How To Use Sanity In A Sentence

Olivia and Adam pray that she does not participate in it, fearing for her health and sanity.
Her office was an oasis of peace and sanity amid the surrounding chaos.
For the sake of sanity, radio shows and other broadcasts are lumped in with "bootlegs" -- the term bootleg is taken to be anything not released by the band on one of its official record companies. DISCOGRAPHY: Genesis, by Scott McMahan
At one time or another I also participated in extemporaneous speaking, poetry and prose reading, and in a particular lapse of sanity, number sense.
Phillips murdered his wife, but got off on a plea of insanity.

To see that sanity can for once prevail over the country's foremost fresh foods market should please all.
Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds. Mercy Kill
I come from a large family, too, so I know very well the insanity and craziness that goes on there.
Hallucigenia" hits a good cross section of themes and set pieces central to my work -- hard bitten protagonists, dark cults, insanity, gratuitous rumpy pumpy, esoteric lore, super science, monsters, and cosmic horror all tangled up in pulp-noir webbing. INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas.
Of course, there is the issue of letting sleeping dogs lie, because once you start down this path only insanity awaits, because inevitable questions arise as to what on earth chardron, nattier, parma, and Sahara actually looked like. Archive 2009-05-01
Her lawyer tried to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but that was rejected.
Responses written on the boards are wide-ranging, however, most call for sanity and peace.
And the law already punishes those found guilty of that insanity. The Sun
Yet the questions remain: Are clean lungs and a fatter wallet worth my sanity?
Joining a germinal but growing movement, the soldiers represent that war-weariness and a desired return to sanity in the country.
My post, while intentionally understated, is meant to provoke one to think about the insanity of "sameness" being the purpose of education. "No Child Left Behind" Is Nothing New In Albuquerque
Reports indicate that the public defender representing Joseph Hall, who is now 11, may pursue an insanity defense.
My previous experience suggested that digital photography can damage your sanity. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance.
Luckily sanity prevailed with the manager intervening and the test went on.
This is as common as dirt in the blogosphere and the big wide world, but it's a kind of formalized, group-oriented insanity. Making Light: Open thread 134
Which I suppose could cause some people to think I am certifiable, which, honestly, I probably am, but I think the insanity gives my personality the edge it needs.
We have to pick our way to sanity through a cacophony of pressure and hassle which are not the product of any one moment in time but of the times in which we live.
Alcoholism is a thief of health, mental sanity and human dignity. Dr T.P.Chia
This urge to categorize was the true fall of man, for once the process was begun, there was no easy or natural return to sanity. THE BROKEN GOD
Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence.
This is the story behind the Victorian madwoman in the attic, of all the forgotten women whose rewritten histories replace isolation with hysteria, and non-conformity with insanity.
Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance.
The notion that on-the-spot 100 fines will bring sanity and serenity is hopelessly naive. Times, Sunday Times
I stayed there for a few minutes and considered if I'd be able to plead temporary insanity when I committed matricide.
Alcoholism is a thief of health, mental sanity and human dignity. Dr T.P.Chia
There's something about this place that breeds great madness and insanity.
Judging by the current spectacular planetary activity, it would be insanity to refuse what comes your way. Times, Sunday Times
Penhall plies his pen widely, commenting on the dilapidated National Health Service and the nature of perception, sanity, and normalcy.
There is the wrist-drop, the eyesight affected, the partial paralysis, the hallucinations and a condition in old Pearcy's case almost bordering on insanity -- to enumerate the symptoms that seem to be present in varying degrees in various persons in the two houses. The War Terror
The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
He pulled a doublet over his shirt and said, ‘I will try to return after all this insanity is over, I assure you.’
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, the Democrats are certifiable.
Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
Or saw her there and gave in to spur-of-the-moment insanity? C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
In the context of raucous comedy, the insanity conceit works well. The Times Literary Supplement
Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity.
Really, the presidential idiotism of George Bush should be curbed for the sanity and safety of the American people. Biden calls Bush comments 'bulls**t'
The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity, a multi-coloured straitjacket and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.
Insanity is both a legal and a medical word, specifically referring to diagnosable illness; one can do wicked things and still be sane. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity.
But the Crown may just decide to go ahead and prosecute for murder, which itself allows the accused a defence of insanity that can lead to acquittal.
He was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison but was later transferred to Broadmoor on the grounds of insanity.
The teaching of eternal torment has done more to drive people to atheism and insanity than any other invention of the devil.
Indeed, psychiatrists do not talk of insanity but prefer to use terms such as mental illness or mental disorder.
The legal concept of insanity is of a different nature from the medical.
The trial judge ruled that this was a defence of insanity, whereupon she pleaded guilty and appealed.
Songs like ‘Woof Woof, I'ma Goof’ and ‘I Gotta Rash’ also add to the madcap insanity.
Looks like I am gravitating towards the relative calm, uncommercialised sanity of the new-age-goddess-wisdom-crone corner of the interwebby for a breather. Archive 2009-03-01
Such a move is essential for the sanity of all concerned.
The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
My house is one that people who relish their germ-free personal space - and their sanity - would avoid like the plague.
The young man was seized with a desire to appeal to the sanity and the kindliness of one who seemed to possess both so aboundingly. The Puritans
To be condemned for the colour or creed you were born with, really defies reason or sanity.
You get a bunch of green stones that represent sanity points, and the rule book, which is a glossy foldable half-sheet. Cthulhu Dice « Third Point of Singularity
I finally regained my sanity and stippled gold and copper acrylic paint on the back of each piece.
When Winston Churchill opposed the conventional wisdom that Hitler was tolerable, he was isolated from public life, his sanity questioned.
Consider whereabout thou art in Cebes's [25] table, or that old philosophical pinax [26] of the life of man: whether thou art yet in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entred the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way, which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Christian Morals
Shaken by the horrors he saw there, he wrote this parable about the influence of political power in defining sanity.
When it's too hot or too rainy even to visit the park with the kids, a stash of arts and crafts supplies and a few treats extraordinaire may very well save your sanity.
The prisoner faked insanity to avoid confrontation with the jailhouse bully.
Is it recognizing the necessity of long-term fiscal sanity by keeping government spending from exceeding income?
Hence, for the most apparent, the most clearly defined, and the best understood foundation for a nosological scheme for insanity, we are forced to fall back upon the symptomatology of the disease—the apparent mental condition, as judged from the outward manifestations. The Mad Among Us
He and his wife finally had to move from their apartment just to preserve their sanity.
This is why The King is coming along as I need to have a point of sanity and reason to refer back to.
Upon witnessing a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo Alberto, Nietzsche threw his arms around the horse's neck and collapsed, never to return to full sanity.
But he did none of these things, and his abstention was the sign and measure of his coolness, of his sanity. The Combined Maze
Conversely, to forego what may prove to be one of the most important sources of intelligence of the war would be insanity itself. LOHENGRIN
The following is the report of a case by Drewry, of double (or, more strictly speaking, quadruple) athetosis, associated with epilepsy and insanity: ` ` The patient was a negro woman, twenty-six years old when she was admitted into this, the Central State (Va.) Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Accordingly, the psychiatry of the early twentieth century based its image of sanity on that model.
He and his wife finally had to move from their apartment just to preserve their sanity.
Because of widespread fears at the time that insanity was increasing, census enumerators were given special forms and extra pay to identify all severely mentally ill people, including querying neighbors of the person in question.
This production returns coherence, logic, and sanity to a masterpiece.
The odds are a barometer by which to measure your expertise and challenge your sanity.
A bit like tombstoning, only instead of jumping off cliffs into water, they jump into diets that are going to lose them nothing but their health and sanity.
Either way, the forensic psychiatrist employed by the programme, considered it all too likely her insanity might recur. Times, Sunday Times
May 14, 2009 at 7:22 am putz a shiny gold star on maus’s GHwP. you know the daffynition of insanity, don’t you? I can’t help but think - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Conversely, to forego what may prove to be one of the most important sources of intelligence of the war would be insanity itself. LOHENGRIN
My urge to prove my sanity made me gabble, and my gabbling disproved my claim.
It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it.
A third had been expelled from the College on the grounds of insanity. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
The court acquitted Campbell on the grounds of temporary insanity.
Thankfully, we reached port with our innards if not our sanity intact.
Philip used sometimes to declare that she had no sentiment; and then he doubted if he should be pleased with her after all if she were at all sentimental; and he rejoiced that she had, in such matters what he called the airy grace of sanity. The Gilded Age, Part 5.
Doing the same thing over and over again amounts to insanity. U.S. lawmaker calls for lifting of Cuba travel ban
Beelzebub is slowly entering the boys, and through the use of Jack as a minister of evil, delivering the boys to insanity and corruption.
These benighted souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their ‘sanity’ appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac revelers sweeps past them p. World Wide Mind
The judge will quiz jurors individually about their views on abortion and the insanity defense beginning Tuesday.
In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
Consider whereabouts thou art in Cebe's [III. 14] table, or that old philosophical pinax [III. 15] of the life of man; whether thou art still in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entered the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
I tried to assure her of my sanity and my health in all other aspects before continuing my little tale.
While certainly a lament, the ejaculation was also a rallying cry of sanity among the Irish voyagers.
