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as far as I'm concerned, anyone who likes skydiving is a madman
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Who but a madman would become obsessed with the stuff?
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Yet Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist whom Perón chose to head his nascent nuclear program, turned out to be part con man and part madman.
—Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2012
In the gray daylight of the first days of Syria’s freedom, its citizens appear so far to be behaving not like unrestrained madmen but like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty, delivered even by an erstwhile jihadist.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
This is clearly the work of the magnificent madman who made two Step Up movies.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Yet Ronald Richter, the Austrian physicist whom Perón chose to head his nascent nuclear program, turned out to be part con man and part madman.
—Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2012
In the gray daylight of the first days of Syria’s freedom, its citizens appear so far to be behaving not like unrestrained madmen but like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty, delivered even by an erstwhile jihadist.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
This is clearly the work of the magnificent madman who made two Step Up movies.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madman. Accessed 2 Jan. 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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