Sentences with phrase «old crackpot»

So far as they're concerned, he's an old crackpot who's only good for providing the locals with entertainment.

But that has limits, and when some try to paint him as an old crackpot, and get away with it because he won't be goaded, I think a line is crossed.

hey set us loose in something called the Elizabethan Room... A half - hundred old crackpots tiptoeing across the carpet... some woman I don't know is pinning everyone with name tags.

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They set us loose in something called the Elizabethan Room... A half - hundred old crackpots tiptoeing across the carpet... some woman I don't know is pinning everyone with name tags.

Not exact matches

He is an 18 year old know - it - all crackpot who will never ever accept that sis notion that 2 + 2 = 54,309,385,342,045,324 is not only wrong but positively insane.

It used to be thought of as a sort of crackpot, fringe activity that people could do when they were old and retired.

It took four tries before he could get an early version of the mathematical universe hypothesis published, and when the article finally appeared, an older colleague warned that his «crackpot ideas» could damage his reputation.

It's about 24 - year - old Philip Petit's daredevil 1974 wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and it's an elegy to both crackpot heroism and the WTC (although Marsh is smart enough to keep 9/11 out of the mix).

Of course, we can't allow any old idea, however dubious, to upset the applecart, but unfortunately, even good minority views can be labelled dubious, even crackpot, thus delaying desirable progress.