Sentence examples for mad notion from inspiring English sources

It's like they were built for an HBO show… That's not a completely mad notion.

"The plague of the middle-sized man", said McGrath, "is the mad notion that he must be six feet high to have any distinction whatever..

In 1975, Glynn Ross, the founding general director of the tiny, 11-year-old Seattle Opera, got the mad notion of mounting Wagner's complete "Ring" tetralogy, uncut, in one week.

You need a sense of humour to swim in the Thames, but Little Britain star David Walliams's mad notion to spend eight days swimming its entire 140-mile length to raise money for Sport Relief should be stopped before it ends in a hospital.

One such doctrine was "mutual assured destruction" (MAD), the notion that the purpose of nuclear strategy was to create a stable world in which two opponents would realize that neither could hope to attack the other successfully and that in any war both would suffer effective obliteration.

The ruling national-security concept is mutual assured destruction, or mad — the notion that in a world of competing nuclear powers stability is maintained by each side's assurance that any nuclear strike would be met by a massive retaliatory attack, resulting in the annihilation of both countries.

Better his finger on Pakistan's nuclear button, the thinking went, than a flaky, venal civilian, perhaps followed in short order by a mad mullah.But the notion that his departure is a victory for the extremists and a setback for their enemies is wrong.

What makes him "mad" he says, is the notion that a newspaper is merely "a monopoly protected by printing press and that the thing being called a journalist is the chance to write the news, as if there isn't this separate set of skills that are difficult to acquire and worthy of preservation.

Neither the United States nor Canada has ever carried out surveillance efforts beyond testing small numbers of downer cows, based on the notion that if mad cow disease were to appear, it would most likely show up in older animals showing signs of illness.

Tavis Smiley is mad that Obama "advanced the notion of American exceptionalism".

(Mr. Partridge also dismissed "mad" for "angry" as an American notion, though, he said, hatter/attercop, or spider, "has some support in 'mad as a bed-bug.' ") Since Carroll was well known as a mathematician, logicians have looked to his writing and discovered a sympathetic mind under the Hatter hat: perhaps a Mad Adder.