insanity
精神错乱,疯癫,精神错乱症,精神病
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plural in·san·i·ties.
- : the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind.
- : Law. such unsoundness of mind as frees one from legal responsibility, as for committing a crime, or as signals one's lack of legal capacity, as for entering into a contractual agreement.
- : Psychiatry. psychosis.
- : extreme foolishness: Trying to drive through that traffic would be pure insanity.a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.: We've heard decades of insanities in our political discourse.
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ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky called the Bucs “the walking definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
The definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result — is an apt description of the post-election punditry.
The insanity of 2020 has, among other things, hammered home some basic truths about the art of management, starting with the fact that it was evolving rapidly long before a pandemic upended workplaces around the world.
It’s insanity, but Whirlpool just sold more bathtubs in a recession than in an expansion.
I just wanted to get out and be one of the first ones to cast my vote to hopefully end the insanity we are living in under the current administration.
AIDS insanity: When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.
Insanity, after all, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, right?
But as Nietzsche once wrote, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”
Only one first world country would allow such insanity to continue.
On appeal in 2006, she was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity and remanded to a psychiatric hospital.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and .