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单词 method in one's madness
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method in one's madness
b. method in one's madness (also variants of this expression, normally with allusion to quot. 1604 at sense 3a): reason, orderliness, or sense underlying one's apparent irrationality, folly, or stupidity.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun] > basis in reason > of behaviour
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method in one's madness1845
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 208 Though this be madnesse, yet there is method in't . View more context for this quotation
1688 T. D'Urfey Fool's Preferment i. i. 4 Method in Madness, Grace even in Distraction: I'll never leave him, 'till, by Art or Prayer, I have restor'd his Senses to their Office.
1766 E. Griffith Double Mistake i. ii. 7 There is method in your madness, Emily.
1845 E. A. Poe Gold-bug in Tales 18 My friend, about whose madness I now saw, or fancied that I saw, certain indications of method.
1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xxix. 241 A fear of completely knocking up..induced me to preserve some little method in my madness.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 128 I have usually found that there was method in his madness.
1911 C. S. H. Brereton & F. Rothwell tr. H. L. Bergson Laughter i. 2 The comic spirit has a logic of its own, even in its wildest eccentricities. It has a method in its madness.
1922 G. K. Chesterton Man who knew too Much 110 He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad being methodical.
1953 A. Huxley Let. 21 July (1969) 680 There is, in the long run (at least I hope so), some kind of method in my madness.
1960 Blackwood's Mag. July 72 By the time they..realise that there is crafty method in their opponent's apparent madness he has won the match.
1988 Jerusalem Post 7 Oct. 7 The breakers of the law of the land have become the makers of their own law of anarchy. No doubt there is method in their madness.
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