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Clearly, something is terribly wrong in the Hobbey household, but neither Shardlake nor the reader can puzzle out what evil abides there, even after the half-mad mistress of the house cries out, You fool!

Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England Patrick Anderson 2011

Shot over 12 years, Zhao Liang's brave film follows victims of corruption, some driven half-mad with grief, endlessly seeking redress at Beijing's court of plaintiffs – while also spotlighting the sinister "retrievers", heavies employed to physically dissuade them.

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It is revealed that the Wazoo is incredibly destructive and that the the Tagalong is a deadly competent, intelligent, and powerful though half-mad general/sorcerer.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A Villainous Forum 2009

Clearly, something is terribly wrong in the Hobbey household, but neither Shardlake nor the reader can puzzle out what evil abides there, even after the half-mad mistress of the house cries out, You fool!

Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England Patrick Anderson 2011

The Narraboth, Sean Panikkar, acquitted himself beautifully, driven half-mad when Salome gets him to violate his commands, and singing well; Richard Berkeley-Steele made an ideally fatuous if half-inaudible Herod; and Doris Soffel was full of rage rather than camp as a stentorian Herodias.

Washington National Opera unveils a lively 'Salome' Anne Midgette 2010

Some half-mad bitch of a stepmother puts a contract out on you and later tries to finish the job herself via poison, and a renegade bolt of lightning ultimately kills her?

Top 10 Classic Movies That Got it Wrong » Scene-Stealers 2009

Sometimes I think Wolf Larsen mad, or half-mad at least, what of his strange moods and vagaries.

Chapter 8 2010

Broken and half-mad with bewilderment and grief, Rosy succumbs to a virtual imprisonment, which we are to see as the fate of the unsuspecting English wife.

Not Ugly Betty « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Too often Mr. Szwed gets swamped tallying the onslaught of dizzying ideas and unfinished projects of Lomax in his later years — there is a half-mad quality to these attempts to ma ke sense of such nebulous theories as "cantometrics."

The Catcher of Songs Eddie Dean 2011

They call the Kentucky Derby the most exciting two minutes in sports, but it also contains the most bizarre, fascinating and harrowing millisecond—the moment the steel starting gates pop open and release 20 half-mad, inexperienced thoroughbreds that zoom to 30 miles per hour in just a couple of strides.

The Most Critical Two Seconds in Sports Reed Albergotti 2011