How To Use Unhinged In A Sentence
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Such a sentence was absolutely verboten and I had been unhinged to write it.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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It was the tragedy that must have unhinged him, people said.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Anyone on TV or in a major newspaper gets a lot of nasty mail, some from unhinged cranks.
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The woman also had about 6 or 7 cats - which in my book is always a good sign of someone being unhinged.
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The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
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Meanwhile, a mentally unhinged former lover is stalking her, and the serial killer has struck again.
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Anthony Hopkins goes from sullen silence to wordy sermonising as an unhinged anthropologist in this heavy-handed drama.
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Occasionally some unhinged goon will run alongside showering riders with water or giving them a push up the hill but it is mostly high-spirited encouragement.
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This unnatural act unhinged a stranger sitting next to me who looked on in amazement as he passed the same bus stop he had stood at five minutes previously.
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I have described the member as having become utterly unhinged on the matter of immigration.
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Charles could look to the future with a reasonable optimism that he would secure a modest triumph over his occasionally unhinged enemies.
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His unhinged language suggested that persecution mania briefly deranged him.
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Other nations have confronted terrorism of a more sustained nature without coming thoroughly unhinged.
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Soon you will start to incorporate it into your behaviour, so that when you start to feel angry/irrational/uncomposed you will notice your breathing is unharmonious and direct your attention away from whatever has unhinged you.
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The stress of war temporarily unhinged him.
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The chorus is so desperate and unhinged it should replace its namesake across the country; a frightened alarum to all that there's trouble around and it's far closer than you think.
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In the 1920s British historian Charles Grey savaged the American adventurer as an unhinged embellisher at best, a liar at worst.
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Once you understand that Socialist are a bit unhinged to begin with, and the more they gather and plot...the unhingement becomes more and more manic until arrogance and nonsense is all they have to draw from.
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Completely unhinged by madness, she raised he hand and threw the dagger at Kathryn.
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It preaches a powerful message about losing one's identity when blindly following the leadership of an unknown, unhinged superior.
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York City's push for back to back wins was unhinged by divine intervention.
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Ganjou nipped his hand and then unhinged his jaw in a sick parody of a human smile.
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He came across as slightly unhinged in the studio.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're disoriented and you become unhinged.
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Cheered on by a Washington media rooting section that could only be portrayed by a cackling Heath Ledger brought back from the dead and replicated to fill every seat at Politico, Edwards is now caricatured as a shrill, unhinged she-devil rending her garments in airports and slicing the Achilles tendons of underlings with the vicious alacrity of a demanding hellcat.
Tom Watson: The Cartooning of Elizabeth Edwards
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But she has unhinged me, as you call it: pretended to catechise Hickman, I assure you, for contributing to our supposed correspondence.
Clarissa Harlowe
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An unhinged American general single-handedly launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
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And didn't it give you a warm glow to watch the new, improved Power of Three square up to the unconquered, unrepentant and increasingly unhinged Cole?
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His habits were unhinged; his restless mind roused from its sleep, ambition must now be his companion through life; and if he did not succeed in his present attempt, she foresaw that unhappiness and cureless discontent would follow.
The Last Man
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Glenn Close is an actress with five Academy Award nominations under her belt, one of which is for the role for which I will always remember her: the mentally unhinged mistress in Fatal Attraction.
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But, unhinged yelling about the other candidates scare the "bejesus" out of you is not a sign of a serious candidate.
Matthew Yglesias
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At times it sounds like the ranting and raving of a somewhat unhinged mind, but then it takes a certain amount of guts to let people into your mind, into what seems to be a morass of obsessive paranoia.
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Someone who is this unhinged sounds like the type who might turn on his benefactors.
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As for the exterior styling: I think it just rips—unhinged, subversive, undomesticated, and not at all pretty.
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The artistically talented but intellectually unhinged cartoonist Tommy Tomorrow affirms the judgment: ‘This is brilliant.’
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And his wife may be unhinged, but at least she didn't try to bite him to death.
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The thing is, you have to read the whole platform to see how dangerously unhinged these people really are.
