Some modern scholars, like Shashibhusan Das Gupta have suggested that it may be derived either from Sanskrit word vatula, which means " enlightened, lashed by the wind to the point of losing one's sanity, god's madcap, detached from the world, and seeker of truth ", or from vyakula, which means " restless, agitated " and both of these derivations are consistent with the modern sense of the word, which denotes the inspired people with an ecstatic eagerness for a spiritual life, where a person can realise his union with the eternal beloved-the Maner Manush ( the man of the heart ).

During a madcap tea party, Donna Lucia presses Charley for information about his / her life in Brazil.

Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis.

In chronological vignettes, the narrator-also named Patrick-recalls his adventures growing up under the wing of his madcap aunt, Mame Dennis.

Those on the St. Augustine's staff included Father Frank Hargis ( Frank Bonner ), the affable headmaster ; Coach Duane Johnson ( Dennis Haysbert ), Graham's earnest young assistant during the first two seasons ; and in the third season, featured teachers Father Bud ( Lou Richards ) and elderly, madcap Sister Ethel ( Maxine Elliott ).

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.

Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from a mental institution, the character is a combination of La stradas Gelsomina, Pinocchio, and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo.

Wadsworth comes to the conclusion that he knows who the murderer is, and runs through a frantic, madcap re-enactment of the entire evening with the guests in tow.

The word drongo is used in Australia as a mild form of insult tantamount to the term " idiot ", which may refer to the seemingly madcap attacks these birds are prone to launch.

So all followers of different religions and religious practices came under the nomenclature Baul, which has its etymological origin in the Sanskrit words " Vatula " ( madcap ), or " Vyakula " ( restless ) and used for someone who is " possessed " or " crazy ".

This counterpart does not reside in Qward, but is another inhabitant of the 5th Dimension ; he loaths being compared to Mxyzptlk, who he refers to as a ' madcap imp '.

Some scholars maintain that it is not clear when the word took its sectarian significance, as opposed to being a synonym for the word madcap, agitated.

The early part of the film is madcap comedy.

He soon becomes embroiled in the intrigue, danger, politics, and madcap antics of the 16th-century French Court and quickly realizes that something in the fertile flower of France is rotten.

He wrote " One is surprised at the inclusion of Arjun Rampal in a madcap entertainer, albeit in a small but significant role.

Tom is brought back for a " madcap Manhattan weekend " where he falls head-over-heels for Kitty Haynes ( Karen Akers ), a chanteuse at the Copacabana.

The film, in essence, is part Ealing comedy, part underdog farce with a sequence of madcap adventures set against a striking soundtrack by contemporary Britpop artists.

They are a wild, frolicsome, madcap set of fellows when undisturbed, uneasy and ever on the move, and appear to take especial delight in chattering away the time, and visiting from hole to hole to gossip and talk over each other's affairs — at least so their actions would indicate.

But the kidnapped girls fight back in a madcap climactic brawl when the Fourth Form comes to the rescue, burning down the new school.

From the 1970s to the 90s, more nonsensical styles of comedy began to emerge, led by the madcap stylings of Robin Williams, the odd observations of Jerry Seinfeld and Ellen DeGeneres, and the ironic musings of Steven Wright.

" Its trademark overture, which Newmarch says " lifts us off our feet with its madcap vivacity ", was composed in a piano version before Smetana received the draft libretto.

Initially a joke designed to fill up blank space in the magazine, the weekly strip, detailing the mishaps and madcap ideas and inventions of a terminally idle office boy working at the Spirou offices, took off and became one of Franquin's best-known creations.

She turned out to possess an aptitude for comedy, with a flair for combining the elegant and the madcap, a quality she displayed in such films as The Awful Truth ( 1937 ) and My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), both co-starring Cary Grant.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

To differentiate himself, he created the personality of " Tennessee Ernie ," a wild, madcap exaggerated hillbilly.

