Sentence examples for rather loony from inspiring English sources

The press coverage I've had this year has resulted in some rather loony approaches to me via the internet.

Mr. Feingold actually risked losing his last election in order to keep to his principles about how campaigns ought to be paid for, a position that most of his colleagues regarded as both admirable and rather loony.

If Lakin ever envisioned his court-martial as the slingshot that could bring down a presidency and prove that the Birthers are heroes rather than loonies, he had given up that dream by the time he entered a guilty plea and backed up a not guilty plea with a technicality.

In Liverpool, they revelled in being on the "hard" rather than the "loony left" – eschewing the "lesbian wrestling" tendencies of metropolitan comrades, he recalls.

Lisa laughs, "I'd rather be a loony and alive".

Perhaps this is because we have grown used to the security threat from religious extremists and tend to view their far-right counterparts as a loony fringe, rather than rational agents who are using violence to achieve certain goals.

She can plausibly claim that the upshot of extending protection against appearance discrimination to other states and cities would be not a "barrage of loony litigation" but rather a solution in a limited number of rankly unfair cases.

Not the loony, ranting figure Pound eventually became, but rather the innovative and uncompromising modernist he was in his prime.

Instead, she called Lewinsky "a narcissistic loony tune".

In the absence of such a declaration, Obama risks surrendering the narrative to such loonies as the conservative website that linked to the Rather interview, but only to add the damning headline, "Dan Rather: When Egypt Goes Completely Radical, Blame Obama".

Prague in the 21st century seems no more prey than any other great city to sex tourism, galumphing Germans, loonies out on licence or American trust-fund BoBos (Bourgeois Bohemians); rather, it seems a place that is enjoying its day in the sun, literally when we were there - hotter than Nairobi and Nice, Tangier and Tenerife in the first week of May.