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MADNESS

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madness substantiv

1. nebunie, demenţă, scrânteală, sminteală;

sheer madness nebunie curată;

in a fit of madness a) într-un acces de nebunie; b) (fig_.) într-un moment de nebunie.

2. prostie, tâmpenie.

3. nebunie, mânie, furie, turbare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was a madness, but she refused to consider the madness.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

A madness comes up in my brain even now as I think of it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I met one as I came—Madness in such weather!—absolute madness!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It is madness to think of it.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What sweet madness has seized me?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

"Midsummer madness!" snorted Summerlee.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Down we thundered together, all shouting, I believe, at the top of our voices in the madness of the moment; but still we were drawing steadily away, and we were almost clear of the leaders when we flew on to the bridge.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Madness, anyhow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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