Sentence examples for lunatic as from inspiring English sources

Prohibition was not quite as doomed – or as lunatic – as some critics like to suggest.

Medvedev branded Saakashvili a "lunatic" as he outlined tough terms to the French leader, in effect demanding Georgian capitulation to vastly superior Russian forces.

The national papers portrayed me as a lunatic, as a banshee capable of unleashing havoc -- and, worst of all, as an American.

"It's interesting that it's signed in Greek characters - I guess that's Byron trading on his reputation as a considerable traveller, a 'Levant Lunatic' as he put it.

Paolo Costa, the mayor of Venice, condemned the assaults as the acts of "an isolated lunatic" as they made front-page news in Italian newspapers and raised questions about security in Venice, where no video system monitors its art or its millions of tourists, Reuters reported.

Without being asked, Smith has brushed aside brave and decent Angela Eagle, toured the country "like a lunatic" (as one critic put it) in the seemingly hopeless cause of ousting the People's Jeremy and, in doing so, has shown one crucial quality: a courageous willingness to lead, not follow.

Randall Roark Miami, Feb. 16, 2010 To the Editor: It would be a mistake to dismiss the Tea Party movement as a part of the lunatic fringe, as inane as some of its complaints may be, because it is right on its fundamental point: our elected representatives no longer represent our interests.

"We unreal / Just like a seven-dollar bill / Voice my opinion regardless on how you feel / Freak shit / It ain't about being rich / It's about Juggalos and runnin' with lunatics / As long as y'all rock this we won't quit / We do it all for y'all, I mean that shit / Everyone of y'all means everything to me / We bleed for y'all, that's why we call it the family".

The total disregard for human life is bred into those of us that have grown up with lunatics as our surrogate families.

Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics, as it was then known, was performed in the presence of an assembled press on 17 February 1972 – more than a year before its release – at the Rainbow Theatre, and was critically acclaimed.

Early 70s San Francisco was hit by a steep spike in the crime rate, with a special twist of Barbary Coast weirdness added by such local lunatics as the Zodiac Killer, who brought fear into the city even when it wasn't Halloween.