lunacy
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An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” brilliantly parodied the lunacy of the nuclear threat during the Cold War.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
By the third song, Sit Down, Stand Up, they're flexing their musical muscles, with an extended outro of percussive lunacy, aided by US session musician Chris Vatalaro.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
Gally’s eyes raged with lunacy; his clothes were torn and filthy.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Everyone knows why, another of the lunacies of the most lunatic sport.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
Michael’s what I think of as a Gwyneth Paltrow Conservative, in honour of the way the Goop founder’s fringe lunacies create ailments specifically so she can cure you of them.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2019
They are laid bare before us: their means, structure, lunacies and worth.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
Mr. O’Brien’s comic persona was always lighter and less intimate; he led a new breed of healthily irreverent comedians who mocked show business and its lunacies from the margins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2010
They laughed so loud and so merrily over their morning tea and these lunacies that the landlady doubted gravely as to their marriage lines.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
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