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is madman
noun
A male who is insane or mentally disturbed.
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In the case of Tom Brown's Rugby, this chap is Madman Martin, who regularly blows up his study with gunpowder but is a brilliant "natural philosopher".
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Yes, eventhe women were madmen.
And if we're madmen, we're one of two sorts: buffoons or psychotics.
"Al Qaeda has a reputation for being madmen, but even for them these investments were crazy".
Because when it comes to desire, we only have two choices now, here in the West at the beginning of the third millennium AD: we're madmen, or we're history.
There are madmen, mystics, seducers, naïfs — Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, the ghost-prone governess in "The Turn of the Screw" and Poe's self-defeating paranoiac in "The Tell-Tale Heart," for starters.
"You are madmans!" came the response.
He is a madman.
So who is the "madman" of the novel's title?
The person who devised this plan is a madman, but a genius.
In fact, I am terrified of getting hit by a bus on Flatbush Avenue, and I think he is the madman for being so cavalier on the subject.
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