insane asylum
noun
now usually offensive
: a hospital for people with mental illness : a mental hospital
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Still ahead of her were European wanderings; the death of her youngest son, Tad (from pleurisy, at eighteen); and a brief confinement in an Illinois insane asylum.
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Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Not to mention, both songs’ music videos take place in an insane asylum.
—Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
In Puscifer, any idea can totally change without any preciousness, and everybody is on board — not unlike an insane asylum.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever behind the ominous Blue Door.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
For Fester, getting committed to an insane asylum is a total cakewalk.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an enormous, multitiered factory crane that lurches over the cast and audience throughout the show: air-dropping Sweeney's death-dealing barber chair, and at one point, doubling as an insane asylum.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Not to mention, both songs’ music videos take place in an insane asylum.
—Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
In Puscifer, any idea can totally change without any preciousness, and everybody is on board — not unlike an insane asylum.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever behind the ominous Blue Door.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
For Fester, getting committed to an insane asylum is a total cakewalk.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of Mimi Lien's shapeshifting scenic design is an enormous, multitiered factory crane that lurches over the cast and audience throughout the show: air-dropping Sweeney's death-dealing barber chair, and at one point, doubling as an insane asylum.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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