madcap
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There’s a modernist tension between the conventional and the madcap: The likes of Andrew Scott and Lena Dunham have cameos, but the show also is shot in a quasi-documentary, shaky-cam style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
You pine for an ugly deflection, a madcap own goal, one that ricochets in off McGinn's backside or the back of McBurnie's head.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Bree begins the film desperately wanting gender-affirming surgery, so much so that her urgency incites the film’s madcap mumblecore events.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
In their own madcap way, Dino and Jer epitomized Cicero’s notion that comedy is the imitation of life, the mirror of custom and the image of truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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