How To Use Demented In A Sentence
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Polonius insisted that Hamlet had become demented, and cautioned Ophelia to keep her distance.
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I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan.
Archive 2006-04-01
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She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
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Unless Boomer had been concealing it for some demented reason, some kind of lamebrained joke.
Skinny Legs and All
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The term "sundowning" refers to a state of confusion at the end of the day and into the night, often leading to a state of increased agitation, activity and even borderline demented behavior.
BroadwayWorld.com South Carolina Stories
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Hoping that the nonmetal handle would interrupt a lethal electrical shock, in seconds I was hacking at the conduit like a demented ax murderer.
Silver Zombie
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To my possibly demented mind there did seem to be something unique, even comical about the framing of the issues.
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Conversations may be in whispers or, often, in demented shouting contests.
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Its rough and edgy production makes the record sound perfect for the demented brand of new wave garage rock the band were practicing at the time.
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Of course, we are told we can choose not to take hormones and end up asexual, crippled, diseased, demented, dead, or simply old.
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Rosamund utter dementedness, considering this woman's position, and
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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Lead poisoning also known as "saturnism" for its violent and demented character that is associated with the god Saturn has been identified at least before the fifth century before Christ.
Scientific Blogging
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It looked pretty but the plot development concerning the demented sex-starved soldiers didn't ring true for me at all.
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Whenever demented patients travel, it is safe to assume their confusion will worsen for the duration of the trip.
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In development for several years, the character, named "E," is designed to interact with humans in a way that sounds similar to a chatbot, albeit a really demented chatbot.
Boing Boing
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Frankie did a little caper around the back of the van, on all fours like a demented monkey.
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The demented mockney charmer needs to keeps positive though.
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They can make even the most demented crackpots seem so… civilized.
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Sometimes, the "zooty" was my pharm-fueled metronome as I danced dementedly through a gauzy awareness in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat.
Barry Michael Cooper: Requiem For The Zooted
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“Heeeere’s Johnny!” he announces dementedly when he manages to whack a sizeable hole in the bathroom door, now aligning himself with the comedic king of American late-night television who, it should not go unnoted, is well known for being unable to cultivate a successful marriage.
2009 August
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For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease, and mongolism has become Down syndrome; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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He was drinking grape Tang and vodka, a demented dormitory drink when mixers were scarce.
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It's a delusion amounting to dementedness to suppose, that with the people inside our defences, we can be taming them and tricking them.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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I like the universities in fantasy novels by Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett and so on, they are basically EXACTLY like real-world universities only their dementedness is revealed.
Archive 2005-07-01
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At this point you may be asking, why it is important to train a workforce that will be experts in taking care of demented residents.
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I went to the LOLBuilder at I Can Has Cheezburger and went through the torrent of photos being submitted, captioning as dementedness and snark came to me.
LOLMAGGIES
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The internet has made available all types of sick and demented images that feed certain desires that would otherwise lay dormant in a person who is prone to becoming a sex offender.
Discourse.net: Minimal Human Decency Abridged
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He writes in despair, and the result is a demented book that no publisher will handle.
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Then there's the other kind of anthologist, the Disch kind, the weirdo, the iconoclast, the demented hedgehog to steal Archilochus of Paros's analogy.
Film Structure
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A person, once normal, who loses his/her marbles, is properly called demented.
ProWomanProLife » Voting begins now
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I've been nearly demented with worry about you.
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Then the speakers seem to come alive with demented directional droning.
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In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
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I quite like utilising my preference vote to suit my own needs rather than those of the various party flacks who always wave their how-to-vote cards at me like demented stockbrokers on election day.
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In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
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Several installations in this vast show involve George Bush in compromising positions with pigs: in one, a pair of mechanically gyrating pink silicone versions of Bush sodomise the animals, while in Pig Island 2003/10, the same scenario is accompanied by depictions of Angelina Jolie and sundry pirates in what looks like the detritus-filled studio of a demented satirist.
Evening Standard - Home
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High level of disability is associated with major depression, in both demented and nondemented people.
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The hammering and pounding made a terrific noise, as if the old men were tuning dementedly a giant xylophone.
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Some are also taking a soft-headed look, as if they were already demented beyond grappling with reality.
Raging Against Aging
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She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
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It even seems to be straying into lurid, B-movie territory as we enter an all too familiar asylum where the patients haunt the corridors, drugged or demented.
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Howard is an odious skippet of turbod flatulence, but hey, he makes you laugh, so he can say whatever, regardless of how perverted and demented it may be.
Op-ed: Farewell to the FCC « BuzzMachine
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There was something demented and deranged about him, a little dark, a little disturbing, that actually scared her.
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No telling what profanity or dementedness we're saying in coyote" agreed Myra.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994
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The orchestra whoops, lets out war cries, and dances a demented reel.
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I wondered, as I body-popped beside him, what the DJ thought of this middle-aged bloke in a sensible woolly jumper and pressed trousers, pogoing like a demented rhino.
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Reaction to the wreck showed an almost demented optimism about the venture.
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Louisa stopped navigating the steps to stare at me while I bounced all around the living room like a demented idiot.
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Forget the unwieldy title and worthy subject matter, this is a breathless piece of reportage, like a vintage New Yorker feature put to film: expansive, comic, digressive and ever so slightly demented.
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From Fata Morgana, his essay on "demented colonialism" and the Sahara desert, to the calcified womb of the Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog has made it his mission to respiritualise landscape, to allow fear, awe and wonder to reinhabit our perception of the natural world.
Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit
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The notion that President Obama is some sort of "anti-colonial" radical is, as they say, demented, considering the fact that the White House has largely accepted the Rubinian diktat that rescuing America from its financial decline can only be achieved by re-enabling the same rogue financiers to get back to their business of bamboozlement.
Dinesh D'Souza Docks In America's Safest Harbor For Lackwits [UPDATE]
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I had not realized thitherto that even a demented sleen could be so wicked.
Magicians of Gor
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Following these rules has dragged even the big networks into broadcasting drivel in their news bulletins in a demented and ultimately unproductive effort to keep their viewer numbers high.
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As Earth orbits the sun, the tubes are lashing through space like water from a demented lawn sprinkler.
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I feel the need to comment on the dementedness of the human species every once in a while.
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He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety.
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Bush Jr, inevitably; the warped, sometimes demented Nixon; but John F Kennedy, hopelessly in thrall to a world of lust, isn't pavilioned in praise either.
American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton
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For, demented as he is, he is sublimely unaware that he is deranged.
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Her curiously juvenile prattle — "The way it began, it was a bit like a repeat of earlier," she begins one anecdote — and her worshipful obsession with all things Hailshamite quickly make it clear that Kathy, if not demented, is at least imperfectly removed from her schoolgirl self; and as she rabbits on, the oddness of her schooldays becomes increasingly apparent.
New Fiction
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This is the language of hysterical, demented brainwashing.
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From cat to zombie to Mitchum to Aldo in the snow, you find yourself falling in some kind of ambrosial, demented love.
Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
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It is a history of ceaseless, demented innovation: the first time a blue twist of salt was included; the arrival of ready-salted (the sliced bread moment); the cheese-and-onion Tayto; the invention of prawn-cocktail powder; crinkle cut, thick cut, square cut, jacket on, "gourmet," kettle fried ...
Britishness Acquires an Extra Crunch
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But, it could be a problem with older, demented patients, or those who are unconscious.
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Not to let one musical style last for long, he soon ditched the guitar, grabbed the mic and started back in with some demented rapping.
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‘Pierre Lunaire’ is a clear highlight, a dark, demented meditation on obsession cased in sheeny synths and vibrating turntable scratches.
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It sounds like an orchestra of demented bassoonists playing at full tilt.
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What about John McCain accepting the indorsement of that bigot Hagee, who thinks in his demented mind that God caused Katrina to punish people in New Orleans.
Obama says he's 'outraged' with pastor's comments
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Your use of the word 'demented' is not totally surprising, given how pervasive and entrenched the mythology about the poet is out there (and how easy it has been for centuries to automatically label gifted, creative women who behave differently as 'demented').
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He sounds like a slightly demented five-year-old child, while at the same time looking like anybody's mild-mannered uncle.
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Too bad dr demented is too dense to understand what you are trying to say to them ..
Think Progress » Rove Falsely Claims Bush Administration Never Said Iraqi Oil Revenue Would Help Pay For War
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She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
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And in some defense of my dementedness I did draw on combination of art found here and there.
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He really whaled her, screaming and yelling and carrying on like a demented guy.
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No one returns from dementedness to tell us what it is - or is not.
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Health care professionals commonly rely on feeding tubes to supply nutrition to these severely demented patients.
