Sentences with phrase «mind of madness»

Even so, this obsessive attention to detail and insistence on the past puts me in mind of madness.

This video, entitled In the Mind of Madness, introduces the inventor Piero, who plays a pivotal role in Corvo's story.

Not exact matches

She has explored bipolar disorder and her own experience of it in two previous books: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness and Touched with Fire: Manic - Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.

As the superior in relation to its mental inferior, or as an older person in relation to a child, can press its claim to such an extreme that it ends by actually weakening the mind of the mentally inferior or the child, so also the Eternal can in the imagination of an excitable person make an attempt to push the temporal into madness.

i actually enjoy people losing there mind to transfer madness... some of you lot have been comedic gold

and bearing in mind if it werent for a moment of madness and a stupid penalty we again would have reached the semi-finals.

As mentioned, he scored and assisted against a hopeless QPR, who we should have destroyed, had Giroud not dipped his little mind in a moment of madness.

Throughout March Madness, staying injury - free was likely on the minds of many of the players and coaches as their teams moved closer to championship games.

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery Barbara K. Lipska with Elaine McArdle

He is the author of more than 1000 journal articles and several books including Uses of Marijuana (1971), Madness and the Brain (1974), The Troubled Mind (1976), Biological Aspects of Abnormal Behavior (1980), Drugs and the Brain (1986), and Brainstorming (1989).

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness ($ 9; amazon.com)

Douglass is the Cofounder of Summer Solstice, Yoga in Times Square / Mind over Madness.

This unkindness is usually attributed to an inexplicable, temporary insanity on HAL's part, the point of said attribution usually being something interesting about the potential for madness even in purely rational artificial minds, or — roughly the opposite idea — likening insanity to a state of mechanical failure.

A combination of Aronofsky's Pi (doing the «math = god = madness» equation much better, I should add), Good Will Hunting, Marathon Man, and eventually Drop Dead Fred, A Beautiful Mind ultimately outsmarts itself by blurring reality and fiction so awkwardly that when a pivotal uplift sequence occurs towards the end, one is left wondering for a time whether that, too, is some kind of delusion.

His Mr. Parcher reminds a good deal of the evil doctors in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch; between this character and James Horner's score (a rip - off of Howard Shore's work with David Cronenberg), A Beautiful Mind invites undeserved comparisons to Cronenberg's The Fly and his adaptation of Naked Lunch: reclusive genius finds love even as he disintegrates into the madness of his ambition.

The final shot is the stuff of nightmares, albeit not in the conventional sense — it delivers nothing but the implication that madness begins once the mind rejects its own inherent darkness.

- Publisher's Weekly «Readers in search of a crash course on the Bloomsbury circle and the machinations of Woolf's fevered mind will appreciate Vincent's attempts to illuminate both, but her dark portrait of Woolf's agonizing journey through a life marked by psychic pain will hold the most appeal for those already familiar with this sad story of genius and madness.»

But it is also a remarkably nuanced novel whose currents run much deeper, delving into the minds of four characters: Aguilar, a husband passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity: Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper - class Colombian family who is caught in the throes of madness; Midas, a drug - trafficker and money - launderer, who is Agustina's former lover; and Nicolás, Agustina's grandfather.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence — whether much that is glorious — whether all that is profound — does not spring from disease of thought — from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

An exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about the opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the line between genius and madness.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

Author: David Dobbs Bio: Contributing editor to Scientific American Mind; writer for publications like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Scientific American; author of Reef Madness (Pantheon), The Great Gulf (Island Press), The Northern Forest (Chelsea Green) Kindle Single: «My Mother's Lover,» $ 1.99 (6/2011).

They will do anything necessary to keep the pills coming and to stave off the creeping phobias, intense sexual impulses, and all - consuming madness that lurk on the edges of their minds.

From the hustle and bustle of Bangkok and the madness of the Full Moon Party in Koh Phangan to the tranquil lakes of Khao Sok National Park and the postcard perfect beaches of the Gulf & Andaman coasts, the sheer contrast is mind blowing.

The other favorite of mine was The Wolf Queen, a biography of Queen Potema in which its suggested she causes the madness of King Pelagius by giving him an enchanted necklace which slowly destroys his mind.

When the rescue party itself is kidnapped and held prisoner in the Rhombus, Raz is immobilized and must use only his psychic powers to reunite his friends, reveal the identity of the mysterious kidnapper, and free Truman before the madness of the Rhombus consumes all their minds!

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker invites you to explore the shadow reality that your patients inhabit — a world full of paranormal strangeness and horrors that go bump in your head, where all you have to rely on is your own mind.

But in all seriousness, my still - maturing mind was seriously hyped for this game, which was the first game I can ever really remember having any hype around its upcoming release — this, and its younger sibling, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which I also happily claim as another favorite of mine, though I was much more hyped for «Mario Madness.»

It concerns madness and sanity, among whose cast of troubled minds Laing is revealed as another pursued by demons, and it pithily observes that the definitions of schizophrenia are so all - encompassing — and such a mish - mash — that anyone might be sectioned should a psychiatrist be of a mind to commit them.

Surely it was the madness of this war, not deafness, that drove Goya into the darkest regions of his mind.

Not so long ago, just 50 years to be exact, my father was posted at Poona, then a small Army cantonment town four hours away from the mind - numbing madness of the big city of Bombay.