1. The hammering and pounding made a terrific noise, as if the old men were tuning dementedly a giant xylophone.

2. “All the windows had already been smashed, and a Brownshirt with a sledgehammer was dementedly swinging it against the heavy doors

3. Unperturbed, some yaks and goats quietly graze, while a brutish dog goes berserk, tugging dementedly at a rope in an effort to get free and kill me.