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Come doon oot o 'that this meenit, Jock Gordon, ye gomeral!" cried Meg, shaking her fist at the uncouth shape twisting and singing against the sunset sky like one demented.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Her hilarious and demented crafts projects -- like the meat helmet, the everybody in icicle lights campaign, and the stink-beetle cross stitch -- never cease to amaze me.
Boing Boing: October 28, 2001 - November 3, 2001 Archives
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In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
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She'd worn uncommon well; middle sixties and still shaped like a Turkish belly-dancer, with the same guileless idiot smile and wondrous blue eyes that had set me slavering when she was sixteen - she'd performed like a demented houri then, and who was to say she'd lost the taste in half a century?
Watershed
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His knees buckle as he automatically checks his flies are fastened, coughs and addresses us, increasingly demented.
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She-Devils is a demented delicacy where the girl's just want to fight, frug, and fornicate as part of their ‘fun.’
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She was almost demented with grief.
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He writes in despair, and the result is a demented book that no publisher will handle.
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The truly demented can enter the simulation sitting astride a missile madly arching toward its target.
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Sid broke into demented laughter.
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They hold a twisted allure to the more demented members of any society.
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Bonk-bash-bonk he goes, like some demented axeman, and nothing will stop him.
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They began to bob their heads up and down from beneath the window like demented puppets.
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Miss Dowd had been murdered in her cage by a demented mooch and her picture held a dreadful fascination for Rowena.
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They fell in the gaily lit hall with a flutter like demented birds attempting flight.
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Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros.) [as demented narratively as it is visually; great fun]; XXY (Lucia Puenzo) [gathered festival props but not much else; absorbing both in its opening, a kind of literalized Cronenberg feast of meat being sliced and anatomies and wounds on display galore, then develops into a surprisingly sensitive and universal examination of inchoate teen sexual longing; the fact that it's about a hermaphrodite ultimately seems kind of irrelevant];
The House Next Door
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But, when we do feel a slight bit dazed, it seems as though this dementedness is part of the film's charm.
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Her town of 10,000 basically thinks that all elderly demented people should be institutionalized instead of cared for at home.
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This kind of demented shoegazing stoner prog is all about the stomping rhythms and the elasticated, mind-bending guitars.
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We report 2 previously non-demented patients who developed acute confusional state, abulia, and moderate cognitive decline after the occurrence of an infarct in the capsular genu.
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From the first it appeared obvious to all that the dementedness which characterised the little wizened yellow-faced woman was of a much more pronounced type than Con the Quare One's.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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Others might view such people as demented or delusional or megalomaniacal.
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The word 'demented' like 'nutter' or 'lunatic' is a real barrier to sufferers, such as myself, in discussing mental illness, and so overcoming the terrible awkwardness that makes us feel like social lepers.
The Guardian World News
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one of those muddle-headed, stupid yokels with little or no mind," who, according to the townsman, "moulder" in country villages "till they become demented.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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The starting points were all the mad men in the sun, those desert fathers and pillarists, the strange, demented visionaries who were laughed at.
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The people that surrounded her were nothing but dolls, playthings of a sick man who had stuffed them like hunting trophies, sewn back together to fill in a demented dream of perfection.
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screaming dementedly
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Mr. Gülen's followers say the real conspirators are instead members of the so-called Deep State — what they call a demented, multitentacled secret alliance of high-level figures in the military, the intelligence services, the judiciary and organized crime.
A Nation of Conspiracies
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On the flip side, cognition has improved in demented or impaired people given nutritional support.
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One is the text, the other the idiotic design - lots of totally meaningless diagonal lines and demented cut-outs dropped in irritating positions on potentially really nice and informative photos.
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But the fire in Manchester City's pocket rages on nonetheless, and in a demented fluster they will convince Benfica to take £35m for moderate midfielder Ramires and then gazump Chelsea by offering £25m for the £15m-rated Santos striker Neymar.
Football transfer rumours: Raúl to Newcastle United?
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Sure enough, its reputation for unorthodoxy has gradually brought together a louche bunch of demented geniuses.
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Until a week ago, he was demented, rigid, incontinent, unable to talk, swallow or blink his eyes.
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I probably looked more than a little demented, come to think of it.
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But today, we most often hear the word martyr used to describe Islamic radicals who commit unspeakable mass atrocities against innocent people while dementedly chanting “Allahu Akhbar, Allahu Akhbar, Allahu Akhbar” “Allah is greatest” to drown out what little is left of their conscience.
HOW EVIL WORKS
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The diagnosis of an independent depressive disorder becomes difficult in the demented patient.