Sport, like life, is about mastering the art of temporary insanity. Times, Sunday Times
Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I have to force myself to take time for my health and my sanity. Times, Sunday Times
Alcoholism is a disease that creates temporary madness and insanity. Drug addiction is a disease that destroys health and humanity. Dr T.P.Chia
The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will plead insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Great performance is about sanity and enjoyment as much as it is about focus and commitment. Times, Sunday Times
But seven months into his reign he fell ill, and he emerged from this as a megalomaniac - he may have lost his sanity, though this is doubtful.
But to that doctor I owe a portion of my sanity.
There are people in there who, by some miracle, have regained their sanity.
And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary.
I'd like to sleep for six months and ignore this pure insanity that we all call winter.
the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity
What you described as a punch was the sound of a fox's head being crushed, which is why Ailsa accused him of insanity. Fox Evil
Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity.
Stop the Insanity people, BHO is a charade!!!!!! kumari Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
The next day federal marshals brought him back to Baltimore, where he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
To me that is so disturbing that I think the case should be dismissed on the grounds of insanity.
The shock of confronting this new and more tangi - ble figure jerked Slorg back into half-sanity and bro - ken words sidled from his lips. Elric At The End of Time
The vast majority of psychiatric patients are responsible for their behaviour, both morally and legally, as shown by the vanishingly small numbers of individuals ever found not guilty by reason of insanity in court.
From a certain vantage, “the brief takes positions that from a political and policy point of view are hard to square with, well, sanity,” but an empty political gesture with minimal actual impact upon the operations of big and small businesses are probably precisely what Congress was aiming at. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Solicitor General Lays an Egg
More to the point, a full-strength, high-test spirituality propels a seeker toward sanity and wisdom.
Are they the product of a diseased mind, a sick imagination, a temporary lapse of sanity?
It's safest for this magazine's sanity if I substitute the words "chuffing" and "todd" for the concomitant seven- and four-letter words Bruce quietly drops everywhere, through habit rather than guile or anger; fricative and plosive, they're actually right in almost all contexts. Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash'
As I approached where our driveway should be, I was overcome with my bodily need to be home: to be safe from this insanity, to be under the hemlocks with my family where I could calm my heart and catch my breath and sooth my animal body.
Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to plead insanity.
And the law already punishes those found guilty of that insanity. The Sun
We have to put ecological sanity and human rights at the top of our list of priorities.
We need to bring sanity back to the law. The Sun
In her defense Halen alleged temporary insanity.
Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world. Whew!
Of course, this comes from the rebel psychologist for whom diagnostic psychiatry is an authoritarian priesthood, and ‘insanity’ an institutional dysphemism for ‘minority.’
Getting away at weekends is the only way I can retain my sanity.
Hannah was sanity, tenderness, comfort: Susie irritation and unhealthy ob session. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
Watching too much of this garbage can push you over the edge of sanity.
Louisiana, a defendant had been committed to a state mental hospital after a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The highly influential psychiatrist and philosopher Jaspers listed the functional psychoses as schizophrenia, manic - depressive insanity, and epilepsy.
Could a five-star hotel really save my sanity? Times, Sunday Times
When the Home Secretary reprieved Edmunds's death sentence on ground of insanity many believed he based this decision on her gender and class.
She pointedly quotes Adorno in reference to the relationship between insanity and creative impulse.
In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
Police said his crimes caused one victim to question her own sanity. The Sun
I would expect the defense to go that route, to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Mr. Helstone, both about France and England; and about revolutions, and regicides, and restorations in general; and about the divine right of kings, which you often stickle for in your sermons, and the duty of non-resistance, and the sanity of war, and -- ' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
He and his wife finally had to move from their apartment just to preserve their sanity.
The insanity of active "codependence" is just as gruesome a spectacle to behold as the addict's own downward spiral. Was the World Powerless to Stop Amy Winehouse?
Alan Sheriff is an outsider: his poet's soul has been hardened by loss and experience, but his wry sense of the absurd saves him from insanity.
Mercifully, commenter "harumph" pops by with a futile attempt to restore sanity: "Coleman's lead eroded all day Thursday as the Canvassing Board considered a pile of challenges brought entirely by the Coleman campaign. Fat nigger jokes, SDA-style.
This waterfall is just the latest drop where people have questioned my sanity.
However, he does admit there were times he doubted his own sanity.
If Stewart's liberalish newsman is the voice of sanity and Colbert's right-wing talk-show host is the voice of fear, and hundreds of thousands turn out to celebrate sanity, that's a powerful statement. Adele Stan: 4 Reasons Why Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Is Great for Progressives
A person doesn't pass into insanity when their situations are good.
Nordau took it from Bénédict Morel, a French psychiatrist, who was alarmed at what he considered accelerating cretinism and insanity. Bloodlust
The groom may simply have had a temporary lapse of sanity, and he may realize his error in a few months or years.
Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders.
It is time for a diet of sanity in New Zealand politics, and we will force-feed it to the doctrinaire weirdos over there on the Government benches as soon as they fly the white flag.
