madhouse

• “The six weeks that finished last year and began this (1796), your very humble servant spent very agreeably in a madhouse, at Hoxton.” These are his words when writing to Coleridge Mary Lamb had previously been repeatedly attacked by the same dreadful disorder; and this now broke out afresh in a sudden burst of acute madness. —  Charles Lamb
• They took him to the madhouse, and perhaps he is there still. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
• Only a second act scene in a madhouse was unconvincing, and the last 20 minutes felt terribly rushed - mainly a problem in the writing, as Wheeler tries almost frantically, and melodramatically, to wrap everything up. —  Rochester City Newspaper
• D.C., will be a madhouse, and the experience will be fraught with hassles (like finding a restroom). —  Infoworld News
• If Washington were not a madhouse, the Democrats would have themselves kicked Frank off the committee. —  Tammy Bruce

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