madman
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Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Gale, must have been as much of a madman savant as Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown to compress so much plot into every frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
But heavy metal’s favorite madman leaves us with his reminder that “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.”
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025
It's only the maniacal laughter in the fading bars that suggests this outlook is the purview of a madman.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
I wouldn’t recommend the madman strategy for managing the global economy.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
“A madman has destroyed our treasures. If we do not rebuild Jewry in America, we will die as a people.”
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
He’d minnowed through sunburned madmen on winding Alpine passes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Yohji is one of fashion’s great madmen and I wanted to take the trousers to someone who would look at it as a job and not a bizarre art piece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
There are few more efficient ways to unleash the demons, madmen, and ghosts hidden in the darkest crevices of the human psyche than to inject anxiety into our imaginations.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
“Thousands of laws on the books … have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts,” Abbott said.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
“They should have been as brothers, both fatherless and sharing their sorrows. Why must they rage, both of them, like madmen? There is no sense in it!”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
