Sentence examples for that lunatic from inspiring English sources

The relocation of the Eurostar terminal means British visitors will not be able to set off for Napoleonland from Waterloo – but the attraction does promise to afford the outsider that lunatic glimpse of national character which is the quintessence of all the best theme parks.

Luckily, that lunatic we were (sort of) chasing was faster than both of us.

It wasn't until the early 1900s that "lunatic asylums" even employed doctors.

Plus, that lunatic, Toni Periwinkle[sic], has earmarked $400,000-$400,000-$450,000t conservatives on the Southwest Side.

Only a lunatic would kill someone over a used pickup truck and that lunatic was "twisted and demented" Millard.

Indeed, recent work suggested that lunatic fringe (Lfng), a known modifier of Notch, promotes the lateral inhibition of neurogenesis, that Lfng loss of function by morpholino knockdown leads to increased expression of proneural genes and increased neurogenesis, and that transgenic overexpression of Lfng decreases neurogenesis [50].

According to Neal Gabler, the author of "Life: The Movie -- How Entertainment Conquered Reality," a federal censorship bill proposed in 1916 argued right from the get-go that lunatics might imitate the actions they saw on screen.

For many years he laboured among the insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital, advocating humane treatment for them on the ground that mental disorders were as subject to healing arts as physical ones; indeed, he held that insanity often proceeded from physical causes, an idea that was a long step forward from the old notion that lunatics are possessed by devils.

It is proverbial that lunatics, criminals and peers are banned from serving as MPs; but today in the Commons, the Conservative Gavin Barwell won cross party support for his efforts to cut through the tangle of contradictory and out of date legislation around the question of MPs' mental health.

At least skywatchers headed out to see Nov. 28's eclipse can breathe easy knowing that lunatics and werewolves are probably not on the prowl.

The promise of helping a franchise always elicits smiles and thumbs' up -- until the moment of truth, when the decision to allow this-or-that lunatic on staff is made.