(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.
Mindless
Definition:
(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
(3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
(5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
(7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
(9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
(11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
(12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
(14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
(15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
(16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
(17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
(18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
(20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.