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FDR was branded as a sick demented dictator, Truman was called a boorish drunk, Kennedy was a spineless commie dupe.
The Chimes at Midnight
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She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
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Nursing a demented person is an all-consuming task.
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She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
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Until a week ago, he was demented, rigid, incontinent, unable to talk, swallow or blink his eyes.
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Caretakers and physicians often project sensations of hunger and thirst onto severely demented patients with poor oral intake.
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She dementedly begins cackling as she pulls out an antenna and pushes a big red button.
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I looked down and saw that he was eating some demented form of French fries with ketchup squirted all over them.
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It takes some acting craft for him to pull off the feat of wearing the outlandish sweater vests, demented tams, garish checks and plaids without ever seeming as if he were wearing a costume.
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Mallard had got the vertigo, he reported the gambler's launch on dementedness to the earl.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete
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If he lived to 200, he would never understand females, and the demented way their brains worked.
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I wish I could sentence all the demented government agents who dreamed this up-and any teacher politically-correct enough to inform on a child-to thirty days solitary confinement, on a diet not of bread and water, but of schav and blood sausage.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Nursing a demented person is an all-consuming task.
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She backed out of the office barely able to contain herself from skipping and jumping about like some demented grasshopper.
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As if drunk, or stoned or demented, I jumble everything up, use wrong words or leave gaps in sentences that trail off to nowhere.
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If you want to lay down a memory of a route, for example, you might imagine that you are being chased along it by a demented knifeman rather than cruising it in the safety of your car.
From the Department of What's-Wrong-With-This-Picture:
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It is precisely because an important difference exists between a normal brain and the brain of someone who is seriously demented or unreachably deluded that such people are not considered responsible for crimes they might commit.
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She then twaddles on a bit about getting him at the Gates of St Peters, sings her own demented versions of My Ding-A-Ling and Devil Woman and gets generally unpleasant.
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She flailed her limbs and screamed, looking like a poor demented bird.
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To me, it seemed like demented torture, and not very flattering.
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There is no doubt that some depressed patients find more disturbed demented patients distressing.
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Using a technology called proteomics, the researchers examined 2,000 proteins found in the spinal fluid of 34 people who died with autopsy-proven Alzheimer's, comparing it with the spinal fluid of 34 non-demented people.
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Deep set eyes and a long face made him look like a demented scientist.
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Your name will become synonymous with sheer dementedness, as lesser men whisper your name in terror.
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The noise they make is a screeching mess of distorted guitars, a bass so loud the walls are almost shaking, and vocals best described as screaming like a demented metalhead trying to get a week off work by self-inflicted laryngitis.
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All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study.
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Not that even the most demented angry mob would want to meet her in the flesh: either there's something wrong with my reception or she's starting to resemble the result of a unholy union between Ronald McDonald and a blow-dried guinea pig.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Blind Date
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I swear dr demented is going to drive me insane one of these days …
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism
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No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul.
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Whoever committed these crimes was demented and sick.
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Various scholars and genre icons (Dick Miller, Vampira) also chime in with sometimes half-baked sociocultural analyses, but this 2000 documentary is most valuable for its harvest of excerpts from the lurid and long-forgotten "roughies" and "nudie cuties" of the 60s and from Corman's loose adaptations of Poe (some of which featured a fresh-faced though already demented Jack Nicholson). 90 min.
Chicago Reader
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His rhetoric is humorless and portentous - he always sounds to me like a slightly demented Episcopal bishop.
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Nilsson et al found increased plasma homocysteine along with decreased serum folate, B12, and creatinine levels in 69 percent of demented and non-demented psychogeriatric patients.
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Finally, at the age of 33, the demented fury that drove him on has subsided and other priorities have kicked in.
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A lot of the cumulative brain trauma leaves players demented in their fifties is actually sustained during practice.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Christine O'Donnell, Condoms, and Concussions
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It spat and hissed, coiling about on the ground in a demented and tortured agony.
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Less severely demented patients and black and Hispanic patients were more likely to stay in the home.
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The music reflects this, too, with distorted bursts of treated guitar giving the otherwise breezy melody a demented cast.
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The interpretation of this passage is that ben Azzai died prematurely, worn out by his activities in mystical and theosophic speculation; ben Zoma became demented thereby; Elisha, contemptuously referred to as Acher (the other), became an apostate; but Akiba was unaffected.
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
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Others might view such people as demented or delusional or megalomaniacal.
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Too much to do, too little done, too many ideas, I keep hopping from one to the other like a demented grasshopper, but slower.