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Sex and the Military
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...programs against sexual diseases were instituted and prophylaxis mandated. As Brandt concludes, these policies “unhinged the alliance with moral reformers at home.” During World War II, educational programs much like those of the previous...
Edward I
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...notable. (He took the cross again in 1287, but the matter of the Scottish succession and the outbreak of war with France unhinged all plans for departure.) But he could be cruel, as when he imprisoned Bruce's sister Mary, the countess of Buchan...
Cambridge, Richard of Conisborough, 1st earl of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...by Henry V: it was really a courtesy title, recognizing Richard as heir to his childless brother Duke Edward. Apparently unhinged by resentment, Richard devised hare-brained seditious schemes in conversation with the Northumberland knight Thomas Gray...
Basil I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...But in 879 Constantine, the eldest and Basil's favorite, died, and Basil was left emotionally shattered and mentally unhinged. Increasingly manipulated by Photius and alienated from his heir, Leo, Basil died on Aug. 29, 886, reportedly of a hunting...
Akira Kurosawa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...epic Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). He resigned amid arguments over control of the project and rumors that he was mentally unhinged. Kurosawa could not even get financing for his next film, Dodes' ka-den (1970), his first in color, only completing...
"Imperator"
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Such a conclusion, in the face of all evidence and fair inference, is one which none could accept save a perverted and unhinged mind; least of all one who knows us as you do now." "Imperator" and Lenora Piper In 1897 Imperator and his band supposedly...
Sevastopol, sieges of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...350 tanks). On 8 May, a landing executed under air cover by small craft of the type used for river crossings completely unhinged Kozlov's front, and ten days sufficed to finish the operation. More than 170,000 Red Army men were taken prisoner, largely...
Erewhon Revisited
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...new religion is organized by two cynical exploiters, professors Hanky and Panky. Once again Higgs's life is threatened, but again he escapes and, after further bewildered wanderings in Erewhon, returns, half unhinged, to England.
Sacks, Oliver
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...school, Braefield, in the English Midlands. The headmaster there, Sacks wrote in Uncle Tungsten , "seemed to have become unhinged by his own power." Sacks and his brother were physically and psychologically abused. The food packages their parents sent...
Theodor W. Adorno
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Kierkegaard, having rejected Georg Hegel's grandiose systematization of philosophy, retreated into pure subjectivity of his soul unhinged from the concrete social reality. Adorno became associated with the Institute for Social Research, which was established...

Dictionary entries related to "unhinged"

unhinge
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x259;nˈhinj / • v. [ tr. ] 1. [usu. as adj. ] ( unhinged ) make (someone) mentally unbalanced: I thought she must be unhinged by grief. ∎  deprive of stability or fixity; throw into disorder...
brachiopod
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...brākēəˌpäd; ˈbrak- / • n. any marine invertebrate of the phylum Brachiopoda, esp. a fossil one, having an unhinged bivalve shell and a ciliated feeding arm.
Harlow, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...intervened sooner to save her life?) and her second husband Paul Bern's suicide (did he kill himself to be free of his unhinged common-law wife Dorothy Milette?) resurface periodically in well-researched books such as Platinum Girl (1991). Although...
Cambridge, Richard of Conisborough, 1st earl of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...paid until after his clandestine marriage to Anne Mortimer, sister of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, in 1408. Apparently unhinged by resentment, Richard devised hare‐brained seditious schemes and persuaded himself that Edmund Mortimer shared...
reel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...such a device: a reel of copper wire. ∎  a part of a movie: in the final reel he is transformed from unhinged sociopath into local hero. ∎  a device for winding and unwinding a line as required, in particular a fishing...

Thesaurus entries related to "unhinged"

