How To Use Madman In A Sentence

Then, turning to the temple, he called solemnly and sternly to the madman, 'Thy hour is come! repent, confess, and save thy soul!' Antonina
The laughter wasn't very loud, it sounded normal, unlike the laughter of a madman, or a drunken pirate.
He has often been characterised as a madman or Satanic genius.
She came home demanding to know why we hadn't got an inch closer to catching this madman. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
There is no shame in disagreeing with a madman and his folly … .. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 28, 2006

But he's the nasty solution to a worse problem that requires a deicidal madman. The Cultural Gutter
He drove like a madman, passing in the craziest places.
Roffis was courageous, and decided to take a chance with the eccentric designer, already known as the madman.
An attempt is made to analyze the cases of irony occurring in a Chinese literary work-Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary within the framework of the echoic interpretation theory.
Terray set his teeth, and glissaded down like a madman. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
And now the northerlies rising fierce, equatorial, the madman's wind, the mistrals of prophecy, guiding me into the bay. The Reign of Istar
During his junior year at Harvard, in 2001, Ross Douthat was taking a final exam with 200 fellow students when a madman burst into the room.
No madman had ever restored one of the greatest races in the world to the position of one of the foremost nations in the world as it was at the present time.
Antipholus appeals to the Duke for justice against his wife, who he claims has locked him out of his house and conspired to have him falsely imprisoned as a madman.
The madman mutilates art work
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
He said of realising he had won: 'I must have looked like a madman. The Sun
Waiting at the end of the runway, eyes staring like a madman, he let his concentration build.
He looked like a madman, foaming at the mouth.
Ivan IV. raved like a madman at what he called the insolence of his subjects, in complaining of their governor. The Empire of Russia
In the darkness, a lunatic warbled nonsense and a hungry madman babbled on about food.
Meanwhile, a countdown to the end of the universe has begun, a suicidal madman engraves a mandala on the floor of an emptied swimming pool, a sleep-deprived astronomer cruises the dunes in a white Packard saloon, a raven-haired temptress named Coma plays the men off against each other. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
The whole thing with Mark Benford fighting like a madman with the terrorists in the FBI building was amazing – esp with Asst. Director Witteck in the washroom with his shotgun – (whereas in his original flash forward he was just in the washroom taking a dump). FlashForward Series Ends with a FlashForward « Show Me SciFi
She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilization to a featureless monotony. Greenmantle
I started walking as quickly as possible away from the madman but he was coming after me faster than I was walking away.
The woman started up the engine and drove like a madman… pardon me… I meant madwoman to the marionettes hotel.
Just nosedive in it like a madman because I love to act and the money is real good. The Sun
I assume the extremes of the different genres represented here can be reflected in what goes on in the mind of the madman in the film.
Although often screaming at the readers through his various masks (such as the rebel, the Antichrist, the misogynist, the madman), he also spoke softly.
Mystery White Boy, on the other hand, captures the essence of Buckley's wild spirit - the singer balanced on the fine line between genius and madman.
He was not a common madman who thought he was God and established a cult dedicated to the veneration of himself.
He and his passengers were nearly wiped out a couple of times by the driver he referred to as a madman.
He was also in his time dismissed as a crank and a madman.
In fact, just yesterday, I borrowed my son's ipod while I was cutting firewood, and cranked "Stranglehold" up to the max, and I was limbing and bucking beetle-killed lodegpole like the Motor City Madman himself. On The Nuge Feud
The Met’s trustees were afraid it would provoke public outrage and Bryson Burroughs, its director, thought Picasso a madman.
Until then, I'm just going to push myself like a madman to finish the first draft of this new piece before I leave to go home next Thursday.
Blackbird, my dark brother dressed in ebon from head to toe, played like a madman. Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber
I fled in horror, leapt into my car and drove like a madman. The Sun
Although that might be a blessing in disguise - chances are you'll be cream-crackered after jumping about like a madman for a few minutes. Pocket-lint
I must have looked like a madman. Times, Sunday Times
The scientific controversy is beyond me, but I can recognize the fixed stare, the strained voice-throb and the rigid jaw of a madman at a hundred paces.
And if the madman is the one trying in his own twisted way to save the world from itself? Getting Graphic: "Watchmen" by Alan Moore
But the fact that so many still appear to have trouble with woman-hatred -- trying to wish it away, reduce its significance, confine its existence to a "lone madman," blame it on a nonexistent Muslim bringing-up, or even, on the fringes, excuse it, tells me that we have much, much further to go. Archive 2009-12-01
For the truth of the history is, that Master Elisabat, of whom the madman spoke, was very prudent, and a man of a sound judgment, and served the queen as her tutor and physician; but to think that she was his leman is a madness worthy the severest punishment; and to the end thou mayst see that Cardenio knew not what he said, thou must understand that when he spoke it he then was wholly beside himself. The Third Book. XI. Which Treats of the Strange Adventures That Happened to the Knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the Penance He Did There, in Imitation of Beltenebros
He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman". A TIME OF WAR
That he was loathsome, a complete fruitcake, and madman is well known.
