(An equal-opportunity wordsmith, he had also called Ms. Le Pen "half-demented" and a "bat").
He has called the extreme right "professional racists," and referred to Marine Le Pen as "half-demented".
"Project X" considers the half-demented, perpetually embarrassed world of early adolescence in a sensitive examination of the Columbine phenomenon.
McQueen's film pitilessly documents the beatings, lynchings, rape and brutality of a slave-owning class half-demented by its own moral corruption, and routinely reduces audiences to tears.
Fighting Le Pen for the working class and protest vote, he has called her "a bat", "half-demented" and a "dark presence" likened to Dracula.
Mélenchon is already famous for his scathing attacks on opponents, and his public savagery of what he terms the "half-demented" Le Pen has become the stuff of campaign legend.
He also appears in the film wearing a narrow-brimmed hat and a nice tweed overcoat, playing a half-demented filmmaker known, in a Dostoyevskian reference, as "the Idiot" and "the Prince".
And "Butler" is set in a private psychiatric clinic, where a doctor and his wife barter for the favors of a prim young secretary and a greedy young hustler, all under the half-demented scrutiny of a visiting government psychiatrist.
Davis pulls off this metafictional twist (that her fiction seems to comment on the very nature of fiction) with far more subtlety and elegance than many of those writers who deploy footnotes, letters and half-demented narrators telling stories about the story they're telling.
But although experience has shown that many a pioneer trod his path [with] absolute certainty at a time when he was still held to be wandering half-demented, most people invariably turn against those who strike out into unknown regions of the spirit… New music is never beautiful on first acquaintance".
Someone once described the sadly-defunct SUPERSUPER magazine as "clown vomit"—and with its infatuation with day-glo colors, drag queen fashion, and half-demented design aesthetics, I can understand why.
