madman
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“I didn’t know which madman it was going to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
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
His unpredictability is sometimes portrayed by his supporters after the fact as strategic - the so-called "madman" theory of foreign relations.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
It sounded like the voice of a madman.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Having evaded 12 homicidal masked madmen, madwomen, mad-cousins and mad-siblings, Sidney is now a married mother of three who prefers the last name Evans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
He’d minnowed through sunburned madmen on winding Alpine passes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
She was too old now to deal with madmen, although she still had no suspicion of his sanity.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
