loony
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Here, Lively capably wears each piece of Feig’s loony story as elegantly as she does Emily’s increasingly absurd outfits.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
And I don’t think his successor will match those heights, even if he or she isn’t quite as loony as we’re speculating.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
This tension helps hold together the disparate parts, and “Deepe Darknesse” develops its own loony logic.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
And a seriously long staircase with a loony payoff leading to the Sacré Coeur Basilica at dawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Noah flops happily down next to him, a loony smile on his face.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Everyone thinks they can do it: players, parents, students, boosters, administrators, TV yappers, dogs, cats, radio loonies, and sports columnists at financial newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
He thought that he could corral the loonies that he helped empower; he never considered the possibility that they might wind up coopting him.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2021
Think how many loonies that would fetch now.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2017
In 2006 Mr. Cameron dismissed the party as mostly a bunch of “fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists” but UKIP’s ability to win over his disgruntled supporters is proving an increasing headache.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Wounded Tommies, gassed Arabs, some women and children, and a few lunatics, genuine cock-eyed loonies from the 11 asylum.
From Waiting for Daylight by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
It’s possible it’d be even loonier than what we have now.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
What we knew was already so nuts that it's hard to believe it could be any loonier --- but it is.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
And a delightful closing-credits sequence full of Badu outtakes gives us a glimpse of the looser, loonier comedy we could’ve more fully enjoyed if the film weren’t so committed to its dousing-the-spitfire formula.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2019
Yes, in its loonier moments this movie is exactly that awesome, although I can't decide whether it's setting out to be the "Showgirls" of medieval-fairy tale movies or simply getting there by accident.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2011
Three quick thoughts emerged: it's a bit early in the day for that, he's loonier than a luger, and we'll not see skeleton in the Olympics anytime soon.
From Time Magazine Archive
She added that "one of the looniest proposals on the table is that you can actually cut down forests to turn into furniture" - with companies claiming they store carbon.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
“The looniest guys you’ll talk to in wrestling are really about winning, and all else doesn’t matter.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2016
And in perhaps his looniest promise, he can have Noah living at Yaddo by the end of the week — for as long as he wants!
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2015
The idea of Emmerich, one of Hollywood’s looniest big-budget auteurs, taking on a project this certifiably bananas was somehow thrilling.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2011
“We had to pick the looniest of the bunch, didn’t we?”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
