Sentence examples similar to harebrained man from inspiring English sources
Although he is now synonymous with drawings of harebrained inventions manned by bungling technicians (his name entered the dictionary in 1912 as a synonym for absurd and overcomplicated devices), they make up only a quarter of his work.
It's the centerpiece, for example, of the 1913 short "Mabel's Dramatic Career," in which an unassuming housemaid is wooed and then rebuffed by a harebrained, ill-mannered young man, who soon regrets his loss and years later rediscovers her in a nickelodeon.
It is the world's most audacious real estate project, which started as nothing more than the harebrained idea of the man in the helicopter.
One goal up but one man down after Hamit Altintop's harebrained scheme to get himself sent off had come to fruition, Bayern dealt impressively well with everything Schalke threw at them in the second half in the Veltins-Arena.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 men set out in the ship Endurance with the harebrained idea of crossing Antarctica on foot.
In the late seventies, a man named Frank William Menge appeared on the scene professing devotion to Falwell and offering him a number of harebrained schemes.
This jihadist narrative magnified any harebrained scheme it touched.
But Ms. Walton, 61, is no harebrained carpetbagger.
In her eyes, James is a harebrained nut.
"It was absolutely harebrained and hair-raising," Mr. Norris said.
