De Waal has not enlisted on a madman's voyage but he's interested in obsession, in the curiosity of a chemist or an alchemist, in the devotions of a Quaker apothecary, in the ambition of an industrialist.
It sounds like a madman's curiosity cabinet, and that's pretty much how it reads.
King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman's rant.
The weapons on display — guns, knives and swords — looked like a madman's arms stash.
The basic framing of the novel — a madman's scholarly notes to a long poem — would present immense formal difficulties.
There was in years past a Goodchild St., a Madman's St., a N uns St., and one called Amen.
Mr. García, an architect, calls it his "madman's urge to find out" if something can be done.
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman's act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members.
The madman's proud dream has been realized: Steffi Graf is back at the top.
"He looked like a madman, and his office looked like a madman's office," Sherry Lassiter, a program manager at the university, told me.