What people call goodness has to be kept in check just as carefully as what they call badness; for the human constitution will not stand very much of either without serious psychological mischief, ending in insanity or crime. Getting Married
Only the state of the sanity of the defendant's mind mattered, and that was the purview of men with education and experience.
It will take humungous hikes in fuel tax, with punishing electoral consequences, to wean us off the impulse to escape at least once a year from lives which we've made so hectic; we have to have a holiday to restore our sanity.
In folklore, a full moon is associated with insanity - hence the word lunacy - werewolves and all manner of unpleasant happenings. BBC News - Home
It was at this moment of insanity that the sheer impossibility of the situation came to him.
Claims that the woman invoked a loa to curse him with insanity are invalidated by a complete lack of proof that he ever became insane.
They came up with several designs for giant arks of sanity.
Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence.
It was as if his mind was a leaking vessel, his sanity seeping out like water.
But the oppressive atmosphere in his sound bunker takes its toll on his sanity. The Sun
The law should be repealed - and sanity restored. The Sun
It's hard to find victory or exit strategies or any other sanity in what's happening.
At his trial, his revolutionary defence of partial insanity succeeded and presented the government of the day with a problem. The Sun
The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence.
There was a streak of insanity in the family.
Suddenly, with a force propelled by sheer insanity, Charles lifted him bodily and pushed him over the railings.
In politics, even what may appear to be insanity is ultimately dictated by a definite objective logic.
Conversely, to forego what may prove to be one of the most important sources of intelligence of the war would be insanity itself. LOHENGRIN
Her father, an engineer, died of paresis (syphilitic insanity) when Hannah was seven, and episodic battles between Russian and German armies were fought near their home soon thereafter. Hannah Arendt.
But it will be a small miracle if they manage to retain their collective sanity on the way.
In a tremendous sequence, the archaeologic team appear to succumb to mass insanity as a result of exposure to the shaman's remains and undertake to revive him while getting high on his stash. Archive 2009-07-05
He attempted to plead insanity, but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane.
What will they try to measure next – lactational insanity? I'm one bad mother. I work | Viv Groskop
‘Okay that's enough information there, bucko,’ Torrie yelled from the other side of the wall but not looking, trying to keep what was left of her sanity.
Green Fairy on the insanity of pre-Christmas school rituals - Christingles, although I'm sure they were called pomanders.
It is with the mind-state which precedes the development of recognized form of insanity the therapeutist and the social philosopher are chiefly interested. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world. Whew!
Keenan's poetic "An Evil Cradling," which he describes as a literary attempt to "imprison" insanity on paper in the same way he held it at bay while in captivity, topped The Sunday Times of London's bestseller list for nine weeks last year. Best Sellers In Chains
I'll come to that presently; my immediate response, when Pinkerton sprang his mine, was to question his sanity and decline at the top of my voice, pointing out that if he didn't drum up Lyons instanter, Palmerston would have a fit, the Queen would be most displeased, we might well burn Washington again, and he, Pinkerton, would find himself selling matches on the street corner. THE NUMBERS
If repetition was the definition of insanity, millions would be certifiable each and every New Year.
He was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. The Sun
I think for my own sanity and emotional balance, that's the best tack I can take with it, really.
Acquitting a woman on ground of insanity may have saved her from the gallows, or a lengthy prison term, but it also stripped her crime of meaning.
The volume is a treasure-chest of nutcases, including poor Delia Bacon, who spent decades of her life, her sanity and a small fortune trying to prove that Shakespeare's works were written by her namesake Francis.
But sadly, that wee moment of sanity goosed his fight-or-flight adrenals, kayoed his nervous system and caused him to say the Obama team had run the most brilliant campaign since Nixon in 1972. Peter Mehlman: In No Particular Order....
Then again his sanity was a big question mark so what really happened to him probably isn't that sinister as a paranoid would have you believe.
Like a woman loosing all sanity, I began to laugh in hysterics.
Then again, you could always remember her for her infamous temporary insanity and overactive imagination.
This is really jsut a manefistation of a corrupt Godless nation that seems to be hell bent on allowing this made for TV insanity to paly out everyday. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
You crank up the intensity to the verge of insanity.
Site after site of gossip and comment so vile as to make you wonder about the sanity of the people who wrote it. Times, Sunday Times
There's something about this place that breeds great madness and insanity.
But the plea of insanity, with its vague test of responsibility, whose terms the juryman may construe for himself (or which his fellow-jurors may construe for him) offers an unlimited and fertile field for the Courts and Criminals
Having been in a room while doctors struggled to keep my child alive, I can vouch for the fact that trust is often the only lifeline to sanity.
For the sake of the health and sanity of the rest of us, his successor needs to make the system work. Times, Sunday Times
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson

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