"Collective madness," per Paulo Coelho

Usage examples of sanity.

In the barouche on the ride home, she could only question her own sanity at ever taking Ruark Beauchamp as husband.

In some ways, he was the most powerful Hortator here, because the special psychological uniformity of the Invariants, the so-called Protocols of Sanity, ensured that all the populations of the Cities in Space would follow his lead.

Norberg was a confirmed monologuist, and so Boadicea was not called upon every day to speak up for reason and sanity.

The picture of that monoplane skimming down the sky, with the nameless terrors flying as swiftly beneath it and cutting it off always from the earth while they gradually closed in upon their victim, is one upon which a man who valued his sanity would prefer not to dwell.

The way Montero was watching her right now made her question her sanity in standing up to him.

We wanted to set up safeguards, though, so Scarle spent the night learning the depressive neuroses Hale said he could retreat into to protect his sanity if the going got rough.

They scampered like lunatics beneath the hidden moon, every bit of ice between them and Penultima Thule an affront to their sanity.

The reintegration of her personality was surely complete by now, but if she had gone completely around the bend into full-blown psychosis, he did not want to risk his own sanity by reading her mind.

I learned much about the power of scapegoating by watching their quiet hatred of me as they grimaced through the testimony regarding my sanity, my finances, my reputation in the community, and my sexual life with their eldest child.

The shoya was prepared, aware the thread between a sudden, berserk attack and sanity was stretched to breaking, shishi never to be trusted, one hand not far from his sleeve pocket.

She possessed a sultriness, a sensuality, and an appeal that kept him wrapped in knots, until he questioned his sanity.

The unassociated waves of unrehearsed madmen, little children incensed with fury, a dementia, their parents disassociated with all normal social significance, forgetting and blanking out reason and sanity.

We are together, and this reassurance was all that kept her from losing her grasp on sanity in that terrifying aeon of unpassing, timeless nothingness.

Metria, amazed by the assurance and sanity of her crazy worser self, which was not at all true to form, subsided.

Furthermore, after being told specifically by the Cheshire Cat that the Hatter and the March Hare are both mad, Alice, when she meets them in her next adventure, remains unin-structed and stubbornly persists in her futile attempts to relate their crazy, disordered actions to her old notions of order and sanity.