What's the difference between insane and moonstruck?

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.

Moonstruck


Definition:

  • (a.) Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
  • (a.) Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
  • (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1987, Norman Jewison told him to quit trying to play Ronny, in Moonstruck , with art house surrealism.
  • (2) "I really didn't want to make that," he says of Moonstruck.
  • (3) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
  • (4) That glorious slap Cher gives Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck before yelling “Snap out of it”?
  • (5) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.