It's cruel to call a mental patient a nut, but it's crackbrained to try to ban words like nuttiness from everyday discourse.
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Regretfully Marius at last emerged as " the crackbrained chief of a reckless band of robbers " which earned him " the hatred of the entire nation ".
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Instead, embrace the " upbeat negative " : attacking the other guy's cheap, weaselly, crackbrained ideas is a necessary counterpoint to presenting your own.
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Modesto police detectives didn't follow up on reports of Laci Peterson sightings, ignored possible suspects in the missing-person investigation and had crackbrained theories about the case that never panned out, according to attorneys representing Scott Peterson.
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That reflects general usage; to be nutty is to be mildly crackbrained and is often used in self-description of too-earnest advocacy : I readily call myself a " privacy nut, " but would not flagellate myself as a " privacy freak ."
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But only those who have experienced the fathomless hell of the crackbrained stories most designers come up with to account for inspiration ( " I was thinking Heidi meets Charlotte Rampling in'The Damned'and then all of them go on vacation with Shrek " ) can fully appreciate Prada's brand of hard-headed consciousness.
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"Destructoid " said of the Xbox 360 version : " This crackbrained horror romp takes camp to a new extreme and wants you, the player, to have nothing but fun the entire time . " GameSpot praied the game's sound design, challenging and terrifying bosses, varied gameplay, and clever use of darkness, but criticized the lack of a new game + function as well as the stiff animation.