(n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
(n.) A gas jet or burner.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(2) However, not only are domestic violence charities closing , but also most victims of gaslighting don’t present at specialist services because they have been trained to believe they, not the relationship, are the problem.
(3) One of his many tactics is to secretly dim the gaslights in their home and tell Bergman she is insane when she comments that the lights are flickering.
(4) The psychological coercion Helen experienced is a particular type of manipulation known as “gaslighting”, after the 1944 film Gaslight .
(5) The Guardian view on domestic abuse: truth, fiction and The Archers | Editorial Read more The failure to understand gaslighting is not just dangerous to victims of adult domestic abuse, but to many psychiatric populations.
(6) The battle against sexual violence is being lost – look at the number of young victims | Joanna Bourke Read more As gaslighting makes people feel mad, and as labelling someone as insane is a classic form of abuse, people often turn to their GP.
(7) I think people such as her, who have been acting since they were teenagers, develop special gifts because they learn the basis of their craft when they are young and impressionable.” Blakemore’s theory that one key to Lansbury success as a prodigy – she was nominated for an Oscar at 19 for her performance in the thriller Gaslight (1944) – is supported by the fact that one of her closest showbiz friends was Elizabeth Taylor, a child-star with whom she worked on National Velvet.
(8) But it is an essential one if we are to stop psychiatric discourse being used as a gaslighting technique to discredit the lived experiences of those too readily seen as mentally ill. • The freephone 24-hour national domestic violence helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge , can be reached on 0808 2000 247.
(9) But it’s the accordion player who really takes you back, to Paris in the 1930s – gaslight in the alleys, hope on the horizon.
(10) He was absorbed by tales of pimps and voodoo queens, and pictured Mister Jelly Roll as the dust jacket described him, “wearing a hundred-dollar suit as sharp as a tipster’s sheet … the diamond in a front tooth gleaming like gaslight”.
(11) Gaslighting is so dangerous because it skewers the individual’s capacity to explain and realise what is wrong.
(12) I wish I had faith that the psychiatric system would have spotted why [The Archers'] Helen was so distressed Most victims of domestic abuse , narcissistic relationships or abusive childhoods see gaslighting as often as damaging as physical abuse.
(13) She was not able to articulate her actual experiences, an excellent representation of the gaslighting experience where victims are coerced into believing that if they could just be less emotional, have more positive thoughts and be less troublesome, all would be well.
(14) Gaslighting tends to start gradually, and can often appear ridiculous and everyday at first, for example being accused of overreacting because you are premenstrual.
Sanity
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(2) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(3) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(4) That has been echoed by the Rally for Sanity's cheerleaders in the media.
(5) We have been in touch for several months now and, right from the start, he has always made it clear he had to do this for his own sanity.
(6) It was concluded that psychiatric cases can commit any form of crime and that where the sanity of a criminal, whatever the type, is doubted, he should be referred for psychiatric evaluation.
(7) They raised the issue of Holmes's sanity , a matter that could be key to avoiding the death penalty.
(8) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(9) Perhaps this is the best one can hope for, that the voices of sanity prevail.
(10) Monroe, who is also a campaigner on health and poverty issues, said she was taking the decision “for my own sanity and also the safety of my seven-year-old son”.
(11) My colleagues and I do what we can to maintain safety, sanity and self-esteem in an academic environment that is still dominated by old boys’ networks, and we hope that things will improve as more women become established and take on senior roles.
(12) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(13) In its leader the Mail calls for a privacy law "fit for the 21st century" and one which will "restore freedom of the press and sanity to the law" .
(14) A factory worker of wobbly sanity (Ryan Reynolds) is implicated in the accidental death of a co-worker.
(15) For my sanity, I felt my only option was also to go "on the run".
(16) Simple but clean and well organised, the 400-bed hospital is a haven of sanity in a sick environment.
(17) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(18) William Langewiesche’s 2014 essay on the crash is one of the best things ever written about automation, and serves as a sanity check of the idea that drivers of autonomous road vehicles could simply intervene in the event of a crash.
(19) Often, when people are creating something new, they end up straddling between sanity and insanity,” said Stefansson.
(20) Many of us are still active on climate, fracking, nuclear and social justice, and all of us know that the battle for sanity hasn’t been won yet.” This article was amended on 26 January 2016 to correct Green party candidate Pippa Pemberton’s election details.