Sentence examples for lunatic of from inspiring English sources

The sideline lunatic of popular perception, however, is almost the antithesis of the off-the-court Sloan.

The new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher is Gilderoy Lockhart who is a self-obsessed lunatic of a teacher.

He was branded the "lunatic of all lunatics" on Fox News and damned as a socialist (he's not) by the rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Take, for example, the last of the Victorian shootings, by the most clearly lunatic of the would-be assassins, Roderick Maclean, a man infuriated to homicidal pitch by the promiscuous public display of the color blue.

His transformation into the wiry, weathered Dicky — a onetime welterweight contender who also happens to be, for part of the film, a crackhead — is of a piece with Mr. Bale's other physical feats: embodying the buff, preening lunatic of "American Psycho" (2000) or the emaciated insomniac of "The Machinist" (2004), for which he famously lost more than 60 pounds.

"I loved playing the part of a blabbering lunatic of a police inspector," he said.

Inventing new forms of speech is an almost cosmic urge that stems from what the linguist Marina Yaguello, the author of "Lunatic Lovers of Language," calls "an ambivalent love-hate relationship".

This bit isn't just fantasy; this is exactly the world view of the lunatic fringe of the far right politics of BNP, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Co.

These do not seem to be the ravings of a lunatic but of a highly rational, self-aware man who committed an unspeakable act of conscious evil.

The tale ends with the eponymous hero stranded between the two borders: "On one side, behind barbed wire, stood together the lunatics of India and on the other side, behind more barbed wire, stood the lunatics of Pakistan.

On Sunday, 28 October, 1962, the Cold War military lunatics of Russia and America finally decided against blowing up most of the world.