Examples of use of gadarene
1. All is ignored in the Gadarene rush to be seen championing an apparently innovative idea.
2. There are many symptoms that surround us of the moral putrescence of our society, its complete Gadarene lurch into mindless, rootless, meaningless nastiness.
3. His arrival as ecumenical adviser to Cardinal Basil Hume at Westminster coincided with the Church of England‘s decision to ordain women priests and a gadarene rush of disgruntled conservative, high–church Anglicans queueing up to become Catholics.
4. The Gadarene rush of the Watergate–era students into media and the law was prefigured in Doonesbury and it can claim to have predicted Jimmy Carter‘s sad descent from piety to sanctimony, the hollowness of Reagan‘s feel–good nostrums, the short electoral life of George Bush‘s desert victories, and the indecisive disappointments of Bill Clinton.