Sentence examples for madcap play from inspiring English sources

She's tainted from the get-go, a madcap play on Du Bois's "double-consciousness".

Matt Garza pitched seven scoreless innings, and the Cubs scored twice on a madcap play that featured three bad throws by Mets infielders, giving Chicago a 3-0 lead.

This madcap playing almost purely for laughs continues, at one point when the Doctor has deanimated a severed arm of an auton and labels it "armless", a pun so obvious even Roger Moore as James Bond would blush under his tan before deploying it.

"I hear your show is wacky, madcap fun.

It's funny, easy to read and a madcap romp.

CS Moskow Diskow – Telex If Kraftwerk had been raised in Belgium and drunk a lot of Belgian beer, they'd have sounded like these Brussels madcaps, who played synths, wore masks and made brilliant, deadpan electronic pop.

In the latter film, Barrymore played madcap Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe, a role in which he demonstrated a "rare genius as a comedian".

This swatch of epic slapstick, in which three madcap adventurers from London play beat-the-clock in a race to circle the earth, is really a silent comedy with spoken subtitles.

"In the process, I got very excited about the madcap quality of the play, and slowing down and speeding up the text is a formal way of encapsulating that".

This swatch of epic slapstick, in which three madcap adventurers from London play beat the clock in a race to circle the earth by any means necessary, lets all its seams show.

How would Aristotle's toolkit of the unities – of place, of time, of action – have served him had he considered the unruly danger of Euripides' The Bacchae or the trilogy of The Oresteia, let alone the madcap playfulness of any play by Aristophanes?