Sentence examples for madman as from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dubal recalled an anecdote involving the pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who chided the pianist Andras Schiff for performing the work in public, saying, "How could you do that to people?" The dissonant fugue sounds like the work of a madman, as shocking as the Grosse Fugue in Beethoven's Opus 130 string quartet.

"The American people have elected a madman as their president," a top Soviet spy says.

That unfortunate honour went to Spencer Perceval, a Tory who was shot dead by a madman as he walked through the House of Commons lobby in 1812.

There have been Otellos more dulcet or clarion, but Martinelli's is the complete portrayal: as lover, as madman, as penitent murderer.

Mr. Rush and his director, Neil Armfield, chose to present Gogol's madman as something very close to the classic clown, a brightly colored Bozo who keeps slipping on the great big banana peel that is his demented mind.

Addressing the American Astronomical Society in 1985, Professor Boime argued that van Gogh's masterwork, "The Starry Night," was not the hallucinatory vision of a madman, as observers had long supposed.

He'd once naïvely assumed that going mad meant you were not aware of going mad; he'd naïvely pictured madmen as laughing.

Once the madman-as-God begins to object that theologians resort to jargon to obscure the fact that they cannot face the truth about him, anyone in the audience who is familiar with criticism of religion from Montaigne to now can complete the piece.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But this isn't just on Arizona; that state is not the only quarter of the country in which a sort of extremism has taken hold — and a sort of contempt, which has not been entirely confined to one side or the other, or to madmen as opposed to ostensibly sane ones.

But this isn't just on Arizona; that state is not the only quarter of the country in which a sort of extremism has taken hold — and a sort of contempt, which has not been entirely confined to one side or the other, or to madmen as opposed to ostensibly sane ones.

No one knows better than Kitty Carlisle Hart that the golden age of "American musical thea-tah," as cultural grande dames are wont to call it, was peopled with dreamers and madmen as driven, ambitious and unstable in their way as subsequent generations of rockers and hip-hoppers.