Sentence examples for like loony from inspiring English sources

As a writer whose heyday spanned the years from "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) to "Awakenings" (1990), "Sleeping With the Enemy" (1991) and "L.A. Story" (1991), Ms. Kael could mingle references to literary lions like Saul Bellow, Jean Genet and Norman Mailer with demotic condemnations like loony, sleazo, junk and bummer.

But it relies for firepower on linear recitations and earnest pieties, along with a stream of pumped-up terms like "loony," "bilious," "smarmily" and "nightmarish," some of which get tangled (Senator Trent Lott is "clueless" and "smooth" in the same paragraph).

Erdoğan's new presidential palace and declarations about Muslims discovering America seemed like loony signs of a leader simply not ready to give up and slightly out of step with the rest of the world.

We're running like loonies through tumble-down back streets, looking for white chalk marks.

They also fired the project Lydon founded after the Pistols' demise: Public Image Limited, AKA PiL, "a consortium of like-minded loonies prepared to jump into the next universe without any tools".

Algeria were surprised at Rooney Who left the field in a huff like a loony.

Both looked like that loony clown-gear Johnny Depp wears when he wants to get on a worst-dressed list.

Those readers who have decided that America is, in fact, more like the loony boffin than the superhero may be unsympathetic to what comes next.

Spouting history like a loony professor, reading to the pigs and snacking on ants, Nat is deaf to the pleas of his long-suffering wife (Mary McDonnell).

"When I'm not in class, I'm at the library," said Mr. Macklovitch, throwing his hands around like a loony scientist, glasses and all.

Extra point  The accusations seem like a loony conspiracy theory, but it is noteworthy that some of Callahan's players seemed to go into the game feeling deflated and beaten before it began.