Sentence examples for madman for from inspiring English sources

Here indeed was a madman for all seasons.

Jefferson was a madman for it, often sending John Adams dozens of sketches of his penis in a single day.

In fact, I am terrified of getting hit by a bus on Flatbush Avenue, and I think he is the madman for being so cavalier on the subject.

But they said when you are the head of Shin Bet, you are working 24/7 like a madman for the security of Israel.

At the Sarah-Bernhardt, the West Berlin Opera Studio obliged with two programs consisting of three ballets and four brief modern chamber-music operettes, including one based on Gogol's "Diary of a Madman"; for this electronic music was furnished by the Englishman Humphrey Searle.

"One of the news magazine shows sent people from New York to talk to me, but when I didn't act crazy or jump up and down and become a madman for the story, they didn't believe me, and said there is no story, which was fine," said Walker, who owns a food distribution business.

"Al Qaeda has a reputation for being madmen, but even for them these investments were crazy".

All is innocent misbehavior until one day they encounter Abula, the town's "vision-seeing" madman both feared and revered for his soothsaying, who predicts Ikena will die by the hand of one of his brothers.

Re "New York Action Hero," about Joe Quesada, editor in chief of Marvel Comics (Nov. 23): It's discouraging to see Marvel blame "madmen" for the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center, a view that was expressed in the large, eye-popping Spider-Man illustration that accompanied the article.

According to L10, one cannot lie to "Children or Madmen," for example, since they lack the right of liberty of judgment (Grotius 2005, 1212).

In her essay, "We Refugees," the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, "We fight like madmen for private existences with individual destinies".