derangement

Example Sentences

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The chair of the judges, Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said the work was "bold" and "engaging" with a sense of "delirious derangement".

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

Where his alleged co-conspirators displayed varying levels of shock, despair, and derangement, Trump glowered at the camera, creating an indelible photo.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2023

"With Miss Havisham, it's quite interesting to have that at least as 5% of the character: ' I know what I'm doing. I know what this is.' It's not derangement, it's not insanity."

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

“Breathe” is stormy, even by Oates’s dark domestic-gothic standards, dramatizing Michaela’s grief as it curdles into disorientation and then utter derangement.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

Everyone could hear, couldn’t they? the derangement in his voice.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles