Sentence examples similar to nutter- from inspiring English sources

Mine stretches from "highly gifted" in some people's eyes, to "nutter" in others.

Just before Christmas, Osborne promised a budget surplus of £23bn by 2020 – thus opening himself up to the charge of being a deficit nutter and a mad shrink-the-stater.

(Not everyone in Scotland walks around in a kilt, but everyone knows a nutter down the local pub who resembles the psychotic Begbie in Trainspotting, just as we have all dreamed that when the time comes for a brush with the law we will be arrested by a liberal, dope-smoking cop called Hamish).

Automatically they think: he's a nutter.

Tonight though we had one bona-fide nutter, an elderly gent, well coifed and groomed, and claiming to represent an obscure organ of the Polish press.

TONY BLAIR, after years as Britain's prime minister, remarked recently that religion and politics don't mix: a leader who invokes his faith is, he lamented, considered a "nutter".

Brows are now being furrowed at Threadneedle Street over the looming embarrassment of an extraordinary letter that Sir Edward George, the Bank's governor, may soon have to write to Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer.Sir Edward, once memorably accused of being an "inflation-nutter", has to meet the precise terms of the government's remit to the Bank for controlling inflation.

Tony Blair was reticent about his Christianity while in office in order to avoid being thought a "nutter".

After all, this is not the country in which an atavistic, chauvinistic, xenophobic nutter made the run-off in a presidential election.

Simon & Schuster; 320 pages; $30.THE journey from nutter to genius can be short.

The Taliban had landed a helicopter in north-eastern Poland, he announced this week, to extract anthrax from Polish cows and smuggle the virus to America in precious stones, with ministerial connivance, of course.Yet Mr Lepper cannot just be dismissed as a nutter.