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a celebrity being stalked by a madman
as far as I'm concerned, anyone who likes skydiving is a madman
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Something long and meandering like this: For the next four years, the United States will be an unpredictable, unsteady global superpower run by a fascist oligarchy, in which the people’s representatives cater to a madman’s whim.
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Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
The madman uses a special type of radioactive clay to control his victims' actions.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
One of his more mischievously juicy performances is in Extreme Measures, a godawful 1996 medical thriller starring Hugh Grant as an idealistic young doctor who discovers (much more slowly than the audience does) that Hackman is an evil madman.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
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Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
There’s also Anthony Perkins as a madman in a preacher’s robe who is obsessed with China Blue.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
The madman uses a special type of radioactive clay to control his victims' actions.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
One of his more mischievously juicy performances is in Extreme Measures, a godawful 1996 medical thriller starring Hugh Grant as an idealistic young doctor who discovers (much more slowly than the audience does) that Hackman is an evil madman.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madman. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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madman
noun
mad·man
ˈmad-ˌman 
-mən
: a man who is or who acts as if mentally unsound
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