loony
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Still, the loony nature of the entire concept is such that you can imagine a fan base forming, like mold in a flooded basement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In remixing one of cinema’s most revered classics with singular comedic flair, Wain has made a contender for his best film that succeeds by tributing his own loony industry.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
In 2020, people went loony for the PlayStation 5 and the Popeyes chicken sandwich in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
And I don’t think his successor will match those heights, even if he or she isn’t quite as loony as we’re speculating.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
While the conspiracy theories were initially dismissed as far-fetched, if not downright loony, the word on the street turned out to be right, at least to a point.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Everyone thinks they can do it: players, parents, students, boosters, administrators, TV yappers, dogs, cats, radio loonies, and sports columnists at financial newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Being from Canada, God’s own country, I feel bad for Americans because leaving loonies and toonies under pillows is so much easier than carefully wadding up paper money.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2018
Think how many loonies that would fetch now.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2017
It’s not so much about separating the loonies from the slightly manic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010
Wounded Tommies, gassed Arabs, some women and children, and a few lunatics, genuine cock-eyed loonies from the 11 asylum.
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
It’s possible it’d be even loonier than what we have now.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
What we knew was already so nuts that it's hard to believe it could be any loonier --- but it is.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
And a delightful closing-credits sequence full of Badu outtakes gives us a glimpse of the looser, loonier comedy we could’ve more fully enjoyed if the film weren’t so committed to its dousing-the-spitfire formula.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2019
Yes, in its loonier moments this movie is exactly that awesome, although I can't decide whether it's setting out to be the "Showgirls" of medieval-fairy tale movies or simply getting there by accident.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2011
Chuchu might have stepped from one of Garcia Marquez's loonier chapters.
From Time Magazine Archive
She added that "one of the looniest proposals on the table is that you can actually cut down forests to turn into furniture" - with companies claiming they store carbon.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
He’s the looniest character — primarily because he’s so out of touch with what’s been happening in the world — and yet he’s also the most endearingly human.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2017
And in perhaps his looniest promise, he can have Noah living at Yaddo by the end of the week — for as long as he wants!
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2015
The idea of Emmerich, one of Hollywood’s looniest big-budget auteurs, taking on a project this certifiably bananas was somehow thrilling.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2011
“We had to pick the looniest of the bunch, didn’t we?”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