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He doesn't even acknowledge that she might have been upset or unhinged enough to kill herself.
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Everyone becomes slightly unhinged but in quite a nice way.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a tame enough guess; but to Jackson, in his unhinged state, it seemed like the last straw.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Is X going to think I am completely unhinged now?
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As Stella, the 1950's bored wife, inattentive mother and unhinged adulteress at the center of this story, Ms. Richardson initially affects the vacant mien of cinema's classically oppressed women.
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But if, at times, she does appear to be over-the-top, I don't think it's because she's unhinged.
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Inexplicable things happen to irrational people; unhinged persons zigzag across an unmoored world.
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The way he looked, like some unhinged brigand, his haircut a whacked-off Mohawk in the front and long and stringy in the back, his river rat amalgam of off-angled Brooklynese with the occasional flowery Southernism thrown in, the guy was a yat—the tag stemming from the universal greeting “Where y’at?”
The Lampshade
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The terrible experience seemed to have unhinged him slightly.
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Born of the Great Depression, the brothers were unhinged maniacs with no roots, no ties, no responsibilities, fighting back on behalf of the disenfranchised little man.
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Or was he mentally unhinged, as a spokesman for the bank bluntly concluded last week?
Times, Sunday Times
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But I'm afraid that won't have any effect on an unhinged base for whom anti-intellectualism is a virtue.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent
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I have become slightly unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Designed to sound as though a real riot was going on while it was being recorded, this 1967 cover of the Elvis classic is so thrillingly unhinged, you won't even notice the ukulele and accordion.
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It is one of the most commonly collected artefacts, where its market worth is arbitrarily unhinged from its clearly marked original face value, in the philatelist's eye.
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They come across as a little bit unhinged, a little bit posh (or at least upper - middle), but actually quite charming and disarmingly open.
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We pushed through the unhinged door, grinning in breathless exhilaration.
THE MANANA MAN
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Perhaps the blame for our fascination with the violent acts of unhinged minds should be laid to rest at the creaking door of the Bates motel.
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Sally heard a sharp clack as the dragon's jaws unhinged, and a blast of foul breath washed over them.
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It is not many unprepared minds will remain unhinged under the load.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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And for somebody to be as unhinged as she seems to be, Jane, we have to look at the history, because what we ` re doing is we ` re creating what ` s called a genogram.
CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2009
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Unless he is unhinged, no politician in a modern democracy reveals any indiscreet biases in public.
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The war is everywhere and real, our terrors threatening to perfect us, the technologies of our desire extending into networks too complex for anything but unhinged and macaronic fiction even to hint at.
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Her descent into madness - from the efficient and beautiful, puffy-cheeked housewife, to the distraught and unhinged, hollow-eyed fragment of her former self - is one cinema's most overlooked performances.
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I could be over-reacting about this, but if I'm being completely honest with you, the possibilities of what could've happened today have unhinged me a little.
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Its only purpose can be to do one of three things: self - "vindicate" bad loser revenge, sell products, such as advertising on Fox News, books, speaking tours etc. and/or troll for the unhinged on a "fishing expedition" for tomorrow's assassins.
Frank Schaeffer: Dr. Tiller, Murder, Domestic Terrorism and the Republican Right
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When a dish as good as this one comes along, I become slightly unhinged with excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terrible experience seemed to have unhinged him slightly.
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I have become slightly unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she often sounded underpowered and got herself horribly unhinged from the orchestra in her big Act IV aria.
Times, Sunday Times
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The album is bookended on the other side by two versions of Slagger, a twisted groove topped by an unhinged rap.
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Everyone becomes slightly unhinged but in quite a nice way.
Times, Sunday Times
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The war was the result of the immediate, emotional reaction of one unhinged man who had in his grasp several viable options to choose from.
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But, once he stopped taking his medication, he didn't simply become unhinged or retreat into suicidal illness.
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The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
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The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
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We counted him going back and forth 200 times before we realised that we were the ones who were mentally unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looks kind of crazy, a bit unhinged.
