lunacy
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In the case of “Nirvanna the Band,” I assume the answer to the second question at some point becomes “no,” but it’s all done with a very persuasive mix of vérité style and can-do lunacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
The company’s commedia dell’arte-style shenanigans have a natural elasticity but farcical lunacy snaps when stretched too far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
But Schaffer, Mand and Gregor are clearly graduates of the ZAZ school of punch-ups, and their ability to circle back toward police lunacy is classic “Naked Gun.”
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
Mercy on us, what do these lunacies portend?
From Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
Vocabulary lists containing lunacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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