What's the difference between insane and madman?

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.

Madman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of Khan's murder accusation, Anwar replied: "It's a madman's rant.
  • (2) As with Breivik, politicians will be quick to the thesis of the lone madman.
  • (3) and you're just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman."
  • (4) But to dismiss this as a case of a lone "madman" would be a mistake.
  • (5) The saintly madman is a familiar character in South Asia.
  • (6) Unless that new song is supposed to have a bit in the middle that sounds like a musical birthday card that was designed by a madman and doesn't have very much battery left.
  • (7) I ask him if he minds not getting the extreme gigs, the starving madman roles that go to Daniel Day-Lewis and the Oscar squad.
  • (8) And how much easier would it be today, in the era of television, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin to pervert the spirit of a whole nation?
  • (9) 6 December Rio Ferdinand criticises Moyes' policy of leaving it late to pick his teams, telling BT Sport: "It turns you into a madman."
  • (10) He told Podemos’s followers to dream and, like that noble madman Don Quixote, “take their dreams seriously”.
  • (11) If the structures of democracy are strong – you can have a madman or madwoman for four years or even eight, and then he or she is gone, and the nation’s freedoms live.
  • (12) Plus "In your heart, you know he's right," the 1964 ad for insane madman loser Barry Goldwater .
  • (13) Don’t think for one minute I was going in every day and behaving like a madman.
  • (14) It was a big-budget popcorn movie with a subversive message at its core that Padilha says he fought for “like a madman”.
  • (15) The nature of the arms trade suggests that they will soon be circulating in the intricate webs of the shadow world, available to any insurgent force; any "terrorist" group; any madman with a plan.
  • (16) The psychiatrist has been depicted in widely varying ways--as madman, as a powerful force for tinkering with the soul, and as a wonder worker who cures patients by uncovering a single traumatic event.
  • (17) The cross-cultural consideration of our Psychiatric Epidemiology Program outlined the profile of the madman and his discourse as both mirror and enigma of his cultural community.
  • (18) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
  • (19) Nicholson drew barbs at the time for what some critics felt was the over-the-top nature of his performance in the final half-hour, when he degenerates from a taunting madman into a screaming, grunting beast with an axe.
  • (20) "This is not the work of a soldier; this is not the work of madman: it is the work of their government.

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