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Needless to say, the whole event with Debbie left me unhinged for a while.
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In a strange turn of events, you find yourself not as into Leo's usual tics: his unhinged vocals and spasmodic guitar.
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929, he escaped the clutches of a military father and an unhinged alcoholic mother to try his luck first at acting, then puppeteering.
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Radically unfit to raise her daughter, or even cross the street, Yuen comes unhinged and retreats into a fantasy world.
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There does not seem to be a motive or a reason why, other than like I say, that this person was totally unhinged.
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president and occasionally on themselves, Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
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Ever since Palin's effluvious post-convention "bounce" evaporated, their behavior has been cowardly, unhinged, and deeply un-American.
Flutter by
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Here, he swaps the comforts of delicate Feldman inflections for darker textures or veers into confrontational exchanges pocked with unhinged ellipses and omissions - enough to tweak the typically unflappable Rowe.
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He came across as slightly unhinged in the studio.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a dish as good as this one comes along, I become slightly unhinged with excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The experience seems to have unhinged him, since he bursts into the Hydrogen Cave ranting about a mysterious Referee X who is frustrating his attempts at publication.
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He is still living in the palace, but his misfortunes have so unhinged him that he imprecates the most unholy curses on his sons, praying that they may have to draw the sword before they share this house between them.
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We instead reared up on our hind legs like a wounded animal and began thrashing about, enraged and unhinged, stoking bloodlust and fear.
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Batman's always had an unhinged side, however, so it's entirely in character that the caped crusader flaps on with a 55-date tour of UK and Irish arenas.
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Born of the Great Depression, the brothers were unhinged maniacs with no roots, no ties, no responsibilities, fighting back on behalf of the disenfranchised little man.
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Unless he is unhinged, no politician in a modern democracy reveals any indiscreet biases in public.
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My mother was unhinged about potential optic damage.
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Simply put, she does not embody the character; she is too healthy-looking and not sufficiently unhinged to make you really believe her.
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An intern at a psychiatric hospital forms a close bond with a mentally unhinged but highly intelligent young criminal.
The Sun
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The shock unhinged his mind.
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Cricketers spend so much time hanging around, it must be difficult not to become mentally unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Gulliver returns to the land of men, it clearly emerges that he is seriously unhinged and a thoroughly changed character.
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Get your unhinged rants right you murderous bed-wetting coward.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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Oh, I don't know - I tell people (a few select people) about my dreams, mainly trustworthy friends who won't then look at me as if I'm unhinged.
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By pulling it, he'd not only cracked the plank in half, he'd unhinged the door itself.
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The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
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Eventually, being Orwell's widow unhinged her.
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Not all the opponents are unhinged, of course.
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An intern at a psychiatric hospital forms a close bond with a mentally unhinged but highly intelligent young criminal.
The Sun
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No matter how truthful the representation, it is hard to imagine that the murderer was as totally unhinged as he is portrayed.
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She parties with friends, and she takes driving lessons with a slightly unhinged instructor.
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His unhinged language suggested that persecution mania briefly deranged him.
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With masterful technique and an unhinged mad scene, she commanded the first act.
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Their minds are unhinged by their great guilt.
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Relentless guitar riffs, cries of vintage keys, theremin psychedelia, eager handclaps, fleeting horns and funky breakdowns build a wall of serious rock action fit for singer Cato Thomassen's unhinged vocals.
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It is not many unprepared minds will remain unhinged under the load.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea
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The metal doors were bound with lock and chain but they were also partially unhinged from the wall.
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We counted him going back and forth 200 times before we realised that we were the ones who were mentally unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or was he mentally unhinged, as a spokesman for the bank bluntly concluded last week?
Times, Sunday Times
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Cricketers spend so much time hanging around, it must be difficult not to become mentally unhinged.
Times, Sunday Times
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And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones.
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Henry Sidgwick, I am not sure if you, like Maoz, can be described as harbouring "unhinged animosity" towards Israel.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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He turned his science prof into an unhinged dictator in a satire that was later to be championed as a masterpiece by the absurdists.