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The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
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Rash folly
Examples of madness in a Sentence
I feel my madness coming.
Was her madness already starting?
This is madness, Jonny.
The more the warlords used the magic for themselves, the worse their fates and the faster their madness came.
She'd survived another time, but she couldn't count on fate favoring her much longer, not when madness had begun to take its hold of her.
So long as it stands erect, its possessor is well, but if it falls from its position the misfortunes of ill-health and madness at once assail him.
In England he determined to "open the eyes of the people to the madness and stupidity of the government."
Having boasted that he could construct a machine for regulating the inundations of the Nile, he was summoned to Egypt by the caliph Hakim; but, aware of the impracticability of his scheme, and fearing the caliph's anger, he feigned madness until Hakim's death in 1021.
Union assistant General Secretary Gerry Morrissy said, " This is both cultural and commercial madness.
He has to rely on a kind stranger who takes him in despite his apparent madness.
Though it is madness to buy anything in Moscow now.
Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it.
Knowing how to relax during the holidays can help you through the madness and have a good time, no matter what difficult situations you may encounter.
The nights made him think fondly of his old friend, an ancient blind man who saved him from madness in the catacombs.
A work characterized by such strength, consistency and continuity of thought is not likely to have been composed "in the intervals of madness" as Jerome says.
A serpent in a lagoon near Gimbo-Amburi in Africa could cure madness; another, which haunted an Algerian well, embodied the soul of a Mahommedan saint and could cure sore eyes.
Orestes appears also as a central figure in various legends connected with his madness and purification, both in Greece and Asia.
The rivalries between the most powerful of these - the duke of Burgundy, who during the king's attacks of madness practically ruled the country, and the duke of Orleans - were a constant menace to peace.
Queen Isabeau, who had generally supported the Burgundian party, was now practically separated from her husband, whose madness had become pronounced.
Yet traces of a pre-deistic and animistic period survived here and there; for instance, in Arcadia we find the thunder itself called Zeus (ZEUs Kepavvos) in a Mantinean inscription, 2 and the stone near Gythium in Laconia on which Orestes sat and was cured of his madness, evidently a thunder-stone, was named itself Zeus Kainreoras, which must be interpreted as " Zeus that fell from heaven "; 3 we here observe that the personal God does not yet seem to have emerged from the divine thing or divine phenomenon.
Madness was settling into her at the scent and sight of his blood.
No; that is madness indeed; absolute madness.
Gridiron madness has never been so great.
Moreover, handing over 30-year contracts to private firms is pure madness.
This piece of midsummer madness is an all new production specially created for the LIFT Club.
There is still time to stop this motorway madness and invest the money saved in sensible alternatives instead.
Alone for consumer march madness the state where the the product spending.
A moment of summer madness, perhaps the heat of the British summer got to him.
Now, thanks to the madness of his legates, the lord pope is extremely annoyed.
There is little sanity to compare the madness against.
But the insistence with which Lucretius returns to the subject, and the horror with which he recalls the effects of such abnormal phenomena, suggest that he himself may have been liable to such hallucinations, which are said to be consistent with perfect sanity, though they may be the precursors either of madness or of a state of despair and melancholy.
And as the motive power of this formidable mechanism of force they could rely on the native suspiciousness of the Parisian populace, exaggerated now into madness by famine and the menace of foreign invasion.
Unwilling to go, he feigned madness, ploughing a field sown with salt with an ox and an ass yoked together; but Palamedes discovered his deceit by placing his infant child Telemachus in front of the plough; Odysseus afterwards revenged himself by compassing the death of Palamedes.
Báthory's indisputable genius must have been warped by a strain of madness.
She sometimes sounds solemn in the wrong places whilst overdoing the madness in an all too hysterical voice which the words do n't demand.
Does being sincere alleviate concerns about madness or suicidal tendencies?
Buying a simple piece of luggage isn't exactly a science, but there is method to the madness.
The allure of the beautiful, shiny packaging and shimmery, colorful products is enough to drive any woman to the brink of cash-spending madness.
Monster Joust Madness - Joust your way to notoriety in this anime war game.
If you are a relative or other loved one, see if you can have the teen stay with you for a time so he can escape the madness.
Senior serenade - A single cricket can drive you to madness with its chirping.
There is also a technical name for shopping addiction, called oniomania, which literally translates from Greek as the words "for sale" and "madness."
Fey voices the British and German princesses in the pinball machine game Medieval Madness (1997).
At first glance, Paris Hilton and Harvard are not much of a synonymous pairing, but further details uncover the method to the madness.
Years later, she played the unforgettable wheelchair-bound sister driven to madness by her real-life nemesis Bette Davis in the bizarre film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Mulholland Madness will close and reopen within a year as Goofy's Sky Skool, based on the Disney film Goofy's Glider.
There's action, there's stealth, there's multiplayer madness, there's Bond girls...
It's the holiday season and the most highly anticipated new Playstation 3 console has just been released, ushering a whole new holiday season of video game gift madness.
Notable releases include Jetpac, Sabre Wulf, The Staff of Karnath, Entombed, Outlaws, Dragonskulle, Marble Madness, Wizards & Warriors, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, Super Off Road, Narc and several Battletoads titles.
And of course, it will be able to play movies and music, network with your computer, and connect to other Xbox systems for competitive and cooperative gaming madness.