", where the attraction was re-themed as a madcap Las Vegas-style nightclub show in the middle of the jungle.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's second series of Extras featured a reference to a fictional episode of The South Bank Show focused on madcap children's television presenters Dick and Dom.

The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London.

" Whether or not this was a true story or an Ace gag, it was understatedly madcap enough that it could have been true.

A madcap, " anything for a laugh " atmosphere pervades the strip, which also abounds in nonsensical dialogue, non sequiturs and pervasive, almost nonstop puns.

It features super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

He taught himself to read by looking at copies of The Strand Magazine but his writing betrayed his poor education all his life, with highly eccentric spelling and grammar.

Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.

Other enduring features have been " Goings on About Town ", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and " The Talk of the Town ", a miscellany of brief pieces — frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York — written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary.

Escorting her through the forest towards the final brook-crossing, the Knight recites a long poem of his own composition, and repeatedly falls off his horse — his clumsiness is a reference to the " eccentric " L-shaped movements of chess knights, and may also be interpreted as a self-deprecating joke about Lewis Carroll's own physical awkwardness and stammering in real life.

They shared many of the same perceived characteristics such as eccentric behavior, living as hermits, and the ability to create life.

Hardy was extremely shy as a child, and was socially awkward, cold and eccentric throughout his life.

The book is a work of fiction inspired by the author's eccentric aunt, Marion Tanner, whose life and outlook in many ways mirrored those of Mame.

" The Film captures the life and the sound of an overlooked and eccentric musical mastermind who has been compared to Beethoven, Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix.

The original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver ( Mel Gibson ) who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiracies, and the U. S. Justice Department attorney ( Julia Roberts ) who becomes involved in his life.

Centred on the life of eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket ( who insists that her surname is pronounced Bouquet ), the sitcom portrays a social hierarchy-ruled British society.

" Allan Bloom has referred to the novel as being " hardly literature ," one having a " sub-Nietzschean assertiveness excites somewhat eccentric youngsters to a new way of life.

To the end of his life Cumming retained an infectious, if sometimes eccentric, enthusiasm for the tradecraft and mystification of espionage, experimenting personally with disguises, mechanical gadgets, and secret inks in his own laboratory.

A somewhat eccentric and difficult personality, the latter years of his life were plagued by disputes with members of his family, particularly his nephew and heir, Giuseppe.

Like cage frequency vibration in a ball bearing, the half frequency whirl is a bearing instability that generates eccentric precession which can lead to poor performance and reduced life.

Mac ultimately spends several weeks in Ferness, gradually adapting to the slower-paced life and getting to know the eccentric residents, most notably the hotel owner and accountant, Gordon Urquhart ( Denis Lawson ) and his wife, Stella ( Jennifer Black ).

In 2001 Cumyn published Losing It, a darkly funny novel about the eccentric sub-surfaces of contemporary life.

( 1758 – 1831 ) was a quiet and eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit.

Despite his many business successes in early life, he was known as an increasingly eccentric figure in American and Australian history.

Zach evidently had a complex and eccentric personality, which led to numerous conflicts that plagued his life at Mainz.

* Richard Darwell, Madcap's Progress: the life of the eccentric Regency sportsman John Mytton.

He was an engineer by profession ; later in life he taught at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France, where he had a reputation for eccentric choices of notation.

When not working, Jack often hangs with his eccentric friends, Leo Trench, an agoraphobic computer hacker who, like one of the characters in McKellar's earlier comedy series, Twitch City, is unable to leave his apartment but nonetheless leads a complex and bizarre life, and Bobby Lee, an Asian kid who works in the family store by day, and is a club disc-jockey and masked hero by night.

In his later years, the main troubles of his life stem from his many sisters, particularly the formidable Connie, who despair at his eccentric appearance and distracted ways, and his younger son Freddie, who he longs to see safely married off and out of trouble ; his joy at seeing him finally paired off with Aggie Donaldson knows no bounds.