(1) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(2) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(3) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(4) Among other pearls of crackpot bigot wisdom, he has allegedly claimed that "black tenants smell and attract vermin."
(5) Now it's time to get on with living, dreaming up more crackpot themes for his phone-in shows and having fun.
(6) At least then we can finally find out which of our crackpot theories is true.
(7) I wonder this often, when I see them rushing from one crackpot diet to another, from one celebrity "guru" to the next, from one fashion age limit to another.
(8) He described C4 as "the home of crackpot conspiracy theories", but said he would "aspire" to work there and there might be a vacancy as "the presenter is very ancient".
(9) Europe had little money to build with, yet in Germany, an increasingly victorious crackpot was handing over unlimited piles of cash to an unknown architect to make sandcastles with.
(10) Was he, asked the New York Times , "a crackpot or the American Tolstoy"?
(11) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, both dressed as some kind of rat, and jump off a high diving board into a swimming pool, and he had offered me a bonus, out of his own pocket, if I could contrive a scenario – somehow related to the week’s news – that would convince the producers this would be a good idea.
(12) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, dressed as rats, and jump from a high diving board I wondered how Leave could rationalise their blind stab in the dark and live with the untruths they had told.
(13) Passon has a pet theory – "it's so crackpot" – that there might be a genetic basis for the creativity and askance perspective often attributed to gay people throughout history.
(14) Anyone who catches this bug is compelled to visit County Clare in search of proof that real life in this quiet backwater is hilariously similar to the afore-not-mentioned series in all its crackpot, rustic eccentricity.
(15) And indeed it is, if your approach to food is completely crackpot served up with a hefty side of overprivilege.
(16) And we know how we’d rather see it spent: not on bureaucracy or bloat or the latest crackpot government scheme, but on you, your family, your future.” Insisting his tax priority in the next parliament is a further uplift in the personal tax allowance and taking more people out of the top rate of tax by raising the threshold, he will say the choice at the election is clearer than ever.
(17) Most troublingly, his promise to create 20,000 extra school places by enabling parents, charities, religious groups and businesses to set up schools at the drop of hat could well mean that every crackpot fundamentalist group – from extreme Islamists to creationist Christians – will be setting up educational institutions.
(18) Is the rule based on some crackpot theory, such as that English should emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one?
(19) And I’m not going to respond to every single conspiracy theory that these crackpots online cook up.
(20) He accused him of wasting money on crackpot schemes, including a suggestion that the city could use inflatable dirigible balloons to rescue swimmers who got into difficulties.
Nutcase
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet I’m edging towards a hardline approach, as the nutcases of Isis and the American far-right show the end product of free speech and religious tolerance.
(2) Though Ukip did appear to be a one-pony trick; apart from some unreconstructed nutcases, they had little to offer by way of leadership apart from Nigel Farage , an alarmingly candid populist boozer.
(3) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
(4) "Well," she says, "the reaction is fairly split between people who think you're just a mad, attention-seeking nutcase, and the people who come up and say 'go for it'.
(5) But for Jewish people to be so quick to be thin-skinned is not good either, and is in danger of seeming coercive.Baddiel’s throwaway parenthesis on Israel’s being “deemed the nutcase pariah-state du jour”, is frankly disreputable, and gives the impression that he is “playing the antisemitism card” with more in mind than the banal misspeakings of a few footballers.
(6) Phillip Goodall Norwich • David Baddiel suggests that “the left” has become even “more ambiguous” about Jews, because it has deemed Israel the “nutcase pariah state du jour”, thereby implying that it is antisemitic.
(7) A few years ago, and I know this from personal experience, you were scoffed at as a nutcase if you talked at all about this meeting.
(8) Every two-bit nutcase is declared “an existential menace”, a threat to “national security”, a saboteur of our “civilised values and way of life”.
(9) But it points to a key problem as regards the wider apprehension of antisemitism, which is that the left – which, in the end, is where anti-racist ideas start and trickle down even to people like Dave Whelan and Mario Balotelli – has always been a little bit ambiguous about Jews (an ambiguity that has clearly become even more ambiguous since Israel was deemed the nutcase pariah state du jour).
(10) Nicki It used to be that if you said, "anyone and everyone can and should learn this" you sounded like a total nutcase.
(11) Campaign strategies this time around have included an acrostic poem attacking a local Fairfax Regional paper, the Mandurah Mail, for being “Malicious Asshole Nutcases Dickheads” (it goes on, but we won’t).
(12) But there’s a human being on the track – he’s obviously a bit of a nutcase, because who walks on to an F1 circuit, you wouldn’t walk on to a motorway.” He added: “You can’t control that.
(13) Therefore, "the artist should be required to share responsibility along with the nutcase who pulled the trigger".
(14) Phil Spector was a full-on nutcase who was writing songs when he was 15.