amuck

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• This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity.
• This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier. The Girl Can't Help It
• Now, having a new cold virus running amuck that can superinfect people with an untreatable pneumonia is definitely bad news. Globe and Mail
• `In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. THE OUTSIDER
• Carrying a bunch of regular slaves, but forward was a batch that were a gift from the Satrap of Jamaillia himself to some high muckamuck in Chalced. Ship Of Magic
• Not too worried about that final castle in the sky are the muckamucks at Elad. Developers Rain on the Dead
• I always thought this burg was Mecca for complainers, and anathema for lemmings and sheep who roll over for any scheming muckamuck who comes along. The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument
• You can get those English high-muckamucks by mail for two bucks apiece, '' suggested Sidney Finkelstein. Babbitt
• She apparently has her own way in everything now, the old chief being quite satisfied to get his rations of muckamuck and tobacco without troubling himself as to how it is provided. Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia
• You do realize that progressivism is the government running amuck? Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform.