How To Use Lunatic In A Sentence

D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
Damn it I must seem like I'm raving like a lunatic about the red menace.
The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.
This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies.

Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
I'm very grateful to find others like yourself who have overcome and continue to combat these fear ridden lunatics that try to subjugate our society to their truly malevolent goals.
It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to pachydermal vitriol, then you will unfortunately be left with a corrupt, morally bankrupt set of lunatics. McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
(Mr. Rose's meddling with Joyce's use of the Miltonic "woful" has reverberated all the way to Beijing where translator Sylvan Nathans noticed I had called Stephen Dedalus the "woful lunatic. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
‘It's getting you back to the good old days when you used to organize rave-ups for two or three thousand lunatics in an empty warehouse somewhere? ‘laughed Syd.’
This lunatic in a white van pulled out right in front of me!
I would hate to have to share my dorm room with someone who either thinks I'm some kind of freak or a lunatic.
The shots of her grinning like a lunatic on the beach, or posed in stockings and basque, were not enough.
Every afternoon, the lepers would gather at the fence to mock the lunatics as they were let out for their exercise, performing their strange dances and shouting at unseen persecutors.
Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions? Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
I didn't shower for at least 3 days and roamed the drugstore aisles like a crazed lunatic.
When everything that's going on on-screen is so chaotic and crazy, it doesn't help when it's cut together with such lunatic randomness.
If not, what does it take to convince you that you're providing a soapbox to an unstable lunatic?
A dimension where everyone lives in climate controlled gated estates and they don't like lost midwestern lunatics.
Ron Paul, the one the media and rabid neocons have called a lunatic, is the only sensible candidate in this race. michael Paul set to hold separate rally during Republican convention
And then there's the "Get Today's Puzzles" button, a simple but indispensible tool that makes being a lunatic cruciverbalist that much easier. Six Letters, Magical Device
He had known it, the rest of his friends were raving lunatics.
Cutting a path through the thickets of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and lunatic theorising that have grown up around the symbol of the Grail is no easy task.
Everyone you know here is now either dead, a psychopathic killer out for blood, or a lunatic with about a hundred personalities.
George A. Romero's 1973 original was an underbudgeted thriller about a Pennsylvania town in the grip of a bloody nightmare: Biological weapons accidentally dumped in the water supply, turning the locals into lunatics. 'A Prophet': The Crime Epic Reborn
Technically, the old lunatic hadn't retired, he was just on stress leave.
To forfeit liberties because of the lone act of a lunatic is an especially crude response to a simple, if immense, crime. Balkinization
On the right is the first victim, the lunatic who had lived his last moments in fear of death, and had sadly found it after seeking refuge in my asylum.
Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.
Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her. Home
You're driving on the wrong side of the road, you lunatic!
There were also in Baghdad numerous colleges of learning, hospitals, infirmaries for both sexes and lunatic asylums.
Another Year Five pupil disagreed with the laws, and said: ‘In this world there are serial killers, madmen, and lots of other lunatics.’
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
This guy was a clown on one hand but a legitimate musician and a passionate feeling person and also a libidinous lunatic and also not stupid. A Lyrical Part a Musical Father Plays Best
I think being described as a lunatic is worthy of my wall of compliments Total Bollocks
The old brass and faded paper in this exhibition are the physical leftovers of a grand, almost lunatic pursuit of perfection.
I could not at the moment recall Enoch's appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic: - The Deadlocked City
There have been many other dissenting voices protesting the sale of public sector companies but these have been largely disregarded as the predictable ravings of the lunatic Left.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C.S. Lewis
He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
In 1924, the name of the hospital changed from Lunatic Asylum to a less stigmatic Mysore Mental Hospital.
Into the camps fana-lunatics we give You some crayons to decorate your ‘churches’… Think Progress » Talk Host Gallagher: ‘Round Up’ Olbermann, Damon, And ‘Put Them In A Detention Camp’
Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry.
They are a tight-knit community with people of status at the helm, but even their best efforts cannot control the lunatic, bullying, and loutish few.
In the darkness, a lunatic warbled nonsense and a hungry madman babbled on about food.
Countless lunatics, criminals, and other undesirables were photographed in the genuine belief that the results would aid science.
‘We have arrived at a lunatic situation where there is one law for one group and a different law for others,’ he said.
I am a does not contain any additives lunatic.
On a road whose width barely allows two cars to pass, this lunatic came hurtling round a blind corner, narrowly missing me.
My guess is that he's either a known criminal or an escaped lunatic.
You know the lunatics have taken over the asylum when a climatologist is the action hero of a movie. Several Days After the Day After Tomorrow. Or Thursday. « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
What happens if you break all the rules and throw your reputation behind a lunatic scheme to let people hear world-class classical music for the price of a couple of pints?
And if they dismiss you as some kind of lunatic, cross them off your holiday list and go spend the money you would have spent on their gift on yourself.
To Britain, this may sound like the ravings of lunatics.
Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
Demands for a separate Siberia are confined for now to the lunatic fringe.
Were an alleged lunatic standing as a defendant in a criminal suit to use one-tenth of the amount of ingenuity and conscious direction of his symptoms that the average paranoiac uses, he would furnish the champions of the idea of malingering of mental disease with enough material to convict a dozen lunatics. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
These "protestors" at the Town Hall events are the same lunatics that attended Palin rallies and screamed slurs at Obama. Poll: No change in Obama's approval on health care
The frustration is so great that the black character believes that he might wind up in a lunatic cell, driven crazy by the insane demands.
But that didn't work - I instinctively chose the gobby lunatics, with the intention of making myself feel moderate, sensible and lovely.
I smile as I say the word lunatic, hoping to cushion the remark. Water Witches
Pinchot's funny accent work is quite unexpectedly perfect for the Dupin stories, featuring as they do the semi-hysterical Prefect of the Paris police, "G____," who is wont to burst into peals of lunatic laughter whenever Dupin calls his sagacity into question. Boing Boing
Also ineligible are undischarged bankrupts, lunatics, and anyone who has been sentenced to more than three months' imprisonment over the previous five years, or convicted of illegal electoral practices.
Those lunatics believe Bill Buckley was a liberal and anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a commie. Think Progress » Scott Brown Claims That The Stimulus Has Not Created ‘One New Job’
But, for once, I was the lunatic thrill-seeker and she was the one green in the gills. Binky Philips: How About a Spin Around Daytona Speedway, Hoss?
The gridder cults cover a wide political spectrum from environmental lunatics to anti-abortion assassins to right wing luddites determined to gut the liberal robot equality laws. Art & Me
_Another lunatic_, was the thought that flashed through my mind; another lunatic, the slave of a single idea. The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Or perhaps he should test the lunatic theory that alcohol promotes everything it shouldn't amongst non-drinkers.
Actually Dr William Lane Craig if this is to whom you refer has "berated" apologists for using the fallacious Liar, Lunatic, Lord argument. Time To End The Kindergarten Revolution
Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed. Canada and the States
But when this lunatic said it, they could precognize it too! Talents, Incorporated
That is one of the burdens of being a large, continent-sized democracy: the lunatic fringes are kookier, their clashes more heated and their forum that of the nation as a whole. Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not
Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.
Officers will crack down on lunatic motorists who speed or drive too close to the car in front.
Her son thinks she's an absolute raving lunatic.
"For years, I was a raving lunatic, " he says now.
Some of this is emanating from the usual sources on the lunatic left of journalism, but the allegations are retailed generally by those who want to believe them, under the guise of merely reporting disquiet.
Why do they want to see a raving lunatic, saying things he might regret?
Yet, even with those caveats, futurology is valuable as it can help us expose lunatics.
It’s therefore what I might call a clearheaded lunatic, who’s following a definite line of activity and is sufficiently circumspect to take precautions.” Maigret Afraid
Since none of the religious leaders seemed impressed by John's ministry, he had dismissed him as a lunatic, just another doomsday prophet, here today and gone tomorrow.
It was pretty much the usual crowd of unwashed jobless deadbeats, greenie lunatics, terrorist-sympathising intellectuals, and arts students.
The Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells his passion; and pays the didrachma. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision
Th 'row goin' on was suthin 'terrible; a' 'sylum full o' ravin 'lunatics on th' rampage couldn't have made more noise; an 'them that hadn't been hurt was beginnin' t 'feel as bad as them that was, when someone scrambles down th' companionway. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
Baseball history bulges with hundreds of other bounders, knaves, and lunatics who were not anywhere near as talented.
He has observed that all the other drivers on the road fall into one of two categories: idiots or lunatics.
In the rare cases of lunatic parents most places have emancipation provisions already, which should surely have acceleration clauses to allow for quick decisions in cases like this.
When you see a picture of some mud-spattered lunatic on a 4,000 mile ride through Africa, the lunatic tends to be sitting on a BMW.
They were no more willing than their English counterparts to go without a law of minors and lunatics and trusts and uses, discovery procedures and juryless trials, or doctrines that moderated the common law. Law and Politics in Newcastle's New York
This murderous lunatic could kill them both without a second thought.
If she be passionate, want of manners makes her a termagant and a scold, which is much at one with Lunatic. The Education of Women
At that point, some might even label these esteemed legal scholars lunatics.
The silent threat of violence hangs in the air and a bunch of lunatic architects were let loose with gallons of concrete in the 60's and 70's.
Meanwhile, 10,000 adventurers, lunatics, criminals, dreamers, and lost souls who had volunteered for Hitler's Charlemagne Division were sent to fight the Red Army in Pomerania. France's Downfall
As I made my way up 2nd Avenue, I noticed a raving lunatic weaving all over the sidewalk yelling and screaming unintelligibly.
If he had been psychotic before, he was a fuming lunatic now, Evelyn decided.
From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve. Archive 2007-02-01
Theorists in the first period included travelers, military physicians, and alienists who examined Algerian lunatics and collectively found them less prone to madness than civilized Europeans.
Is he comfortable irking the lunatic fringe because he is in a liberal state, or does he just have the "nads" that are missing with most Republicans? hold to the courage of their convictions, no matter the cost? OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
In fact, it breathed its first breath on the day after Christmas, 2007, when lunatic fringer Daniel Pipes concocted the smear in his Front Page magazine, ostensibly to keep the words "Muslim" and "Obama" in the same sentence for just a little bit longer. Evan Derkacz: Swiftboating Obama: Renowned Muslim Scholar Couldn't Publish Apostasy Response
Those of you who are not my best friend Julie, and therefore not lunatics and hardcore math geeks, may not know that today is Pi Day.
Now, if you still want to panic, you have all sorts of lunatics who'll be glad to take you as an acolyte in hopes that you'll be taken aboard the evacuation saucers when the planet is blasted into asteroidal debris. Month-end inventory (Jack Bog's Blog)
There was a steep rise in the number of wandering lunatics following the Erwadi tragedy.
From "birther" - led citizen grand juries charging the president with fraud, to gun-toting protesters outside presidential events, organized opposition to the new administration and its policies has taken on a decidedly radical bent, giving rise to the unthinkable: what if some lunatic, or a group of them, decides to transition from vicious rhetoric to violent action? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Lincolnshire roads tend to be populated with lunatic drivers on a Saturday evening, all hurrying to get there first and competing to see who'll be added to the casualty figures for the weekend.
Meanwhile, Bush ranted and raved like an angry lunatic throughout the second debate.
Your cackles filling the room, you just sat there laughing and raving like a lunatic.
Surely many people who try to attempt suicide are emotionally not entirely unstable - yet they're generally not fools or lunatics.
Witnesses all hand details to the dazed biker and give only old fashioned looks to the lunatic automobilist. Archive 2007-01-21
That was the question, of course, and I'd been cudgelling my wits for an answer - and in a heaven-sent flash it came to me, the perfect excuse that might also be my salvation, if only I played it properly; the one thing that might turn this selfish lunatic from his fatal resolve. THE NUMBERS
I am particularly intrigued by the prospect of working for another lunatic director with no interpersonal skills, management ability, or capacity for leadership.
‘freshman’ for proselyte; ‘mooned’ for lunatic; ‘foreshewer’ for prophet; ‘hundreder’ for centurion; Jewel ‘foretalk’, where we now employ preface; Holland ‘sunstead’ where we use solstice; ‘leechcraft’ instead of medicine; and another, ‘wordcraft’ for logic; ‘starconner’ English Past and Present
It's all there - the hatred, the bitterness, the lunatic conspiracy theories, the utter absence of any substantive discussion of policy issues.
This is a hateful thought for greenies, social engineers, media elites and intellectuals everywhere, but the lunatic love affair with the car remains in a state of steamy passion.
It ' s the lunatic fringe of the Animal Liberation Front which smashes the windows of butchers'shops, not ordinary members like us.
But these looked as if they were all lunatic or feeble-minded. CHAPTER V
This is abhominable which he would call abominable; it insinuateth me of insanie; _Ne intelligis, domine_? to make frantic, lunatic. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.
No, I don't concern myself with the fate of my ideas in the popular press - or in the cosmogenies of lunatics, to be more specific.
Well, Thomas Jefferson said the book of revelations was the ravings of a lunatic.
This murderous lunatic could kill them both without a second thought.
But any concert that features mock sadomasochism, skull-shaped maracas and an accordion player wearing tinted goggles is either the work of lunatics or of a band with a very healthy sense of irony indeed.
But seriously, is the story of a traumatized father searching to help his long-term comatose son at a strange clinic where the staff are all lunatics, an area motorcycle gang steals brain fluid, and a child's comic book features rape, murder, and lethal discrimination all that much lighter, bro? Jack O'Connell
Though I have some mental health issues, I am not a raving lunatic.
She continued to gape at him as if he was a runaway lunatic from a nearby mental asylum.
That, or there's some twisted sadist of a blind, jealous lunatic demon deceiving me.
Harris didn't understand why she felt this connection with the lunatic who'd kidnaped her, but he understood what she meant.
After asking respondents their names, addresses, ages and occupations it asks them to list the state of their mental health reporting whether they are deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, an imbecile or feeble-minded.
It is now a magnes microcosmi, or a magnet for attracting diseases and properties, and if it be placed in close contact with a criminal or lunatic, it will be filled with his essence of life, and may then be used as a means of infecting other people with his pernicious qualities. The Sorcery Club
Then there is the reference to the moon the term lunatic derives from luna, the Latin word for moon. Bedlam
This truly dynamic duo of old-school, street style, hip-hop lyricists from Pittsburgh rocked the house with a nickel bag of attitude and lunatic gyrations to spare.
What right'd you to put a ravin 'lunatic in with me, an' me sick an 'helpless? CHAPTER XXI
Back then, kilts were worn only by crypto - nationalists, lunatics on day release from the asylum or Gaels who hadn't quite come to terms with the fact that Flora MacDonald would never be returning to Skye.
She watched, with her mouth wide open, for about ten second before taking a deep breath, and letting out a string of curses, loud enough for random passers-by to think she was an insane lunatic.
Next to knowing the mind of an anarchist, perhaps the greatest value of this book lies in its bald, matter-of-fact narration of the unthinkable cruelty and lunatic management of our prisons. Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards
This is abhominable, -- which he would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic. Love's Labour's Lost
The editorial writer in The Lancet of December 22, 1866 was scathing about Mr Brown and about The Times, calling, with vigorous irony, for a "grand assize of clitoridectomy" at which the lunatic asylums of Europe would be cleared by means of what Mr Baker Brown "with the pardonable pride of an inventor, calls my invention". Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
Though I have some mental health issues, I am not a raving lunatic.
None of this sways the lunatic, however, and the boxes are printed.
“A sort of homicidal lunatic’s brothel in a crypt” was how Maurice Richardson characterized the temptingly ill-concealed psychopathology of the vampire legend, adding that Dracula in particular was “a kind of incestuous, necrophilous, oral, anal-sadistic all-in wrestling match”. What Would Buffy Think? « So Many Books
Who knew what kind of psychopathic lunatics crept around there?
This country has always had a soft spot for lovable eccentrics aka raving lunatics. Not a very well planned walk
This is abhominable, — which he would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
What sort of lunatic performer was this, driven to go on performing the same stunt, time after time, finally without any audience at all, entirely for his own pleasure?
The moment they put me in bed I was a raving lunatic.
One minute he's a hermit and the next he's a mentally challenged lunatic with sudden outbursts.
These men, who slaughtered English, gesticulated like lunatics, and fought one another's ideas with primitive anger, seemed somehow to be more alive than Mr. Morse and his crony, Mr. Butler. Chapter 13
They will presumably lead to some retraction of the lunatic version of markets that have been imposed by extreme reactionaries in recent years.
I would really prefer that people didn't see me as some sort of lunatic, although that is probably inevitable.
And then there are the rest of the lunatics who sign up.
A small smile touched her lips, her eyes alight with a lunatic fire.
The United Nations and NASA insist no one can own any part of the moon, but interplanetary auctioneers are selling parts of it at a lunatic price of £10 per acre.
Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
he has been an irresistible lunatic with a strange reservoir of undying confidence, peculiar sensitivity and the kind of morality that insists on "earmuffs" for a child's ears while a frat party is planned. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
As bloggers become to become mainstream and not just fringe lunatics muttering in tiny cabals, power will concentrate according to network power laws.
Mother suggested blood-letting, but I believe it weakens rather than strengthens me—a lunatic opinion, as far as Mother is concerned. Exit the Actress
Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
There is, blatantly, far too much pampering these days of egos founded not on a record of achievement but on the bloated salaries considered normal amid the lunatic values that have invaded the national sport.
T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.
Demands for a separate Siberia are confined for now to the lunatic fringe.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C.S. Lewis
The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
It ' s the lunatic fringe of the Animal Liberation Front which smashes the windows of butchers'shops, not ordinary members like us.
Your guy could be the same, or he could be a lunatic rapturist. Prepare ye the way of the Lord
I know the Democrats are capable of their own foolishness and have earned their own marks with lunatics on their own side and hare-brained ideas for how to govern, but compared to the precise choreography, magnificent sets, and beautifully timed entrances and exits that would make Zeigfeld jealous, the Democrats come across like a summer camp skit. GOP Follies
I really enjoy hearing from you all (even the complete lunatics).
That's another printmaker that has me pegged as a lunatic.
It is, in short, not the sort of thing you'd expect a muscle-bound, tattooed bleeding lunatic to be publishing.
It is stifling free speech of decent and reasonable people without discernably restraining the genuinely hate-filled lunatics who do have violence in mind. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, like such words as spastic, idiot, and lunatic, also is a word of abuse. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
Mine assumes that while saying "he owes me $500" makes me look like a welcher, saying "he owes me five million dollars" makes you look like a lunatic - so you won't say it. Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As a Viet Nam vet, I am outraged that this lunatic is allowed to smear veterans and other patriotic americans under your auspices. Think Progress » Coulter on Murtha: He Longs â€œTo See U.S. Troops Shot, Humiliated”
At first, two or three miles may seem well nigh impossible - but eventually such a distance will become easy, and so it goes until running, say, ten miles is no longer a lunatic notion.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C.S. Lewis
And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The weapons on the wall had been used in actual homicides and were provided by Chicago policemen; the skulls by an alienist at a nearby lunatic asylum, the blankets by a member who had acquired it while covering a battle between the army and the Sioux. Hometown News: The Ballad of Ray and Rose
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
Watching this is like doing a crossword puzzle written by a dyslexic lunatic.
Initially, he's told he's too old and then parcelled off into the Halberdiers, a regiment almost entirely comprised of oddballs, lunatics, misfits and sociopaths.
He doesn't deserve threats and abuse along these lines from a bunch of lunatics denouncing our democratic process.
These are not the ravings of a lunatic person nor the dream of a crazy idealist.
This sensibility and honesty, of course makes him damaged goods with with the fringy lunatics running the GOP. Think Progress » Romney: ‘I find it hard to disagree with Rush Limbaugh.’
There he encounters a lunatic who is obsessed with murder and who appears to be dripping blood.
With a plain black shirt, black shorts, and an orange overshirt, Carly more resembled a well-mannered teenager than a lunatic sports fan.
Vague recollections of Edgar Allan Poe and the works of Charles Reade had surrounded the term lunatic asylum with an atmosphere of feather beds and brutality; the word lunatic conjured up in his mind the idea of a man obviously insane. The Man Who Lost Himself
Just such babblement as that you can read in very learned books, and stuff like that has actually been taught in colleges, and nobody was sent to the lunatic asylum! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
After being criticized for releasing stridently homophobic recordings by the comedian Andrew Dice Clay, the label declined an album by Houston rappers the Geto Boys that included a track, “Mind of a Lunatic,” which described murdering a woman and having sex with her corpse. Fortune’s Fool
After asking respondents their names, addresses, ages and occupations it asks them to list the state of their mental health reporting whether they are deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, an imbecile or feeble-minded.
a raving lunatic
His Twitter account lists Tehran, Iran, as his fictional hometown and provides the following self-description: "Writer, creative director, Irish bouzouki player & supervised lunatic. Tom Matlack: Where Have All the Mad Men Gone?
I was about to turn into a crazy psychotic lunatic and there was nothing I could do to stop myself.
Why we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the lunatic fringes is beyond me. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 19, 2006
The show sometimes pushes too hard for shock value, especially where Macy and an agoraphobic lunatic played by Joan Cusack are concerned, but that kind of overindulgence comes with the pay-cable territory. Ask Matt: NCIS Without Gibbs? Plus Human Target, Shameless and midseason TV
I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics. The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
The tiny lunatic fringe that has jumped on the anti-war bandwagon could cost this country dearly.
‘Only yesterday I nearly missed the ferry and had to pedal like a lunatic to get on,’ he laughed.
And by the looks of it, this was one of those lunatics.
At once, O untravelled reader, you see how lunatic and blasphemous is the realm I am trying to describe to you in the language of John Barleycorn's tribe. Chapter 35

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