Had he suddenly gone demented?
He went demented in the horsebox and badly injured his leg.
Diane Abbott asked about some apparently missing minutes, and Anna Soubry, a junior health minister, went demented.
When he's older he'll go to the pub like his father, drink pints galore, stick the finger down the throat to bring it all up, drink more pints, win the bets, and bring the money home to his mother to keep her from going demented.
My wife must be going demented with all the DVDs all over the house and me staying up all hours, but that's my job.
Boris has gone demented on power, which doesn't usually happen until someone has been in office for a while – yes, this is his second term as Mayor but surely his eye is on the Tory leadership and the top job at Number 10, so it's not like he's meant to be quite this deranged yet.
In the US, women went completely demented for it.
Here were all the raw materials destined to make Pixies America's greatest proto-grunge alt-rock pioneers – cranky, lo-fi, art-pop, student-friendly babble about exotic travel and grotesque sex (who has "breasts like a cluster of grapes"? Was he dating oversized insects?), and Frank losing his lithium and going melodically demented in the chorus.
Then, when a septuagenarian Parkinson's sufferer named Alfred Lambert goes into demented exile in that house's basement, Franzen set off my alarm bell of anxiety by warning that some larger significance might be about to hit me over the head: "And so in the house of the Lamberts, as in St . Jude as in the country as a whole, life came to be lived underground".
The dim, demented Innitzer went as far as to scrawl in his own hand "Heil Hitler" to the bishop's fawning welcome to the Nazi protectors of Austria from "the danger of godless Bolshevism".
