Sentence examples for act loony from inspiring English sources

Then a doctor pal confided that she's surprised at how many of her female patients act loony even though they're on mood-smoothing pills -- sometimes multiple meds.

After that '38 fiasco a lot of eggheads said that O.W.'s broadcast made people act loony because, consciously or subconsciously, they heard in "War of the Worlds" a metaphor for the times.

First question: Would it be just another act of loony socialism for Vermont to dictate prices on medicines?

This "loony" act (Wodehouse's own adjective), coupled with an almost mutinous refusal to understand the political significance of his actions (McCrum has unearthed a chilling quote from the end of the war about "this Belsen business"), quite simply ruined the rest of the writer's life.

The tea-baggers have taught us all an important lesson in modern politics: If you want to be taken seriously, act like a fucking loony-tune.

Bill Shorten had apparently committed a gory and unfathomable act of political harakiri with a "loony … lurch to the left" climate policy that had guaranteed Tony Abbott victory at the next election.

In the modern world Mr. Bailey relates a cleverly loony theological debate about the "act of God" clause in an auto-rental insurance policy and proceeds from there to a consideration of the Taliban and President Bush, including a song set to a recording of the president, furnishing lyrics like "I believe good triumphs over evil".

He has signed on to ideas from the loony left, such as the Fair Pay Act, a nonsensical bill that demands equal pay for "comparable" work.

Loony schemes like the Orwellian "Iran Threat Reduction Act" before Congress that would make contact with Iranian officials illegal only foment a dangerous jingoism.

In the 1960s David Sutch, a working class lad from Harrow, assumed the character of a fictitious nobleman and formed the Monster Raving Loony party, a fringe outfit whose most noticeable political act is that other uniquely British pastime of dressing up.

Though front-loaded with potential, Robert Tannen's screenplay confuses loony passwords with philosophical depth and hurtling traffic with a credible third act.