Word: delirium
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After the seduction she fawns on Jean, then curses him, and finally settles into the resigned delirium that precedes her suicide. Miss Levine's long speech to Kristin, the household cook and Jean's fiancee, in which she rambles on the subject of escape to the South, is the high-point of the production...
...Redmond Barry, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, traitor, spy, gambler, spendthrift and all-round cad. He hounded the rich Lady Honoria Lyndon into marriage, taking her name as well as her fortune. The luck of Barry Lyndon finally ran out in a London prison, where he died of delirium tremens...
...With Senator Goldwater in command of the Republicans, the choice is between moving the country ahead with the Democrats or regressing with the Republicans." The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch banked on the possibility that Goldwater might prove too gamy for national consumption. "He arouses a certain degree of delirium among extreme conservatives," said the Post-Dispatch, "but there are not enough of them to win an election...
...important church sweeper. But even here some of the circumstances seem arbitrary. The spire's mysterious patroness turns out to have been the dead king's mistress, angling for immortality. The news that this woman also has supervised his rise in the church hastens Jocelin further into delirium...
...join him or to answer his impassioned letters. "Make fun of me," wrote Bonaparte. "Stay on in Paris, have lovers of whom the whole world may know, never write to me, and-for all that, I will only love you ten times more. If this is not madness, fever, delirium!" When Bonaparte sailed for Egypt, Josephine plunged into an affair with a cavalry officer nine years her junior, and through him accumulated a small fortune speculating in shoddy military supplies...