How To Use Insomniac In A Sentence
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Old guys spend more time sitting up late after the family's asleep, and in these hours your old guy will plan and replan his upcoming expedition, put new laces on his wading shoes, tie flies, dress in all his Arctic gear in order to see what it's like to move around in, call another insomniac old guy and check out up-to-the-minute river conditions, and so on.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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The insomniac is unable to get sufficient sleep for their daily needs.
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This is especially-true for insomniacs, who seem to have a lower tolerance to the stimulating effects of caffeine than most people.
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I was told last night by one of our choirmen about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac, who lays awake at night wondering if there's a dog…
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So if we take a look at the brain of an insomniac do we find anything different from the brain of a sound sleeper?
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Only a minority of insomniacs ever mentions sleep loss to a doctor, though, and then it's only in the context of other problems more likely to get addressed.
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Or, to put a positive spin on that idea, you might consider life as something that happens when you can't get to sleep - ergo, insomniacs live life to a greater degree.
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But peace comes like sleep does to an insomniac.
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Enter Insomniac Movie Theater, where I subject myself to some of the worst, campiest and outright terrible movies the world has to offer … and the occasional cult classic.
Insomniac Movie Theater: Commando » Scene-Stealers
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And that's what we call insomniac math — three plus three equals eight.
Late Night with Richie
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So, while I liked the picture for what it was, it's one that I really have to see again - and preferably not in the high-octane insomniac setting of a film festival - to really digest and pass judgment on.
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It didn't reach a U.S. viewership until the '90s, where it delighted insomniacs and stoners on late-night television.
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Several weeks on the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in an out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail.
40 entries from September 2007
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insomniac nights
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‘This is probably the only time I'll ever come here,’ she says firmly, as she squelches up to the field called Lost Vagueness, where Druid lovers and insomniac wasters hang out till dawn.
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Whiling away the insomniac hours in his luxury hotel's 24-hour bar, he meets Scarlett Johansson, a young woman deeply unhappy in her marriage.
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I was an insomniac kid watching telly until 3am, catching every late-night comedy show.
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A new study by MIT scientists and colleagues confirms that melatonin is an effective sleep aid for older insomniacs and others.
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Although rebound is a temporary reaction, it tends to reinforce insomniacs' belief that they can not sleep without medication.
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I have been insomniac, dyspeptic, paranoid and weepy, mostly after hours but occasionally at lunchtime, sequestered between my big bookshelf and my desk.
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All the other insomniac kids may have taken their cue for suspicion of the wicked world from Shepherd, but what I got out of him was a wonder at the world one man could create.
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Many a night shift has been spent watching these thirty minute slots of idiots trying to sell insomniacs, TV addicts, drunks and shift workers the answers to non-existent problems.
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I forget what he was on about, but that ‘miles to go before I sleep’ captures the way the insomniac mind keeps on travelling when the body wants to slip away for a few hours.
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Placidyl is a ‘sedative-hypnotic’ developed to help insomniacs sleep.
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It turned out that Grace had lots of malaises, and what she needed was not so much a paid companion but an insomniac army of major-domos, footmen, servants, nurses, and dogsbodies.
The Devil's Bedpost
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And then there are people like me, run-of-the-mill insomniacs who toss and turn all night, trying to fall asleep.
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Looking at the comments and trackbacks, it seems clear that they're much more consistent during the day and night - which probably reflects a fairly international audience (or a lot of insomniacs and filthy drunks).
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It can help manage the hot flushes that many menopausal women complain of and can also help insomniacs get a better night's sleep.
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An insomniac who hasn't slept for over a year, he finds himself drawn into a crazy world of delusion and paranoia, where conspiracy theories start taking over his life.
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At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century.
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An insomniac who sleeps only three to four hours a night, her energy was legendary.
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It's not the brand of forty winks single insomniac procrastinators are meant to experience so understandably it's got me worried.
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Trevor Reznik is an insomniac machinist whose loose handle on reality endangers everyone around him.
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On his restless nocturnal strolls, Harry frequently encounters his next-door neighbor, and friendly fellow insomniac, Bradley Thomas (Greg Kinnear), the maritally jinxed proprietor of the campus coffee shop, and the source of much of the film’s humor in the kind of pompously clueless role he played so effectively in last year’s hilarious Little Miss Sunshine.
A Lovable Feast: An Old Friend Offers Cure for the War Weary
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It might even explain the insomniac tendencies - that tends only to happen when I'm on a path of self-destruction.
