Sentence examples for mad songs from inspiring English sources

And how shocking the mad songs of Ophelia – a woman of noble rank, falling from grace into madness – must have seemed to those who first "heard" Hamlet.

The disc opens with four richly expressive songs from The Fairy Queen and includes two "mad songs": Let the dreadful Engines of Eternal Will and From rosy bow'rs from Don Quixote.

"The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein," which opens today in Brooklyn, is a long, excruciatingly earnest attempt to look beneath the patriotic bombast that surrounded Operation Desert Storm and to examine the war's more sinister implications.

THE MAD SONGS OF FERNANDA HUSSEIN Written, produced and directed by John Gianvito; director of photography, Ulli Bonnekamp; edited by Mr. Gianvito and Rob Todd; music by Igo Tkachenko, Johannes Ammon and Jakov Jakoulov; released by Traveling Light Productions.

But people who already share Mr. Gianvito's views and are happiest when they encounter works of art that confirm what they already believe will doubtless approve of "The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein," which ends on an intended note of optimism, with Raphael collecting signatures for the Green Party.

But "The Mad Songs" is less an alternative to jingoism than its mirror image, as sure of itself and as disdainful of doubt or uncertainty as the chest-thumping triumphalism of the most fervent right-wing talk show (and much less entertaining).

Ms. Schäfer put her decidedly non-Baroque technique to fine use in a beautifully characterized account of "From Rosy Bow'rs," a mad song from a theatrical setting of "Don Quixote".

Lucia: My soul is in torment / This is my biggest moment / Sopranos' careers have been built / By wearing a kilt / And seeing how long / They can string out the Mad Song / So I make no excuse / For singing fast and loose / With several cadenzas / All achingly tender / That will leave you breathless and crying / Till my pianissimo dying.

Fatal stabbing shortly after the band played its other idealism-gone-mad song, "Sympathy for the Devil"?

The Return of Jimi Hendrix Epic, mad story song about Jimi Hendrix coming back to life for 24 hours in New York.

The label's occasionally moved onto more pop-friendly realms in recent years, but this blast of chirping synths is a throwback to a time when you could recognize any Mad Decent song within the first few seconds. GRRL. GRRL