Sentence examples for madman that from inspiring English sources

Theroux's protagonist suffers a similar fate, but it's not the foibles of a callous madman that threaten to destroy him, it's his misconceptions about an entire continent.

Even his vice-president, Joe Biden, who on the campaign trail called Mr Ahmadinejad a "madman", "that wacko guy" and "the crazy president", kept his mouth uncharacteristically shut.

In this Vatican flip, Law plays as Pope Pius the Thirteenth who doubles as a madman that will yell at an underling for not knowing some popular pop culture thing.

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But I'm going to be an old head for a second and say that all the so-called "insanity" of today's rappers pales in comparison to the real King of Insanity, the drug-fueled madman that was the Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Amiable madman that he was, he noticed a painting on the bedroom wall, and his first remark was that he had a picture by the same artist.

Sheriff Bill Brown has called Friday's tragedy "the work of a madman," adding that evidence suggests that Rodger was "severely disturbed," per NBC News.

In Lucy Corin's seriously bizarre "Madmen", there's a rite of passage in which pubescent girls visit an asylum and pick out a lunatic to bring home, complete with harness, to install as a sort of tutelary garden gnome: "The whole idea," as the teen narrator puts it, "is that you take home a madman and that teaches you about Facing the Incomprehensible and Understanding Across Difference".

The forward to the book is written by James Grauerholz, executor of the Burroughs estate, who calls Lees "the consummate Watson to Burroughs Holmess", adding that "my only reservation about Mentored by a Madman is that Andrew attributes so very much of his own medical insight to the effects on him of Burroughs' ideas".

Holden declares that he isn't going to tell us "about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down".

I ask him if he minds not getting the extreme gigs, the starving madman roles that go to Daniel Day-Lewis and the Oscar squad.