It was like engaging with the texts of a madman in a mental institution.
Three days later, Gawain and I answered the door to a newly lip-pierced individual who was grinning like a madman.
The one character left with any topical resonance is Teddy: a madman who believes he is president of the United States and orders troops into action against an invented enemy.
The real revelation about the movie, however, is that no matter how good a job Ralph Fiennes does at playing a creepy old madman - which he does quite well, transforming his entire body into a fearful half-hunch as he murmurs in glottal half-phrases – he is still too goddamn good-looking for some parts. Brief Reviews Of Recent Movies I Have Seen
Said, aleft the goad addressing to the foe that awes the flocks — "Come, a service; haste, my brave one; let a fury the madman arm, Poems and Fragments
The sad tale of a madman's decent to the depths of despair hardly provided the most upbeat ending to the festival but created a stir in the audience.
The keeper of the fandak, kind man, made uneasy by this demonstration, signed to me quietly to stretch out my hand, with palm open, and directed to the spot where the madman stood, for only in that way could I hope to avert the evil eye. Morocco
Some would call you crazy to do what you did, fighting like a madman.
He was kicking and punching, his arms and legs flailing like a madman. The Sun
The killing was the act of a madman.
The madman from the middle east, the man who blew up airlines over Scottland is now the US best buddy. Think Progress » Breaking: Speaker Hastert Under Investigation By the FBI Over Abramoff Ties
A madman mutilated the painting by cutting holes in it.
He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman". A TIME OF WAR
a courtezan might be her idol, and a madman her priest. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
Its strange how so many little problems can render me a mumbling, incoherent madman.
After the death scene is cleaned up the final conclusion of police investigators is simply that George Wilson had been a madman.
Yet here you are, spouting and fuming as wildly as any madman from the desert about what shall happen to you when you are dead. Chapter 17
That would be like some madman trying to build an atom bomb in his own garage. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Can you imagine being chased across a lake of petrol by a grinning madman with a cigarette lighter?
He was also in his time dismissed as a crank and a madman.
He made the sizeable audience laugh with his wit and the rise and fall of his tone which he used to liven up the character Adam Avatar - a madman who is close to 50 and believes that he will die at the hands of his nemesis.
The "simplicity of the ascetic" is usurped by "the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilisation". Archive 2005-08-01
Jack the Ripper was probably a madman
This dreadful murder is surely the act of a madman.
The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her.
And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews; for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman. Leviathan
Once I was aptly crunk I started singing and dancing like a madman.
I walked around the glacier in circles, like a madman. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the juniors and seniors in the class were snoozing lightly, as always, and others were staring at the teacher as if he was a madman.
A man who has no 'monde' is inflamed with anger, or annihilated with shame, at every disagreeable incident: the one makes him act and talk like a madman, the other makes him look like a fool. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
The problem with the madman gambit is that you pretty much have to be a madman to do it. Matthew Yglesias » The Madman Strategy
He wanted to jump up and run outside, screaming like a madman.
Quoth she, Thou madman’ what made thee eat of cumin ragout and forget to wash thy hand? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The writers took it as the ravings of a madman.
A madman would be more likely to hammer than to "scrabble" on the great double-leaved gate. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms
And as the Romans in this held the same opinion with the Greeks, so also did the Jews, for they called madmen prophets, or, according as they thought the spirits good or bad, demoniacs; and some of them called both prophets and demoniacs madmen; and some called the same man both demoniac and madman. Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
After the madman leaves, Sancho tries to blame the goatherd for what happened, saying he should have warned them of the man's violent temper (even though the goatherd had warned them).
What do you expect if you spend your life running like a madman from side to side? Times, Sunday Times
Like its predecessors, Killing Time opens with a hard-boiled New York-based psychologist hunting down a madman.
As Donnan looked at the gibbering madman in the crystal ball, his anger drained away.
After seeing the movie, and discovering that the tournament was moving to Brooklyn, I started practicing like a madman, downloading hundreds of old puzzles and buying up a bunch of books.
As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman.
I can't help it: where some see visionary lines and inspired angles I see the geometry of a madman.
For he is neither a madman nor a fool. Times, Sunday Times
An attempt is made to analyze the cases of irony occurring in a Chinese literary work-Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary within the framework of the echoic interpretation theory.
That's such a grand chain of illogic that it would make a madman blush.
Around this time somebody claims to have heard him shriek out, " like a madman '. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
A drunken madman is harder to believe than reasoned, lucid one. The Tail Section » Theory Time - Rite Aid Confirms Christian Shephard Alive
In popular predecessors like "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa," Winchester chose subjects that lent themselves to coherent, if multistranded, narratives. The Seattle Times
Justine; but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman, and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me. Chapter 7
Face the Truth, the third solo release from Stephen Malkmus, is ‘The Hero and the Madman’ of the former Pavement frontman's catalog.
The only difference between me and a madman is the fact that I am not mad 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
In Madman, he gambols and guffaws and plays shamelessly to the rafters -- and that's just during the curtain calls. Michael Giltz: Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921
Does anyone know what this madman is jibbering about? Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
The father is a Gnostic madman, a collector and domestic demi-god, confecting a private universe incommunicable to all but himself (like so many fathers!)
