madhouse
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The team was undecided on how well Mellencamp’s biggest hits—sepia-tinted odes to small-town America—fit today’s college football madhouse cathedrals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The follow-up continues this kookiness with a madhouse spoof of Hallmark holiday saccharine in which a woodpile becomes a homicidal monster.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Lurking behind Foreman’s madhouse phantasmagorias is the mind of the artist interrogating its own secret chambers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Mr Acciardo described the scene as a "madhouse" when first responders arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
It awakened me, for the screech of the iced limbs rubbing each other and the snapping of the ice were like the sounds from a madhouse.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The burnt-orange and Sooner-red halves of the Cotton Bowl had alternated as madhouses.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2021
“The incarceration of freethinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018
It would be a total madhouse but, remembering the previous total madhouses, you could go: OK, we just have to hold out for another 15 minutes and it will recede.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere among the madhouses of Europe there is a lunatic.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
