If average citizens had shown courage enough to speak up, the little madman would have been shouted down.
If you read enough of his tales of new landowners, madmen, murderous aunts, dusty resorts, and innocent-looking dogs, after a while you may start to forget their plots.
When Mauroy died, Guillaume Lamy, one of the doctors opposed to Denis's experiments, rejoiced that "the madman's death will be enough to overturn all of his beautiful imaginations and to ruin entirely his high hopes".
Trump has had enough foreign policy wins that he probably thinks his madman approach is working.
There are enough weapons to kill anyone you want, and a madman can always find an excuse for murder if he looks for one.
Plot details for "Halloween Returns" have yet to be revealed, though it's safe enough to assume that the mask-wielding, knife-brandishing madman who first terrorized teens in John Carpenter's 1978 classic "Halloween" will continue to do so.
Then, when they were not to be persuaded by him, but looked down upon him as a madman (since his reputation was not yet great enough to justify his being entrusted with so important a manoeuvre), he took matters into his own hands, formed his fellow-citizens into a wedge, and charged upon the enemy.
If that wasn't enough drama in 1977, we were all afraid of a madman on the loose with a gun.
The campaign portrayed him as a madman, practically giving away valuable merchandise to consumers savvy enough to take advantage of his allegedly feeble mind.
On a lesser scale, this also underpinned Richard Nixon's "Madman Theory" during the Vietnam War: If he appeared to be crazy enough to use nuclear weapons, the theory went, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union might back down.
