Sentence examples for mad acts from inspiring English sources

Obviously, fools perpetrate folly, and beasts commit bestiality, and madmen commit mad acts: all of them suicidal.

And of course it wrestles with the mammoth concerns of Greek tragedy, the hyperbolic emotions, mad acts and grotesque consequences that in Aeschylus were propelled by the gods but here are more attributable to Freud.

Nina fixates on Trigorin with the kind of love that she wishes would come to her; her obsession is her own mad act of self-destruction.

Will it be seen as the mad act of Behring Breivik alone, or as the product of a growing Islamophobia and political hatred?

By any measure, it's a mad act, achieving nothing and provoking a vengeance that proves to be swift and brutal, but also spider-like in the subtlety of its means.

This adaptation takes advantage of all of them: Mizoguchi, played by Go Morita of the Japanese boy band V6, starts out on the edge of dysfunctional, and Mr. Morita really has no place to take the character in the ensuing three hours leading up to his mad act of arson.

"My horse wanted to go faster, got mad, acted up and whacked me in the forehead," said Delgado, 50.

If your virtual parents get mad, act innocent again, and they will forgive you.

If they are mad, act innocent, and say something like, "Waa!

Actor and director Ralph Fiennes has admitted he was "a bit mad" to act in and direct a film version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

"If you have one mad experimental act and one pop act, the one you're going to push for is the pop act," explains the industry source.