madness

Trying to fine-tune all that to a desired end is not only a form of madness but doomed to failure.

But the events provoking this madness are absolutely current.

So in the vein of March Madness, here are my picks for the Final Four of the 2014 GOP championship of crazy.

If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness.

The madness officially begins tomorrow: a week of fashion, partying, and celebrities on the front row.

They joined in bands of youths and maidens and whirled down the Avenue in Bacchic madness.

The hotel-keepers thought I was the American tourist overtaken by that final madness they had always anticipated.

Cards, however, I regard as a passing madness; it merely means that even yet we have not enough to do.

But Jack was at that day a reckless fellow, and he lived to be passionately sorry for his splenetic madness.

Even her father's well-known madness for things of art could scarcely atone to his child for this indignity.