nuthouse

Example Sentences

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“Romeo and Juliet,” which had its North American premiere on Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, combines the brooding sexual melancholy of “Spring Awakening” and the nuthouse authoritarianism of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

"Holy Motors" - French, fantastical and nuthouse crazy, Leos Carax's film might seem the stuff of pretentious art house.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2012

The real sticking point is that Brody had Carrie removed from her job and put in the nuthouse.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

An A-list B-movie homage about a war veteran sealed inside a Massachusetts nuthouse?

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2012

Railroad Tommy had given him a janitor’s job to save him from the poorhouse, workhouse, or nuthouse, one.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison