not an issue of Mojo.
  • (17) Opponents said it was Tea Party radicalism gone berserk.
  • (18) Xi visit shows China is dominant partner in a purely commercial coupling Read more “It has just gone berserk.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldsmith said he ‘went berserk’ when the idea of a third runway at Heathrow was first put forward.
  • (20) Zac Goldsmith MP still threatens to resign if there is a U-turn; Boris Johnson is going berserk .

Insane


Definition:

  • (a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
  • (a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
  • (a.) Causing insanity or madness.
  • (a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
  • (2) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (3) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (4) But gas prices hit $5 in California this month, a price consumers think is "insane" .
  • (5) After briefly discussing the limitations of expert testimony and the adversarial demands of the judicial system, the author concludes that the insanity defense should be retained but altered, and that psychiatrists should bear the burdens of advocating for the mentally ill.
  • (6) The review demonstrates that conditional release is particularly important as a means of balancing the protection of society with the treatment of insanity defense acquittees in the least restrictive environment.
  • (7) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
  • (8) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
  • (9) There is a need for Parliament to consider changes to the law both to prevent the mentally disordered being sent to prison inappropriately, and because the Mental Health Act 1983 has not taken account of rare cases where an offender such as an epileptic might be found legally insane but not mentally disordered.
  • (10) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
  • (11) I have to stay moving, going, running, just to keep me from going insane Michael Brown Sr “I lost my boy.
  • (12) A bit insane if you consider that most of the [Asian] lads were born in Rochdale.
  • (13) Documenting the early history of mental illness in North America is complicated by the absence of colonial institutions specializing in the care or management of the insane.
  • (14) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
  • (15) Not only is the use of the insanity defense infrequent, but defendants who select it give up important safeguards.
  • (16) The lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect behind Norway's terror attacks, said on Tuesday he had concluded his client was most likely "insane" and he was baffled that he had asked him to represent him.
  • (17) The treatment of insane persons in the last century is briefly described.
  • (18) The authors propose that, as occurs in tertiary neurosyphilis and general paresis of the insane, Borrelia species may invade the brain, remain in a latent state for many years, and cause dementia in the absence of other focal neurologic deficits.
  • (19) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
  • (20) McClure said she believed the "insane amount of media" at the park was keeping officials at bay.

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