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Yet again her insomniac tendencies won out as she knew that seeking sleep any time soon would be futile as well as foolhardy.
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I responded to Chris's comment in a blinding flash of insomniac inspiration (or delusion, depending on your perspective).
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Anway, as I had so much random insomniac time, I spent a load of time reading.
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Like an insomniac passing the time, she stares blindly into the artificial luminescence, as though hoping for either a diversion or a soporific.
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Best of all, arguably, is the poem "Diagnosis", where long summer daylight over Scapa Flow brings together unsleeping gulls and an insomniac speaker, who must "keep watching waves/slosh to and fro over the dead ships", but who is actually seeing more than might be apparent:
Archive 2009-05-01
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insomniac old people
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Imagine, two PhD-chasing buckos arrived at the oh so-obvious conclusion that most English football matches would put an insomniac to sleep.
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Discover that sharing a room with one's parents means putting up with an insomniac mother who loves nothing more than reading.
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A new survey says insomniacs suffer from an abundance of happiness or creativity, but sleep deprivation isn't usually a reason to be cheerful.
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In Winnipeg director Sean Garrity's nervy followup to his first film Inertia, an insomniac psychotherapist becomes as unbalanced as his trio of patients.
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Always an insomniac, he'd been short of sleep for weeks.
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The Welsh residents were most likely to have trouble sleeping, unlike those in Newcastle, and the researchers reported: ‘Wales is a nation of insomniacs.’
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Science, the study describes how a genetic variation found in people who seem to need only about six hours 'sleep-compared to the often recommended 7½ to eight hours-was put into mice to create a colony of "insomniac" rodents.
Impact Lab
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Christian Bale, who shed 50 pounds, stars as an insomniac who hasn't slept for a year and fears that they may be out to get him.
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But the man's music - he is some sort of insomniac violinist - reminds me of the time I lived next to Huntingdon Life Sciences when they got a new delivery of cats.
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He appears to be assuming that we're all getting 8 hours of sleep, yet he's on record as a terrible insomniac.
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There was not even a trace of comfort in my little insomniac episode the other night.
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The insomniac narrator is every-consumer, furnishing his apartment from catalogues, buying labels, feeling spiritually empty.
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Voice acting by many of the original cast members, or at least pretty good facsimiles, a fine soundtrack, groovy graphics, all complemented by gameplay that could drop a hardcore insomniac into blissful sleep inside of an hour.
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Call me an insomniac; I only sleep a few hours a day if that.
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Cucumber vines might be trained on the fence, or hopvines, the dried flowers of which were used in making bread and beer, as well as for a pillow filling that was highly regarded as a soporific for insomniacs.
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Seems the only time you can watch a video is during the insomniac hours.
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Even at this early stage, we noted the slightly disturbing ability of these imaginary quadrapeds to suggest in the morning that they'd been moving about in the night, having doleful, insomniac consultations in the dark hours before dawn.
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It's like screening shows for insomniacs at lunchtime.
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In the depths of one insomniac, sex-starved night, Patrick is poised at Julia's door when Robert suddenly appears to ask him what he is doing.
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
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** sigh** If you looked up the word "insomniac" in the dictionary, my picture would be there.
Qdiosa Diary Entry
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Insomniacs have a significantly higher level of the stress hormones cortisol and adrenocorticotropic, both of which can suppress a healthy fertility cycle.
Dr. Michael J. Breus: Sleep Linked to Infertility
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He couldn't simply lie down again beside her, like an insomniac husband finally tiring.
COUP D'ETAT
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The controlling perspective is that of a nightwalker, a lonely insomniac roaming the streets of a sleeping city.
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It looks like the kind of thing you'd see advertised on those teleshopping channels during the insomniac hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was quite an insomniac back then, and one night I went for a walk and my wanderings eventually took me through the university.
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It causes drowsiness, so I tend to prescribe it in situations where someone's depression includes a marked insomniac component.
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Forget counting sheep - insomniacs count sleep, jealously, obsessively, the way some women count calories.
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Some insomniacs sleep best with two twin mattresses placed atop a king-size frame.
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InsomniacLolita - Your comment literally made me lough out loud.
Camera Critters: Fuji
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I was a terrible insomniac when I was a teenager, but never on account of cockroaches.
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The speaker of these stunning poems appears heartbroken and haunted yet filled with abrupt passion and resistance to loss -- uncompromising, uncheerful but "acquainted with the night" -- an insomniac's rhapsody.
Carol Muske-Dukes: Scattershot Poetry Reviews -- Three Books
