Sentence examples for like a crackpot from inspiring English sources

She didn't look like a crackpot to Torres.

IN SEPTEMBER Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority launched a public consultation on what sounds like a crackpot idea: to create children with three genetic parents.

He went on to tell me that he had videotapes of Kennedy's assassination and that one was stolen by the F.B.I. "I know it makes me look like a crackpot," he said.

He originally wanted to buy land to build the town along a major highway, so that it would be visible, like a crackpot theme park, to hundreds of thousands of people passing on their way to work.

He has to go through the White House switchboard and when he identifies himself to the woman on duty she refuses to put him through because he sounds like a crackpot fantasist.

His rambling monologues on state-run television, some lasting seven hours, are filled with references to baseball, Walt Whitman and Jesus, embarrassing upper-class Venezuelans who believe Mr. Chávez sounds more like a crackpot than a statesman.

It's not like he's a crackpot, or that guy who claimed to have footage of a real life alien?

"Although Obama is not a crackpot like Palin, his experience is the equivalent of Palin's".

Crackpot To modern sensibilities - particularly in light of all that Nazi unpleasantness last millennium - Richard Wagner's weird tale of incest, rapine and homicide, mingled in with all the dragons and magic headwear, may seem like the work of a crackpot.

Once Bazell pounces on a political topic, his wrath spills over into furious footnotes, not to mention 45 pages of source notes and an appendix that read like the work of a crackpot genius.

In his early 40s, filthy and deranged, Tan Man came off like a caricature of a crackpot bum.