Lunatic
Both words in one sentence
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So does Emily, who stares down a lunatic with a gun aimed at her head and later tells the president she "understands" when he tells her he can't give the nuclear launch codes up to save her life.
Source: Film / White House Down - Perhaps the most famous is the suggestion that he though that 'nuclear weapons were "paper tigers"' - the implication being that the man was a raving lunatic who either had no idea how nuclear weapons worked or didn't care how many people they killed because he placed zero value on Chinese lives.
Source: Twisting the Words - Late in Modern Warfare 3, Yuri explains that the reason he betrayed Makarov was because he went from a soldier to fanatical lunatic bent on conquering the world for Ultranationalist Russia, willing to use nuclear weapons and massacre civilians to get the insane, mutually-destructive war he wants.
Source: Not What I Signed On For
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