Sentence examples for took crazy from inspiring English sources

Even the best bankers took crazy risks.

Roger Ebert, writing in The Chicago Sun-Times, called it "a throwback to the days when directors took crazy chances, counting on their audience to keep up with them".

Rummy's memoir, "Known and Unknown," is an unnerving reminder of how the Iraq hawks took crazy conditionals and turned them into urgent imperatives to justify what the defense chief termed "anticipatory self-defense".

Perhaps closer to this is the French volcanologist husband-and-wife team Maurice and Katia Krafft, who took crazy risks to get their stunning closeup photographs of lava flow and in 1991 died in the attempt.

"He took the Trumpisms and — some would say, not me — but some would say he took crazy to 11, if we borrow parlance from 'Spinal Tap,'" Scarborough said.

He profited from an industry that rejected decades of regulations and took crazy risks that a bubble could be sustained against all logic to the contrary, and that firm's could leverage themselves at unhealthy levels with no consequences.

I was taking crazy risks.

They're programmed to take crazy risks, so that's what they do.

He gets cuckoo, lets things bother him and he makes crazy passes and takes crazy shots.

Feeling as if you're taking crazy pills could be the result.

Or perhaps you know how far he can really take crazy, to brilliant and frightening effect in, say, "Full Metal Jacket" or "The Salton Sea".