Sentence examples for like madman from inspiring English sources
We see words like "madman" and "mental illness" as the first go-to explanations for the shooter's motivations.
The plot of this season's "24," a Fox series, pits a top C.I.A. agent played by Kiefer Sutherland against an Osama bin Laden-like madman bent on exploding a nuclear bomb in the United States.
Driving his Audi while gesticulating emphatically with both hands, he struck me as a bit of an Ahab-like madman, and therefore the right person to revolutionize the hidebound American orchestra.
It's a mission that has put him starkly at odds with most of his profession, where he is variously described as a reactionary, a mystic or a Lear-like madman ranting on the moors.
But they defended like madmen.
"We walk around like madmen.
They fought like madmen because of too many martinis.
People are crying and people are blowing their vuvuzelas like madmen.
Two men, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, are flying in opposite directions, like forest sprites, like madmen.
We defended like madmen, but it would have been nice to have the chance to play a bit as well".
