Sentences with phrase «as madman»

Although at first he was dismissed as a madman, almost all his early predictions, disturbingly, have proved conservative in relation to what has actually happened.»

That's partly explained by the fact that it also took all my focus to hold down my very very full - time job as a charity chief executive in addition to spending evenings and weekends as the madman in the attic, beavering away at my book.

At first, they seem to have little in common except their respective encounters with a strange, frightening hermit known to Benji as the Madman of Piney Woods and to Red as the South Woods Lion Man.

It also lets Price begin the film as a delicate gentleman and end it as a madman.

The strangest inclusions are shared between Mel Gibson as a madman named Voz, who is a Star Wars fan, and Sofia Vergara as a dominatrix.

Today we bring you the retro poster artwork for director Matthew Williams «upcoming feature Maniac Famer, a new slasher which is being described as a throwback to classic horror flicks such as Madman, The Mutilator and Slaughterhouse.

In the 1919 «The Dragon Painter,» a short feature directed by his longtime collaborator William Worthington, he stars as a madman painter - savant in rural Japan who believes his lost love was transformed into a dragon by the gods.

He then cites the Parable of the Madman (which I have repeatedly offered to you) & comments: «Nietzsche prophetically envisages himself as a madman: to have lost God means madness; and when mankind will discover that it has lost God, universal madness will break out.

The pacing isn't as tight as it could be, but the plot offers some nifty twists, and there is a humanization of the characters, both on the side of «good» as well as the madmen they try to take down.

Not exact matches

Beatrice Fihn used her speech to describe nuclear weapons as «a madman's gun held permanently to our temple.»

Each immigrant works like a madman to earn his citizenship, and as part of the citizenship requirement creates Xnumber of jobs for Americans.

Financial articles are universally bearish, and bullish articles are ignored as the work of madmen.

Such fevered inanities, which would be dismissed as the ravings of a madman had they issued from the likes of the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, suggest why O'Brien is a poor guide to understanding the millennium now closing, or to assaying the human and democratic prospect beyond the year 2000.»

On the contrary, this passage appears to be designed as a repudiation of identity between Jeremiah and any prophesying madmen, whether occasional ecstatic orators in the temple area or attached personnel.

As townspeople go about their everyday tasks, a madman bursts into the public square announcing to a confused crowd, «God is dead, God remains dead.

Most recently, we have seen this culture of outrage manifest itself in the Republican primaries, as Americans flock to a madman whose primary attraction is reflecting and magnifying their own anger.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry of profitable «Qualitarian Centers» would spring up, where, as one of Percy's characters explained, doctors would respect «the right of an unwanted child not to have to endure a life of suffering»?

Who but a madman or a prophet — or an artist who sees more deeply into things than the rest of us — would have imagined, as Percy did in a 1971 novel, that state governments might recognize a right to die, and that arrangements would be made for the sick and elderly to push a button that would waft them away into a «happy death» in Michigan, a «joyful exitus» in New York, or a «luanalu - hai» in Hawaii?

As a target because some religious madmen have decided to take issue with some otherwise innocuous cartoons I can say only one thing: if you truly want to destroy your nation, let the nutjobs have their way.

Those that do not allow the seed to fall upon the fertile soil of their souls are eager to accuse him of being «a liar» and «a madman» as they would rather lead a purely utilitarian life rather than experience the grace and love that He willingly offers.

If Jesus Christ was both «a liar» and «a madman'then his teachings would have been dismissed by all as he breathed his last on Calvary.

As I stated earlier, if Christ was simply «a madman» and «a liar» then his teachings wouldn't have endured even amongst those who believed in him during his lifetime.

A genuine first - hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.

Barabbas we can understand — a bit unhinged, but we have plannedfor that containable derangement, just as in the kind estrangementof Legion, as he styled himself, by the grave edge of a lakeside shelf.Aside from the price of swine, you see, that madman was dependably — well, mad.

The only time we played proper football was at the beginning of the season where we press high like madmen with Messi as F9... and attacking the teams for full 90 min.

He's being portrayed as some kind of madman and he was the opposite,» former Titans punter Craig Hentrich says of Bironas.

We have madman as manager, guy is totaly deluded, sensitive and lost reality.

Instead, as S.P.A.L. defended like absolute madmen and did everything they needed to do to keep their hopes of staying in Serie A alive, Allegri was absolutely losing his mind on the sideline and nearly stepping onto the field itself as his team Juventus played out a scoreless draw at an absolutely red - hot Stadio Paolo Mazza on Saturday night.

Maybe play him against those teams that will just come to defend as someone who could open up those teams if he can't sprint around like a madman.

Secondly Samir Nasri on the left, as someone mentioned excellent controlled possession of the ball, wonderful, unlike some supposedly best winger in the world right now, who would just push the ball down the byline and run like a madman and then produce a cross which half the time wont bear anything even if crouch was playing.

Also, why do you feel there is a need to constantly remind people of the primary target of a madman who is taught in school textbooks as being the one who wanted to kill all Jews?

Just as you ask in that ultra-dark play, Madmen, who is the madman and who is the specialist, you begin to wonder, in this morbid fever: who is the dead and who is the living!

In their book, they say Mr Miliband was warned that if he did, and Labour won power, he would be in No 10 «with a madman next door» as Chancellor in No 11.

Modern - day cannibalism is fascinating because it is widely seen as an extreme anomaly of human behaviour — either a last - ditch bid to survive or a sick crime perpetrated by a madman.

I sensed the curious stare of the old woman sitting next to me on the airplane as I fumbled with my phone, thumb - tapping like a madman.

Certainly you couldn't have predicted this trait as easily as the standard - issue plot (the usual stuff about smugglers, superspies, and madmen bent on revenge), let alone the checklist of fistfights, spear fights, gunfights, chase scenes, and scenery - wrecking battles.

Freed brings Jack back as the kind of madman mastermind you might find on General Hospital.

There's pageantry galore, arranged marriages (as well as doomed extramarital love stories) and often some sort of madman near the throne or, in the case of Danish director Nikolaj Arcel's «A Royal Affair,» actually occupying it.

John Travolta reuses the crazy madman routine from his character in «Face / Off» (1997) as lead hijacker Ryder.

In theaters October 11, «Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen) for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.»

«In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

As I got a little older, I soon discovered Halloween, Rawhead Rex, Madman, The Beast Within, An American Werewolf in London, From Beyond, Re-Animator, and The Howling.

Here's another short «trailer» for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), entitled My Last Minute, made for the event back in 2006 by the French madman director known as Leos Carax (Les Amants du Pont - Nuef, Pola X, Holy Motors).

The comedy comes from Sandler's performance as the film's title character, a madman with a temper problem who just wants the ball to go in the hole.

Convincing the others to join him for the ride, the team heads to Dubai and other foreign locations as they hunt madman Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) who holds the power to begin a nuclear war.

The rest of Bob's family can't help but be thrown into the mix, as Syndrome, the fanboy - turned - madman, acts out his plans to earn the world's respect and rid it of superheroes.

Developed using the same engine as Just Cause 2 Avalanche Studios» Renegade Ops is a twin stick shooter involving a black ops team specialized in vehicular combat — their goal: stop the terrorist agenda of Madman Inferno.

Dame Judi Dench was kidnapped by a madman who feels no pain, saw her building blown up (twice), and was murdered by a cyberterrorist as M in James Bond.