What's the difference between distraughtness and insaneness?

Distraughtness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their families are said be be distraught at the news and have been clinging to the hope their daughters would want to come home.
  • (2) They’re all really distraught because this is another new year for them on Nauru,” she said.
  • (3) Following the statement, distraught relatives of Chinese passengers attacked Malaysia for announcing the crash and loss of life without direct proof, and for wasting the best chance to rescue those on board.
  • (4) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
  • (5) He’s still distraught at not getting in to Old Trafford.
  • (6) And even though she was visibly distraught after the verdict was read out she feels that it wasn't going to be any other way.
  • (7) Distraught, I brought it into the office on Monday to gauge the opinions of my fashion colleagues.
  • (8) David Miliband was leaning hard towards quitting two days ago – "too distraught, too disappointed" said one ally – but if he had any doubts they were settled by the spat over the Iraq war he had with Harriet Harman , picked up by the TV cameras, during his brother's keynote speech to conference as leader on Tuesday.
  • (9) The Duchess was left distraught and broke down sobbing during the proceedings.
  • (10) The way everyone was distraught at the final whistle, meant this game was always going to be like this.
  • (11) She added, they are "scared and distraught, can't believe it's true, don't want it to be true".
  • (12) Those who want to say something about the atrocities in the Middle East may indeed be genuinely distraught, they may feel that the need to pass on this visual information places them on some unquestionable moral high ground.
  • (13) An elderly woman, distraught over the recent death of her husband, was found dead of an apparent suicide.
  • (14) Earlier in the day, Anthony Little, the brother-in-law of the uspect, emerged from the house and told NBC4 the family were "distraught".
  • (15) Aaron Campbell was at his girlfriend’s flat and was said to be distraught over the death of his brother, whom he had nursed before he succumbed to heart disease and kidney failure.
  • (16) Sitting with the child and parents in my office and seeing how distraught they all were was heartbreaking.
  • (17) At one point, he became so distraught that Judge Brian Keith interrupted proceedings to tell Adoboli that he shouldn't be embarrassed about becoming overrun by his emotions, and that it gave the jury a chance to "see the man behind the name".
  • (18) The action was described by Miss F as having left her mother, who had no involvement in the disagreement, "totally distraught" in the last weeks of her life.
  • (19) He is able to speak but obviously he’s absolutely distraught – he’s absolutely broken.
  • (20) Distraught and weeping, she was surrounded by reporters and cameramen.

Insaneness


Definition:

  • (n.) Insanity; madness.

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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