lunatic asylum
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Jackson played the lunatic asylum inmate who finds herself acting the role of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of the French revolutionary, Jean Marat.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
Like so many historic geniuses, he went uncelebrated in his own time, dying in disgrace as the inmate of a lunatic asylum.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2021
He is also, as the first sentence of “The Tin Drum” tells us, an inmate in a lunatic asylum.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019
According to other letters in the same collection, Dickens also had what might have seemed an ideal connection: a friendship with Dr. Thomas Harrington Tuke, a psychiatrist who ran a private lunatic asylum near London.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2019
Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
