While it is hardly surprising that a writer reuses some of his own inventions now and then, it is noteworthy that the themes of Carroll's poems (" Jabberwocky ", " The Mouse's Tale ", " The Pig-Tale ", " The Mad Gardener's Song ") run through all of his major works like, to borrow Gardner's expression, " demented fugues ".

He then played a demented submarine commander in Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant, and followed this with his best-remembered film role of that year as Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross.

For example, in a 1972 interview, he condemned it as " a complex of movements ; more than this, a demented sect and a party ", and avowed: " I found out then [...] what it means to be carried by the wave without the faintest trace of conviction.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Mototsune confronted the emperor, explaining that his demented behavior made him incapable of reigning, and that he was being dethroned.

At Elsinore, further demented by grief at her father Polonius's death, Ophelia wanders the castle, acting erratically and singing bawdy songs.

" Even the lyrics, while occasionally demented, were usually too inchoate to be anything but curiously passionate love songs.

Chris Hollow, writing for the Sunday Age ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 2003, said, " The music on ' Forever Changes ' is powerful, exotic, surreal, occasionally demented and suffused with the unmistakable and heady scent of 1967 California.

This results in the souls of the dead, most demented after countless aeons of ' imprisonment ' being able to return to our universe and to possess human bodies, if the owning soul gives permission-which they invariably do after sufficient torture.

Tracking the image of the demented or deviant clown across popular culture, Dery analyzes the " Pogo the Clown " persona of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy ; the obscene clowns of the neo-situationist Cacophony Society ; the Joker ( of " Batman " Fame ); the grotesque art of R. K. Sloane ; the sick-funny Bobcat Goldthwaite comedy Shakes the Clown ; and Stephen King's It.

It may seem to be a bizarre occupation for a group of highly qualified men of science, indeed, as Haddon states: " I can imagine that some people would think we were demented – or at least wasting our time.

Grampa is an old, grizzled, periodically incontinent and quite senile man, who lives in the Springfield Retirement Castle, a sad, lonely place filled with demented, crippled and depressed old people.

" Instances such as these match popular stereotypes that all old people are ' demented ' and in poor health ," they wrote.

Eddie, a cheerfully violent drunkard, meanwhile spends his time getting drunk and wasting the dole money and secretly steals Richie's family heirloom, although he occasionally has moments of demented genius.

Although Janet Maslin of The New York Times admitted the film's plot was " demented ", she wrote that the film " has done a great deal to ensure the series ' longevity.

Lander created the starring role of the demented fast food franchise clown Bruce Burger in the cult film Funland directed by Michael A. Simpson.

The lone hold-outs are Dick and Joanna, who keep their property thanks largely to Dick's refusal to play along with what he views as the latest demented whim of the townspeople.

* Pelotillehue's Mental Asylum: The town's madhouse, full of demented people in wacky outfits or a few mad inventors.

In other words, a mentally disabled or demented person who is operating at their own baseline level of mental ability would be expected to appear delirious without a baseline mental functional status against which to compare.

In other words, a mentally disabled or demented person who is operating at their own baseline level of mental ability might appear to be delirious without a baseline functional status against which to compare.

" Positively demented ," said one, " I consider it a hopeless case.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

Jones then recoiled his rope and threw again, this time hitting her on the back but failing to encircle her.

Starr Jones gets up every morning at five o'clock, milks his family cow, attends to farm chores, and then takes a two-hour train trip to New York.

If, say, the Russians intended to stop Tom Jones' going to the pub, then Tom Jones would fight the Commies.

Jones first concentrated on the Italian Baroque, a style then out of favor and relatively inexpensive in the years immediately following the war.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

From then on, most Republican candidates for local and statewide offices sought the endorsement of Bob Jones III and greeted faculty / staff voters at the University Dining Common.

Jones then hired former University of Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer to replace Johnson.

Jones then lured Bill Parcells out of retirement to coach the Cowboys.

Jones observed that " It is perhaps Diocletian's greatest achievement that he reigned twenty-one years and then abdicated voluntarily, and spent the remaining years of his life in peaceful retirement.

Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems ( then the television division of Columbia Pictures ).

Bell Records, then having a string of hits with The Partridge Family, signed Jones to a somewhat inflexible solo record contract in 1971.

Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.

Much speculation centered on Jimmy Johnson, then the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who was rumored to be feuding with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Jones next served as director, Expeditionary Warfare Division ( N85 ), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the deputy chief of staff for plans, policies, and operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.

As for the contradiction between German rearmament and his message of peace, Ribbentrop argued to whoever would listen that the German people had been “ humiliated ” by the Versailles treaty, that Germany wanted peace above all, and German violations of Versailles were part of an effort to restore Germany's " self-respect " By the 1930s, much of British opinion had been convinced that the treaty was monstrously unfair and unjust to Germany, so as a result, many in Britain like Thomas Jones were very open to Ribbentrop ’ s message that if only Versailles could be done away with, then European peace would be secured.

Grammer then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.

Jones and Bonham then added to the material, in rehearsal or in the studio, as a song was developed.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

The British Army test the joke on Salisbury Plain against a rifleman ( Terry Jones ), then translate it into German.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.