madman
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To establish the right note of terror on a fog-strewn set by Arnulfo Maldonado that resembles the private chamber of a writer or madman, Page begins with Lady Macbeth’s chilling incantation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
“I knew the second that I poked my head up from my exile, I was probably going to be met by some madman charging at me with an ax,” Nuzzi said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
"Bibi acted like a madman," a White House official told the news website Axios.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
We can claim that he was just a nincompoop or a madman.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
It’s another thing to go elbow to elbow with a group of elite madmen barreling down an Alpine pass at 50 miles per hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
“My kid’s living on the coast, in town right now, so he can be safe from these armed madmen running around,” said Willow Creek grower Walter Wood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
“Daniel Brush is indistinguishable from many madmen in New York City,” a friend, the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux, wrote in an introduction to an illustrated collection of the artist’s work.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
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
“We had a fight, Jeth, about an hour ago. We fit like two madmen, I guess.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
