Sentence examples for not actually mad from inspiring English sources

Although he'd probably be horrified to hear himself described this way, he is a profoundly English filmmaker, in the best sense -- willful, eccentric and, if not actually mad, at least an enthusiastic connoisseur of madness, a constant lover of human folly.

After she married Enescu she seems to have become more and more eccentric and difficult, if not actually mad in the end.

"But then I realize he's not actually mad, it's something else that he just can't get out".

Back in London, I start to wonder if the stuff about bad spirits and swirling demons isn't actually mad at all.

It was the immediate aftermath of a killing that many people would regard as the work of a madman, and yet Adebolajo did not actually seem mad.

Actually, they're not really mad at all.

All right, that's not actually a quote from "Mad Men," but it might as well be.

But I read Rousseau's Confessions a few years ago and did wonder if it was possible to tell the truth in that sort of way about oneself, and then discovered it wasn't because you have to be actually mad, as Rousseau was, to be so feckless and reckless with other people's feelings.

He played down suggestions that he thought leaving the EU would be "mad", although he did not actually deny using the phrase in private.

At the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Mad Men-themed gala, it's not at all clear how many of the libertarians sipping Don and Betty Drapers are actually Mad Men fans.

It's a patient movie: Max doesn't actually get so mad until the last ten minutes of the film, when the revenge plot surfaces.