The man gabbled and gestured and spun like a madman. Colin Powell's UN Clown Show
Whether it changed an otherwise sensible (well, half-sensible) man into a madman, or whether it just brought out the real madman that was hidden there all along, who knows?
Well, that didn't sound at all like the ravings of a madman.
A bowlegged, wild-eyed madman with a gun kept pacing around them, threatening all kinds of unpleasantries, and when Blair raised his eyes, he spotted James Ellison lurking on the upper level of the loft.
Either way, the audience slowly becomes aware that it is in the presence of a madman.
Rather than return to jail after a weekend outside, Markov became a homeless man, cultivating the look of a madman in order to get more money as a beggar.
The madman gambit is the bumbling nation-state version of “I meant to do that!” Matthew Yglesias » The Madman Strategy
Dose's continuous incoherent diatribe evokes in turn the babble of a madman, the discourse of a preacher or the conversation of a child.
Helm's stage persona has been described as a "bellowing madman", a phrase he reluctantly accepts. BBC News - Home
Band members were flailing around like puppets under the control of a madman.
Gregor the Slightly just about managed to avoid rubbing his hands in glee as he saw the sword the adventurer had chosen, and even managed to keep from grinning like a madman for more than a couple of seconds. Squired-Up
She sees me ride around a rather flat and unimpeded corner, then suddenly brake like a madman, roll off the bike, and lie on my back waving my arms in the air.
Putin has your head spinning, the people of Iran are begging for us to help them while the madman is making a nuclear bomb, Israel is being throw to the wolves, terrorist are laughing at you, and China owns you. Obamas catch 'Avatar'
Herzog gradually becomes the very fictional character his movie is about, an obsessed madman determined to drag a riverboat over a mountain. - RK
In his black, boatlike cockaded hat, his hawkish face fierce and unyielding in the streaming storm, Jones must have seemed like a madman compared with the diffident or easygoing merchant captains most sailors were accustomed to. John Paul Jones
The film once more revisits the gruesome case of Manson, the madman who led a commune of young people into a series of horrific murders.
The idea of Hitler as madman is a subtext throughout much that has been written about him, and particularly when it comes to the war.48 Bolshevik propaganda, antifascism, and barely disguised sympathies have precluded the same treatment of Stalin. Deathride
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He's a psychotic madman, unlike any that has been seen on film before.
We're basically chasing a madman who wants to control time.
A madman with dusty matted hair stood in dirty brown shorts inspecting his navel. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Whatever the reason, she had been quickly seized by an unquenchable curiosity concerning this madman. THE HELLBOUND HEART
He wanted to jump up and run outside, screaming like a madman. A Time of War
The madman torched the barns
The whole thing with Mark Benford fighting like a madman with the terrorists in the FBI building was amazing – esp with Asst. Director Witteck in the washroom with his shotgun – (whereas in his original flash forward he was just in the washroom taking a dump). FlashForward Series Ends with a FlashForward « Show Me SciFi
Though his injuries were always an obstacle in his training, as soon as Dekkers was well, he was back in the gym, working like a madman on the heavy bag, doing the repetitions necessary to develop his power.
For the kind of egoist I mean is a madman in a much more plausible sense than the mere harmless "deficient"; and to hand on the horrors of his anarchic and insatiable temperament is a much graver responsibility than to leave a mere inheritance of childishness. Eugenics and Other Evils
But "The Diary of a Madman" is an ambiguous tragicomedy without a bottom line. Too Much of a Good Thing
Who was the madman that spawned this code of deportment?
Stunned local detectives are under intense pressure to solve the crime, and they quickly decide they are looking for a lone madman. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, knighthood is absurd: and chivalry an idiotic superstition: and Sir Walter Manny was a zany: and Nelson, with his flaming stars and cordons, splendent upon a day of battle, was a madman: and Roundabout Papers
Oakum, without any farther hesitation, ordered the fellow to be unfettered; at the same time, threatening to make Morgan exchange situations with him for his spite; but the Briton no sooner heard the decision in favour of the madman, than he got up to the mizen-shrouds, crying to Thompson and me to get out of his reach, for we should see him play the devil with a vengeance. The Adventures of Roderick Random
McCoy smiled soothingly, but the captain glared about him like a madman, fetched his sextant, and took a chronometer sight. THE SEED OF McCOY
Everyone thought he went crazy, thought he was a madman.
The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius.
A man walks this land, a madman who holds no regard for human life.
He screeches around a corner, twisting the wheel like a madman.
Carax' movie, about a sewer-dwelling madman, starts with a sort of anarch energy but rapidly becomes tiresome, smug, and vapid. Kenneth Hite's Journal
_you look like a madman, you talk like a madman_: _Is your madness real, or have you any secret design in it_? Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
I should be glad to know whether you deem every man that is transported with anger, without an adequate cause, to be a madman?
That's perfect for me because I can walk at a good pace and he can drive like a madman.
The madman was violent and had to be locked up.
Because," announced Tristran," every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel. STARDUST

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