Sentence examples for raving madman from inspiring English sources

Hardy Krüger, the distinguished German actor playing Rommel, warned me against playing him as a raving madman.

Throwing up his hands, he desperately telephones his producer Harvey Brickman John Turturroo), a raving madman who orders Felix to fix the movie.

Mr. Nice suggested that Mr. Milosevic was not a raving madman, but a calculating opportunist who manipulated Serb nationalism and the fears of Serbs as Yugoslavia crumbled in the early 1990's.

All the sources — especially Suetonius, whose "Twelve Caesars" is the basis for this catalogue of horrors — may portray Caligula as a raving madman, but Winterling puts this treatment in the context of classical history writing, which had a habit of charging those who had fallen from power with outrageous villainies.

Four years later, back at the Super Bowl, nobody can speak to that better than Lawrence Tynes, the kicker whose butchered field-goal attempt at the conclusion of regulation in the N.F.C. championship game in 2008 turned a red-faced Coughlin into a raving madman — and might have undone the coach's image makeover had Tynes not redeemed himself in overtime.

When raving madmen were sowing wrath in the hearts of the unemployed?" Who are "we" in the Divine Mirror?

When raving madmen were sowing wrath in the hearts of the unemployed?... "Good and evil, which were once as real as day and night, have become a blurred mist.

"It was the ravings of a madman".

Queensberry's accusations were at first regarded as the ravings of a madman, but received some credence when in the autumn of 1894 – Rosebery having meanwhile become prime minister – Drumlanrig shot himself.

He was the author of a wildly surrealist collection of short stories; a dreamlike play, "Ivona, Princess of Burgundia," which remained unperformed for decades after it was written; and a novel, "Ferdydurke," which is now recognized as a masterpiece of twentieth-century world literature, but was dismissed by establishment critics at the time as "the ravings of a madman".

The path through this complicated piece of life, which must have seemed so clear to Dorothy just a few days ago, sitting in her apartment in New York, was now as inscrutable as a piece of music could be when first confronted — a wild and alien language of signs that seemed like the ravings of some madman, until you put your hands on the keys and played one note, then the next, then the next.