unhinged
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus unhinged • adjective  he was completely unhinged just because we were a few minutes late synonyms : deranged, demented, unbalanced, unglued, crazed, mad, insane, disturbed, out of one's mind, out of one's tree; informal...
insane
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...demented, non compos mentis , out of one's mind; inf. unhinged, crazed, crazy, non compos.   2. he's insane...mad, mad as a hatter, raving mad, out of one's mind, unhinged, not all there, crazy; inf. bonkers, cracked, crackers...
unsound
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...questionable, dubious, tenuous, suspect, fallacious, fallible; informal iffy.   3. of unsound mind synonyms : disordered, deranged, disturbed, demented, unstable, unbalanced, unhinged, addled, insane. antonym: sane.
unbalanced
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...adjective   1. he is unbalanced and dangerous synonyms : unstable, mentally ill, deranged, demented, disturbed, unhinged, insane, mad, out of one's mind; informal crazy, loopy, loony, nuts, nutso, nutty, cracked, bushed, screwy...
manic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...manic grin synonyms : mad, insane, deranged, demented, maniacal, lunatic, wild, crazed, demonic, hysterical, raving, unhinged, unbalanced; informal crazy. antonym: sane.   2. manic activity synonyms : frenzied, feverish, frenetic, hectic...
deranged
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English deranged • adjective   synonyms : mentally deranged, disturbed, unbalanced, unhinged, touched, insane, mad, crazy, crazed, demented, irrational, of unsound mind, non compos mentis , berserk, frenzied...
unstable
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...shaky, wobbly, tottery, unsafe, unreliable, insecure, precarious.   2. unstable people synonyms : unbalanced, unhinged, irrational, deranged, mentally ill, crazed, insane, mad.   3. emotionally unstable synonyms : unbalanced...
demented
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...x2022; adjective   synonyms : insane, mad, crazy, crazed, deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, unhinged, unbalanced, touched, non compos mentis , maniacal, manic, frenzied, distraught, foolish, idiotic, crackbrained...
delirious
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...but had lucid intervals synonyms : incoherent, raving, babbling, irrational; feverish, frenzied; deranged, demented, unhinged, mad, insane, out of one's mind.   2. the crowd was delirious during the concert synonyms : ecstatic, euphoric...
beside
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...worry synonyms : distraught, overcome, out of one's mind, frantic, desperate, distracted, at one's wits' end, frenzied, wound up, worked up; hysterical, unhinged, mad, crazed. beside the point.  See point 1 .

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LIBERALS UNHINGED IN ATTACKS ON GOP
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 10/14/2008; 700+ words ; Three years ago a book entitled "Unhinged" contended that left-wingers were becoming "unhinged" in their hatred of conservatives. Observing...your candidate, but please do not become unhinged with hatred. It's unhealthy for you and...
Cebar Lands Record Deal Without Coming Unhinged
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/11/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...multicultural rockers began work on "That Unhinged Thing," its superb debut for New Jersey...when there would be a product. "That Unhinged Thing" was set in motion in 1989, when...It's the second track on "That Unhinged Thing.") "We received a number of...
Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, by Michelle Malkin, 256 pages, hardcover...Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2005. The opening volley of Unhinged asserts that The American Left is unwell, and the following 231 pages leave...
Unhinged and Low Flying
Magazine article from: The Stranger; 11/19/2003; ; 417 words ; ...the self-deceiving lout he creates hasn't a clue. In Unhinged and Low Flying, revived and revised from its premiere at the...interludes of guitarist Aaron Loidhamer to relieve his spell. Unhinged and Low Flying is smart, savage, and stinging, and worth...
Games reviews: Board meeting will leave console fans pie-eyed; TRIVIAL PURSUIT UNHINGED ##### PC/XBOX.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 10/29/2004; 479 words ; ...Ones. There are three modes - Classic, Unhinged, and Flash. Classic is as it sounds...ponchos were in vogue first time round. Unhinged is pure console: same board, wedges...choose to re-position all the pieces. Unhinged also adds a betting system, where you...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 10/8/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...in her new touring piece, Marjorie's World Unhinged, but comes badly unhinged in the process. Even with twists in the telling...gilbert@independent.co.uk 'Marjorie's World Unhinged':Lakeside, Nottingham (0115 846 7777) Tues...
Dear Linda..: Am I unhinged for my act of revenge?(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 9/3/2002; 700+ words ; ...made me feel even guiltier. I worry that I might be becoming unhinged. JK, Dinas Powys A OH, you're bad!! O.K. What you...real harm has been done. And I don't think that you are `unhinged' at all. You've spent a year and a half in a relationship...
'Their entire world's come unhinged'
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/3/2007; ; 471 words ; ...Post 08-03-2007 Headline: 'Their entire world's come unhinged' Byline: RORY KRESS Edition; Daily Section: News Page...re scared, they're lost, their entire world's come unhinged." According to Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek, who...