Sentence examples for lunatic over from inspiring English sources

"I was ranting like a lunatic over $3 worth of grapes".

When the song was over, Montgomery said, "I don't want to seem like a redneck or a lunatic, over here crying, but you guys are absolutely splendid".

The mid-sized lunatic ran over, reached into his pocket, took his fags, kicked him in the stomach, stamped on my hand, and they all ran off.

"The lunatics took over the asylum".

Talk about the lunatics taking over the asylum; here, they were running a newspaper!

Ebert described it as "like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics took over the asylum".

The Apprentice is worth watching, but I gave up on Big Brother a long time ago when the lunatics took over the asylum.

Mind you, lunatics taking over the asylum was hardly news to Pinter even the mid-1950s, when he volunteered (for ten bob) as a guinea pig to undergo shock treatment at the Maudsley Hospital.

At best it's hammy, Hammer-ish fun, although it has none of the tension of Brad Anderson's underappreciated potboiler The Call, and none of the wit of The Ninth Configuration, which remains the best screen tale of lunatics taking over an asylum.

In other words, if we collectively write off areas we now have to share with those who don't fit the social profile we've decided is the one that suits 'our' concept of how nightlife should 'be', then self-fulfilling-prophecy'll turn it's steely gaze in our direction and let the lunatics take over the asylum.

I am not suggesting that the lunatics should take over the asylum from the lunatics who now run it.