He was evidently mad, as mad as a March hare; but his madness seemed only the harmless lunacy of extreme old age.

The proper name for them is sheer organized lunacy.

And, as I have said, his limited, but very sincere lunacy concentrates chiefly in a desire to destroy two ideas, the twin root ideas of rational society.

And she might have succeeded in making herself salable through incipient lunacy, if through no other way, had she been able to maintain her role long enough.

I dare not avow it; and if there were a third, he would assuredly be convicted of incurable lunacy, though on all other points he were as cold-blooded as the President of the Academy or the Vivisector-General."

You have the common-sense to treat it as if it had never been; and really I am tempted to believe that it was literal lunacy.

Of all the poets, perhaps, he alone has portrayed the mental diseases, melancholy, delirium, lunacy, with such inexpressible and, in every respect, definite truth, that the physician may enrich his observations from them in the same manner as from real cases.

In the last century and the beginning of this, our present preoccupation with Botticelli would have passed for a mild lunacy, because he has none of the qualities then most in vogue and most enthusiastically studied, and because the moment in the history of culture he so faithfully represents, was then but little understood.

" Niafer was of course reflecting: "This is very foolish and dear of him, and I shall be compelled, in mere decency, to pretend to corresponding lunacies for the first month or so of our marriage.

Rumour had prepared him to know the place when he saw it, nothing for its stupendous lunacy.

Some I found labouring under the last stage of a nervous consumption; others under a dangerous and incurable lunacy.

And the worst of harmless lunacy was that it might develop at any moment into harmful lunacy.