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
Reminders of such loony moments as Wilder’s “blue blanket” meltdown underscore the actor’s unbridled genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
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
“Okay, now I get it. I’m the crazy one, right? I’m the raving loony bird ” “Folks? Excuse me, but we’ve still got a major problem,” Dr. Gonzalez said.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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
It’s not so much about separating the loonies from the slightly manic.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010
Well, them two loonies scratched along till, one day, Penn's church—he'd belonged to the Moravians—found out where he wuz drifted an' layin', an' wrote to Uncle Salters.
From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard
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
He’s the looniest character — primarily because he’s so out of touch with what’s been happening in the world — and yet he’s also the most endearingly human.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2017
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
