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Sometimes, you might be swept up in Mikey’s brazen, half-demented self-confidence.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Shaffer’s “Amadeus” adopts the same dynamic, although there the elderly, half-demented Salieri merely believes that he has killed Mozart—a self-accusatory metaphor for his poisonous intent.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

That’s not Gore Vidal; that’s a sick, half-demented old man.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2015

Baughman and Durkee show off serious vocal skills, and through all the insanity Palka keeps the perfect expression on her face-- half-hopeful, half-demented.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2010

Only a soldier whose nerves had been steeled in battle could have looked upon the half-demented man so quietly, for he presented a terrible spectacle.

From The Earth Trembled by Roe, Edward Payson