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Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for.
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Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Who but a madman would become obsessed with the stuff?
—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
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Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Who but a madman would become obsessed with the stuff?
—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
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“Madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madman. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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