Sentence examples for as addled as from inspiring English sources

The question is whether it's all used up, as parched as a post-apocalyptic desert, as barren as an old woman, as addled as an old man.

Toward the end of the meal, Justin, the father of the other twins who had spent the past year as addled as we were, asked how we still managed to cook at home.

One change that has already been announced should make fans of the original wary: Smoky, the emaciated, wisdom-dispensing crack addict, will become a former crack addict, though Mr. Bell is quick to say that Smoky will remain as addled as before.

"The California wildfires will produce no Blancos," he wrote, adding, "California's government isn't as addled with corruption and incompetence as Louisiana's and that has made the difference".

Bird co-wrote the film with Damon Lindelof, who, as addled viewers of "Lost," "Prometheus," and "World War Z" can attest, is more concerned with setups than with payoffs.

On a vintage Detroit techno tip, Carl Craig's first releases on his Planet E label, "4 Jazz Funk Classics" and "Sound On Sound", have just been repressed for the first time and they're (still) totally, beautifully bananas—"Ladies & Gentlemen" and the Visage-sampling "Frequency Finale" sound as addled and awe-inspiring today as they surely did back then.

But none of his roles have been quite as spectacularly addled as King Berenger in "Exit the King," nor as a provocative a symbol of those absurdities of life that first struck Mr. Rush as a boy.

But even then, he was ill; he seemed addled as he sat in a courtroom that attempted to bring numerous human rights charges against him.

He describes the United States as a whole as pill addled, in a sense — self-medicating to avoid looking hard at its social and political failings.

Speaking of which, I'd be remiss if I didn't admit that all this snow and cabin fever left me a little addled, as well.

"I would much rather hang out with a group of hoodies than the people who run the country, who are just as drug addled on their whisky and cocaine as whatever the kids are doing, and just as violent".