Sentence examples for mad risks from inspiring English sources

Compared with movies like "The Hustler," "The Gambler" and "California Split," "Lucky You" feels tidy and safe, more interested in kibitzing the action than in partaking of the existential rush that comes from taking big, mad risks.

These were mad risks for a writer accustomed to praise for Baglady, the hostage drama Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and a host of masterly translations, including A Doll's House, which won him a Tony award when it appeared on Broadway starring Janet McTeer.

Do you think I'm mad?" The associate did call it "a mad risk" in her obituary of Collings; "a book as bizarre by an unknown writer which had been turned down by the major London publishers; but it was also dazzlingly brave and intuitive".

The pace of "All the Names" accelerates eventually, and Jose's mysterious, even perhaps meaningless, quest leads him on to take ever madder risks.

That will just make them mad and risk your chance of getting hurt.

Nevertheless, for those willing to put a little mad money at risk, the long-term outlook for coffee seems propitious.

The incidence of aplasia started to rise around 1999 after Johnson & Johnson stopped using a blood protein, human serum albumin, as a stabilizer, because European authorities were worried about risks of mad cow disease in blood products.

Before the risks of mad-cow disease were understood, the NHS routinely reused its nailclippers.

And with a vegetarian diet, there is no risk of mad cow disease.

Younger cows are believed to be less at risk from mad cow disease.

Senator Schumer said he thought the threat of blood shortages should outweigh the potential risk of mad cow disease.