Sentences with phrase «lunatic asylum»

McCutchen took the photograph at the Trans - Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia along with many other potential submissions.

The Babcock building of the South Carolina State Hospita l, formerly known as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, was built between 1857 and 1885.

Housed in a nineteenth - century lunatic asylum, the Museum Dr Guislain, meanwhile, explores the fascinating - and occasionally disturbing - history of psychology.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PC, PS4) Not many video games devote themselves seriously to exploring issues in mental health (murderous cackling villains and games set in scary lunatic asylums don't count) and still fewer attempt to do so via a swordfighting game set in the eighth century featuring a psychotic Pict with PTSD.

William Hogarth immortalised 18th - century Bedlam, as London's infamous lunatic asylum Bethlem Royal Hospital was nicknamed, in his painting of voyeurs from the world of the «sane» peering at its tragic denizens with their paper crowns and shaven heads.

Window: Patriciu Calimente The Provincial Lunatic Asylum was designed very much in the style of a grand estate at the edge of the urban centre.

With much of it coming from horses» tails or cut off the patients at lunatic asylum or stolen from corpses.

«The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from ancient Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.»

Presumably he would be executed or sent to the lunatic asylum, in short, he would have become unhappy in relation to so - called reality — in another sense I can well think that Abraham made him happy, for he that labors does not perish.

She often visited a man confined to a lunatic asylum.

There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling - halls, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experiences of passion in every form in his body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than textbooks a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.

«A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.»

Crazy Carl wants the Republican Party to be ultra right, or out of existence in NYS, and unless the ineffectual Cox can stand up to Crazy Carl and his lunatic asylum vision of the NYS Republican Party it's more likely going to be the Republican Party is declared unviable and the Tea Party gets a chance to move in to their headquarters.

In 1828, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals.

Set during the civil war, the wife of a slave owning plantation, is sentenced to the lunatic asylum on Sibella Island.

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

A bird cage from a lunatic asylum recalls confined inmates.

Several decades later, in the late 70s, she applied a similar touch to architecture, casting latex impressions of her parent's bedroom, her grandparents» house, a lunatic asylum, or simply her bedroom's floor or radiator.

Ronald Bladen, Light Year (Garden), 1979 Painted aluminum, 80 x 156 x 90 inches Edition 1 of 3 Ronald Bladen: Sculpture of the 1960s & 1970s Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, October 16 — November 26, 2008 «The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

She trained at Hornsey School of Art in 1939, a place she later described being «as remote from art as a lunatic asylum».