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Yet for all his power, he lived a sunless, joyless, half-lunatic life in those same hideaways, a virtual prisoner walled in by his own crippling fears and weaknesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man who is a perfectly normal and agreeable citizen in his own environment becomes a suspicious half-lunatic when placed in circumstances uncomfortable and unaccustomed.

From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by White, Stewart Edward

He filled every one with his own half-lunatic life; but it was not expressed in destruction, but rather in a dizzy and toppling construction.

From Manalive by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Then she fled to Switzerland; and, had not her flight been shared by the Chevalier de Rohan, one of the handsomest men in France, one could hardly have blamed an escape from a half-lunatic husband.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace

At these words the Spaniard turned upon the American one of his sudden, staring, half-lunatic looks; then, relapsing into his torpor, answered, "Doubtless, doubtless, Señor."

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman