How To Use Madcap In A Sentence
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Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.
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Add some desperately unfunny writing and a guy who doesn't really know how to be madcap and… well, we've all learned a lesson.
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He's as busy as ever with his fingers in other people's pies: producing other artists, writing movie soundtracks, throwing off more or less madcap schemes.
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Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.
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By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
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Add it all up and you get closer to that 100 million without some madcap scheme or raid on public coffers.
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Songs like ‘Woof Woof, I'ma Goof’ and ‘I Gotta Rash’ also add to the madcap insanity.
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I did, however, see them tittering, shrieking, guffawing and hooting with laughter at the madcap slapstick that has become the trademark of these two spiky-haired, South Yorkshire clowns.
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He uses this new-found ability to help a detective solve crimes and bring down a madcap villain.
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Having secured two acting legends and a comic madcap, the rest of the casting fell into place.
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The madcap machines from blockbuster film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are winging and trundling their way to Bradford.
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Thus begins a madcap quest to unclothe five unfortunate elves and regain the transportation spell!
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So I decided to look to Hollywood, the cradle of crazy madcap money making schemes.
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They call this keeper 'The Crazy One'The tradition of the madcap Latin American goalkeeper began with Peru's "El Loco", Ramón Quiroga, memorably booked in the opposition half by officious English referee Pat Partridge during the 1978 finals.
Truth takes a battering in the great World Cup cliche game
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Does this all sound like another madcap scheme?
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The madcap machines from blockbuster film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are winging and trundling their way to Bradford.
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She said the government seems determined to spend as much money as it can on ‘any madcap scheme ‘at the expense of people in need.’
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Pursuing any technological bet is regarded as a madcap scheme; again, how times change!
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And he was in the scrub ere they decided to take him at his madcap word, and let his blood be on the chuckle-head of the new-chummiest new chum that ever came out after the rain!
Stingaree
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In this enthusiastic adaptation, readers follow a stylized puppetlike Alice on her adventures, which are illustrated with elaborate mixed-media collages featuring a madcap assortment of books, clocks, and photographs, as well as doors and windows that open.
Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News
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I was absolutely entranced, it was so delightfully madcap.
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After two years' convalescence, madcap funnyman Freddie Starr has risen from his sickbed to appear at the Woodville Halls, in Gravesend, and again the next night at the Fairfield Halls, in Croydon
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Initial reactions suggest they will take to his work more readily than his UK audience, whom he says struggled for a long time to see past the madcap exteriors and into the thought process behind them.
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Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.
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madcap escapades
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For a movie that seems contrived as a backdrop for madcap hilarity, there's precious little hilarity to distract you from the backdrop.
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Later in his flat, I found myself dancing merengue, bhangra, my first ever tango, lots of madcap lindy to an awesome Indian swing track, and finally, the chicken dance.
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Were one asked what aspects of Hamlet does Forbes-Robertson specially embody, I should say, in the first place, his princeliness, his ghostliness, then his cynical and occasionally madcap humour, as where, at the end of the play-scene, he capers behind the throne in a terrible boyish glee.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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Witness the madcap antics of "The 39 Steps," the Hitchcock sendup still raking in laughs off-Broadway, or the caustic sneer of "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's comic slap at deal making in Hollywood.
'Brief Encounter': Mad about its style
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Berlin's story was typical twenties fluff about a dashing Wall Street financier and a madcap aviatrix aboard a luxury liner, made topical by a plot twist involving the 1929 crash.
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Like walking into the fun house at your local fair it's zany, madcap and often tongue in cheek.
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We won't reveal any more of the crazy, madcap story line suffice to say that in the best tradition of musicals they all live happily ever after, with a few surprises.
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Meanwhile, in another flashback subplot that's intercut with Jerry's madcap baby-murder adventure, George has a wacky new job again; this one is judging beauty contests for subteen girls.
Quirky Jerry Seinfeld Guilty in Nanny Murder?
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The sheriff, charmed by her madcap volubility, and seeing by the GI gear packed and waiting by the door that she really was heading overseas to serve her country, allowed her to catch her flight.
A Covert Affair
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Maybe in order to separate myself from his madcap scheme I needed to be cruel to make him cry, to make him angry, to make him see sense and renounce his crazy beliefs, to make him comply with my sense of reality.
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Few writers can match his madcap burlesques, and even fewer can equal his dizzying high-wire prose.
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So is this end of such madcap actions by parents who should know better?
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Stories began circulating about her madcap lifestyle.
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The wild descriptions that follow of his madcap days cavorting around the edges of the world of Oz are the liveliest stretches of the book.
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Villagers are appealing for bygones and curios as they take their plans for a madcap ‘inland regatta’ a step forward.
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I suggest it all sounds terribly grown-up for an outfit known for their madcap antics.
The Sun
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When the crowds arrive next weekend, this room will be exactly what it says in the blurb: madcap.
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A madcap idea introduced at the 11th hour to shake up the grid.
The Sun
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She prefers to skewer her opponents on the end of a rapier wit, whether it's bolshie feminists, exploitive therapists, or madcap utopian dreamers.
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The classic Indian meal is a madcap, group event, with crispy bhajis to nibble before your tandoori arrives, and pillows of basmati rice to leaven the scorching lamb vindaloo when it gets too hot.
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Then he wrote of the doctor and Margaret, whom he described as a dashing, brilliant girl, the veriest tease and madcap in the world, and the exact opposite of Maddy.
Aikenside
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By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
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Her friends have always known her as a madcap but her latest fund raising exploits have left them astounded.
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Was he a highly-charged risk-taker who, away from his family, had chanced all on a madcap, criminal adventure?
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This used to be a joint enterprise with her husband Jonathan: a madcap scheme to create cook books in a house with no mains, electricity or freezer.
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Haig will probably jump at it, even though he knows that he and his renowned counterparts are being set up as "patsies" for Bush's great madcap adventure in Iraq.
YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN...
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We're talking comedy club level laughter for the madcap adventures brought out on film and used to introduce each piece.
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Weak chinned actor Hugh Laurie forms a madcap duo with portly black and white film story Oliver Hardy which would have been just about different enough from the original to be worth pursuing.
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Thus what initially appears to be a madcap scheme begins to have its merits.
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The 60-minute second half is quicker in every way, and not only in the madcap chase through the audience, and the performances bloom and prosper.
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The wild descriptions that follow of his madcap days cavorting around the edges of the world of Oz are the liveliest stretches of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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I read an article that the original script was one in which the two characters spent a madcap weekend traipsing around Europe and end up getting married in the end.
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The locals take to his madcap scheme: they help, they hinder, they call him pilote, meaning flyer.
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He took up the bass as a means of channeling his madcap intensity.
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I did, however, see them tittering, shrieking, guffawing and hooting with laughter at the madcap slapstick that has become the trademark of these two spiky-haired, South Yorkshire clowns.
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The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity: he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all madcap youngsters, he was a universal favorite among the women.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Nor was he madcap, zany, and over-the-top like Robin Williams who in his public persona seems instinctively funny.
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You can hardly move for minstrels, mummers and madcaps: the rolling programme of ye olde entertainment includes music from the Singing Plague Victims and have-a-go heraldry for youngsters.
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When I think of the dangers inherent in such a madcap scheme, my blood runs cold.
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‘We think this is a madcap scheme that will destroy one of Lancaster's best known and loved beauty spots,’ says Kathryn Fahy, one of the picnic organisers.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the zany story of a cartoon bunny's madcap antics as he battles a corrupt legal system that has framed him for a brutal homicide.
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Let all concerned with planning this madcap scheme spend the next six months in a wheelchair!
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He may not squish the opposition but he has hit upon the (almost literally) madcap scheme of wearing a different hat for every race.
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He plays a madcap game show host.
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This poor fellow was the jester, song-singer and epigrammatist of the madcap patriots who were associated under the title of "Sons of Geneva.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
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Is Twelve then going to literally be 12 so we get madcap adventures where everyone thinks his companion du jour is his mum and nobody takes him seriously?
One nice thing about the new Doctor...
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The politicians simply flitted from one madcap scheme to another.
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Although it sounds like a madcap, screwball comedy, this film is a very touching drama about what lengths a young man will go to protect and care for his mother.
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You'll have seen the madcap clowning, close harmony singing, movie pastiches and magic performed by various performers in various guises.
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Notwithstanding the praise of the critics, his King Henry V. is a wooden marionette; the intense life of the traditional madcap Prince has died out of him; but Prince Arthur lives deathlessly, and we still hear his childish treble telling Hubert of his love.
The Man Shakespeare
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Behind the madcap narrative is a deeper purpose.
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“The fiend receive George of Douglas and thee too, thou born madcap and sworn marplot!” said the other; “we shall be discovered, and then death is the word.”
The Abbot
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The red of her coat brought out the natural glow of her skin, and a bandage on her temple made her look madcap and rakish.
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Her friends have always known her as a madcap but her latest fund raising exploits have left them astounded.
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The show will follow the adventures of Shaun and the rest of his flock as they join in with his madcap schemes, including synchronised swimming in the sheep-dip and dressing up as a scarecrow.
IN THE NEWS
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But behind the madcap drama of the ‘camel lady,’ as Davidson became known, are a young woman's complicated emotions about the end of adventure and the arrival of fame.
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She didn't pause to think of Bob's age - just to be with him and join in his madcap schemes was sufficient.
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The anarchic Australian troupe opens its latest madcap show in a blaze - a flaming gyroscope wheel and bicycle, burning drums and pillars of fire.
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Odds fudge -- you have spindleshanks!" cried Madcap Moll irrelevantly.
Terribly Intimate Portraits
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A daredevil charity fundraiser was yesterday recovering from a madcap stunt which left him feeling rather sore.
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Sweden has not had a Queen since the reign of the eccentric madcap Queen Christina in the 1600's.
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He said: ‘On the same night that they voted to close an old people's home, they come up with this madcap scheme.’
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It's set in the music biz and involves all the madcap goings on and decadent behaviour.
The Sun
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It might have been a rather bleak and drizzly evening when the madcap group exploded on stage, fronted by the eccentric Anthony Kiedis.
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Employing Poe's methods of "ratiocination," Scooby and friends embark on a madcap chase through the spooky house!
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I refer to Shopsin's, the ultimate in idiosyncratic cuisine, now located for your madcap pleasure in the Essex Street Market.
Avery Corman: New York Hero Sandwiches: Not Always Heroic
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The result is a zany weekend of madcap musical comedy in classic Rankin / Bass style.
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Madcap banter and witty repartee were the way everyone conversed.
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Katherine Kelly, aka bolshie barmaid Becky Grainger, was certainly flying high after scooping two prizes on the night - Favourite Female for her madcap adventures on the Street and Favourite Couple with on-screen amour
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Was he a highly-charged risk-taker who, away from his family, had chanced all on a madcap, criminal adventure?
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One
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Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet is the locus of Jacquelyn Reingold's modest but spunky comedy String Fever.
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He uses this new-found ability to help a detective solve crimes and bring down a madcap villain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is a madcap and bittersweet tale that is funny and observant enough to allow one to overlook writing that occasionally suffers from stereotypical Spanish machismo.
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One of them is a slight oddball who has lots of madcap ideas, most of which don't quite work.
Times, Sunday Times
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If nothing else, they've proved that there's more to them than madcap song titles and other weird stuff.
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Jason lives in this kind of whirly, madcap world where everything is moving all at once and [Haley] is like this nice, calm center.
Merger of Rudy-Judi, But Best Man Andrew Carries the Big Day
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Here was this motley crew, coming along with a madcap idea, but they could see they were getting something unique.
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Long ago, goes the story, a young Horwich Loco Works apprentice, famed, among other things, for his madcap escapades, rode a bicycle up the steps of Bolton Town Hall and also of the Mechanics' Institute, Horwich.
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Rutland sees an opportunity to clear Christine and play cupid for her and Steve, and embarks on a madcap scheme to bring the two to the altar.
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At a rare soft moment in his life, H. L. Mencken was fetched by a novel penned by a madcap Englishman.
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Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.
