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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

On another occasion, losing patience with Pascal, he called him "a half-lunatic man of genius."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

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

But the good conduct of Babo, hardly more than the ill-behavior of others, seemed to withdraw the half-lunatic Don Benito from his cloudy languor.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

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