(n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
(n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
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.
Lunacy
Definition:
(n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.
(n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Italy At least England know what to expect from the Azzurri : a masterclass in the retention of possession, orchestrated by Andrea Pirlo in his quarterback role; a stingy defence most likely forged at Juventus; and a maverick forward capable of brilliance and lunacy in equal measures.
(2) Afterwards, Josiah Heyman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, who studies the border, spelt out what he regards as the lunacy of Sensenbrenner's approach.
(3) Even if they don't involve the heights of lunacy scraped by PFI, the returns on the new scheme will have to be higher than those on government bonds in order to pull in investors.
(4) Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, hit out at the "lunacy" of a previous report from the council, which found that the level of benefits given out in the UK is "inadequate".
(5) I have to assume that an outside entity was feeding her lines, as it is the only explanation for her shambolic, disjointed lunacy.
(6) A fter the summer referendum lunacy, there was a back-to-school feel travelling up to the Green party’s conference last September .
(7) In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Nunes expressed exasperation with the House' hard-right faction, saying it was "lunacy" to shut down the government in an effort to stop Obamacare.
(8) BRITAIN VOTES FOR LUNACY”, screams the Sun, without waiting for the final result.
(9) We also need to be outward-looking, working in Europe though not afraid to criticise the lunacy of what’s happening in the eurozone and Greece today.
(10) One source briefed the Sunday papers that the education secretary's costly obsession with free schools approached " lunacy "; hours later, a second source leaked official emails that undermined the Lib Dems' claims that they had figured out how to fund their own pet project, free meals for all infant pupils.
(11) Full of scientific lunacy and wild action, this book spawned a slew of sequels chronicling the exploits of group Capt Timothy "Tiger" Clinton RAF (retired), his son Rex, Prof Lucias Brane and his butler Judkins in the good ship Spacemaster (which handily runs on the cosmic rays all around us – which certainly saves on fuel bills).
(12) What’s needed is strongly worded advice from America’s allies about the fragility of the global economy and lunacy of a global trade war.
(13) Odemwingie first criticised West Brom following his abortive move to Queens Park Rangers on 31 January, when he turned up at Loftus Road without permission in an act labelled as "total lunacy" by his manager, Steve Clarke.
(14) Dominic Dromgoole Shakespeare's Globe Even from the perspective of an unsubsidised theatre, it would seem perilous to the point of lunacy to lessen the amount of overall subsidy in our culture.
(15) Thames river pageants have always been a mixture of the grand and the loony, and this one looks like it is going to have elements of complete lunacy.
(16) Spare me the weirdos who can't outgrow their attachment to them; and spare me the fetishising lunacy that compels adults to find a way to communicate with their children through the agency of soft mouths.
(17) In the preface he wrote: "I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years."
(18) But there is a difference between enjoying the lunacy and letting such lunatic declarations become the norm – which they now are, from supermodels to CEOs.
(19) Although a 1964 film captured something of the play's anarchic lunacy, with Eric Sykes constructing a model of the Old Bailey in his living room while a mute Jonathan Miller taught 100 speak-your-weight machines to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, the play was too theatrical for the cinema.
(20) I tell him of a particularly vile one, with references to hanging, lunacy and HIV.