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lunacy

[loo-nuh-see] / ˈlu nə si /


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“Bloodline” reminds me of the breed of darkly comic postwar novels by Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Harry Crews and others, in which regional manias stand in for a broader national lunacy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Where “I Think You Should Leave” operates like a jukebox, “The Chair Company” is a concept album extrapolating a single sight gag into a swirl of lunacy on par with an extended free jazz performance.

From Salon

But to qualify for the genre itself—and satisfy the base demands of the base—a movie is required to both accelerate toward lunacy and entertain a certain amount of mayhem.

From The Wall Street Journal

Is it hard, though, to freeze all the negativity and all the lunacy that has been directed at you?

From BBC

With a show like “And Just Like That,” faith in the series’ future is spun out of pure lunacy.

From Salon