unbalanced mind

It isn’t difficult to imagine how an unbalanced mind could be influenced by overheated rhetoric by people in positions of authority.

Indeed, he saw pursuit of a single truth as a symptom of an unbalanced mind, tantamount to superstition!

In much the same way as Mr. Zender teased out the color oppositions in his orchestration, Mr. Bostridge created starkly delineated voices for the conversations that mostly take place in the narrator’s lovesick and unbalanced mind.

One problem is the risk of physical violence — the possible influence of unhinged rhetoric on an unbalanced mind.

“My greatest fear is that this could be used by terrorists,” Fouts said, specifically citing homegrown killers such as Adam Lanza, who in 2012 killed 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. “Imagine what an unbalanced mind would do if he had a flamethrower.”