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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.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
To most of us, the words and actions of geniuses are often indistinguishable from those of madmen.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
That advice, along with digestive enzymes, got me by for more than a decade, until another nutritionist, a madman of sorts, cured it.
—David Rabe, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
The Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid recently argued that Trump’s madman strategy pressured Israel to accept a Gaza cease-fire.
—Roseanne McManus, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
To most of us, the words and actions of geniuses are often indistinguishable from those of madmen.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
That advice, along with digestive enzymes, got me by for more than a decade, until another nutritionist, a madman of sorts, cured it.
—David Rabe, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
The Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid recently argued that Trump’s madman strategy pressured Israel to accept a Gaza cease-fire.
—Roseanne McManus, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Madman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madman. Accessed 13 Mar. 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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