derangement

Example Sentences

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"With Miss Havisham, it's quite interesting to have that at least as 5% of the character: ' I know what I'm doing. I know what this is.' It's not derangement, it's not insanity."

From Salon

“Breathe” is stormy, even by Oates’s dark domestic-gothic standards, dramatizing Michaela’s grief as it curdles into disorientation and then utter derangement.

From Washington Post

It’s hard not to think some significant derangement may be happening — a rush of people, stuck in global crises that their brains apparently refuse to reckon with, acting out in all the usual ways.

From New York Times

The underlying constitutional derangement pertained to the way members of Congress and the president were eager to endorse each other’s authority without exercising their own.

From New York Times

These patients might endure derangement of their healing process and develop leaks or malforming organ healing that requires a lifetime of surgical interventions and therapies.

From Seattle Times