Sentence examples for nor mad from inspiring English sources

The eccentric with his Heath Robinson contraption looks neither boastful nor mad, just properly interested; the children appear plausibly grumpy or blithe.

There is something at once terrifying and beautiful in the thought that, while half a million Gypsies died, this Gypsy jazzman went on making music neither demonic nor mad but merely sad and lovely.

Nor to Mad Max: Fury Road's Imperator Furiosa.

Brennan, at 52, was neither the impeccable style queen of her youth, nor the mad woman of her old age.

What if we could imagine a mentally ill person as neither a potentially violent simpleton nor a mad genius but simply a person with an illness that might be diagnosed, treated, even cured?

When Van Woerden visits him in a mental hospital, in 1999, shortly before his death, at age eighty-one, the assassin is a disappointment — neither revealingly lucid nor thoroughly mad.

Neither mad nor bad, Young remains resolutely on the rails.

Nor is it Mad Men: people sure aren't watching for the production values.

Here, for those neither too mad nor vain, are some of the important things that must be mastered.

Suleyman in turn cannot tell Ikmen that his suspect is a secret service operative gone mad, nor that his handler, lascivious Mursel Bey, is threatening his life.

A word that is often used to describe Holloway is madcap but, as he frequently points out, he is neither mad nor wearing a cap.