Sentences with phrase «victims of madness»

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Now, before you question whether I am a victim of the stress entrepreneurship took on my mental health — which, jokes aside, is a real, largely unaddressed problem for professionals today — let me assure you: There was a method to my madness.

Sometimes in my reverie Montag would stop cold in the middle of the lap and drown: dead of an exploded memory, the victim of my nostalgic madness.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

Shot in stark black and white, the only glimpse of colour we receive is the girl in the red dress, which is a brilliant device to focus the attention on the individual innocence of the victim amidst the madness of the Ghetto clearances and mass executions.

A motif in which Gunther, having taken a new victim, plays a round of Russian roulette before quivering his lips in expectation, murmuring «So be it» and putting out one more «Apartment for Rent» sign, gives his madness some psychotic structure and provides a neat hook for Kinski to hang his nervous performance on.

And it was on Iririki where, on the eve of his sixth birthday, Frater fell victim to «le coup de bamboo... a mild form of tropical madness for which, luckily, there is no cure,» and which has compelled him, again and again, to return to the «seeding, breeding, buzzing, barking, fluttering, squawking, germinating, growing» deep tropics.

As time runs out on another innocent victim's life, Eve's investigation will take her into the rarified circle that her husband Roarke travels in — and into the perverted heart of madness...

The Big Short is an excellent book about the mortgage meltdown, those that gamed the rating agencies, those that fell victim to false beliefs and greed, and those that profited by creating investments to short the madness of the crowd.

3:45 — 4:45 pm Madness of the Present: Abstraction's Radical Possibilities: A conversation between Adam Pendleton and Adrienne Edwards Focusing on Adam Pendleton's art of the past two years, from his installation for the Belgian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale to his recent suite of paintings entitled Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy), Pendleton and curator Adrienne Edwards explore abstraction as a platform for revolutionary possibilities in art and politics.

This is best portrayed by his masterpiece «The Autumn of Central Paris» (1972 — 73), wherein philosopher Walter Benjamin is portrayed, as both the orchestrator and victim of historical madness.

They see the government falling victim to the madness of all the hysteria - they want the federal grants!

Recent pronouncements from the Ontario Court of Appeal overturning some mandatory minimum sentences and extraordinarily frank outbursts from some trial judges on the madness of mandatory victim fine surcharges (often levied against the homeless, destitute and mentally ill) have set the stage for what is sure to be an interesting 2014 docket.

But many, many more were victims of the financial collapse brought on by this mortgage madness, including those who lost their jobs in downsizing, or whose wages were reduced to retain their employment, or whose spouses were laid off in the same cutback frenzy.