lunatic

Example Sentences

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That is a deliberate choice, says Tracy, because Teddy is not -- or at least not just -- a lunatic.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

The Macfadyen performance is not of a raving lunatic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Act Three, which brings a performance of “Nothing On” to utter collapse, doesn’t quite reach the lunatic heights that Frayn intends.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025

“We have safeguards in our system against lunatic things,” Khachigian said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

Day and night they chipped and hacked, pickaxed and burrowed deeper, uncovering whitened bones by the ton while the deranged clergyman rambled about, frothing like a lunatic.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols