How To Use Mania In A Sentence

To our no small surprise, very soon after this quietus had been given to bibliomaniacal hopes, the books in question appeared before us in excellent condition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
There's no insight into Alexander's transition from beloved leader to drunken megalomaniac; one minute he has his subjects hanging on his every word, and then next thing you know he's declaring himself a god.
His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
I imagined the Tasmanian tiger stopping here en route from one primeval forest valley to another.
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Yet the confusing thing about her mania, says Todd, is her ability to remain articulate, clever and funny.
The far northwest coast of Tasmania is a wild place. Times, Sunday Times
He combined athleticism, judgement and skill in an irresistible mix - and he was a great sportsman, totally devoid of egomania.
The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
Flutist and piccoloist Diane Boyd Schultz has established her career through solo and chamber performances in the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Austria. Meridian Star Homepage
Bibliomaniacs were censured, that is, for eschewing commonplace means of engaging the material traces of the literary past and commonplace means of cohabiting with the nation's literary tradition. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
Alex's first attempt to save his friend from the rough sex maniac went sour, but he's determined to try again regardless of the consequences.
Nevertheless, the only East European country to sign up has been Romania (and the Romanian government is now back-pedalling, claiming that it was intimidated by Washington).
His obsession verges on monomania, and he becomes ‘bewitched to her memory’.
The game is designed to be fun to play and a lighthearted approach to being a evil scheming megalomaniac, so although there are many different ways of being evil, there is no slavery or genocide.
There is a further corrosive effect of this mania for judging people on what they are, not what they do. Times, Sunday Times
It's the sort of consignment Jan takes with her whenever she visits Romania, along with contraceptive coils and coffee.
Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
Leishmania species amastigotes are round and exhibit paranuclear bodies (kinetoplasts).
An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
He practiced for weeks," said Scott Lechert, 50, an instructional designer, who along with his partner, Paul Kelly, 55, a physical therapist, adopted Dru from a Romanian orphanage in Sweetness & Light
At best, he's a vain, insecure man; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist.
Larkham was in his element in his country's victory over Romania as he constantly probed for breaks against a brittle defence.
Whether or not you're a logomaniac (one obsessed with words), this esoteric collection of English words should prove entertaining; it even might make you cachinnate (laugh loudly) as you turn the pages.
In Australia, we know that there is activity at official or semi-official level in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria at least.
Although vigoro is mainly played in Tasmania, Queensland and New South Wales, Hendley said the origins of the game began in Victoria more than a century ago. The Advertiser - Front Page
Head turned in competingly fabulous directions, I find myself feeling positively kleptomaniac. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
All persons so committed may be detained n. 'jt'feci'maTbe in said hospital two years; but when it shall appear to the detained two trustees that any person held in said hospital will not continue to be subject to dipsomania or inebriety, or will be sufficiently provided for by themselves or their guar - dians, relatives or friends, they may issue to them a permit to be at liberty, upon such conditions as they deem Permit to be at Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
The story in Romania is broadly similar, though it did receive a boost from the depreciation of the leu. Journey's End—but Not for Latest Victims
Countries as diverse as Romania and Austria will be included.
The story also illustrates the most radical difference between mania and hypomania.
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
Reuters There is said by various parts of the media to be 'Cleggmania' in the country. Amid Volcanic Ash, Rises Nick Clegg
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Miranda and her two friends struggle not only with the trials of this new world, but with the tension between their old New Jersey identities and their “real” Roumanian identities. Book Review: The Tourmaline, by Paul Park | Mind on Fire
Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania. The French Revolution
Well, once again I'm not going to call them raving maniacs.
In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general. Indian Unrest
The simple design means assembly at the Romanian plant is done almost entirely without robots.
The Romanian government yesterday unveiled a new, scaled-down security force.
The cause of the mass below the surface was Times CEO Howell Raines, who had egomaniacally elbowed his way to the top. Egonomics
The danger of precipitating mania is reported to be greatest with tricyclic agents.
Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars.
Then she told Jerezano where on his windshield to put the decalcomania, wished him a good day and thanked him for coming to Mexico. Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!
Tsimbls used to be strung with thinner strings and less tension, in contrast to the Hungarian-Romanian cymbaloms of today, which use piano wire strung with a barbaric tension of 40-50 kilos per string.
The practice caused outrage at the EU, after it was revealed the CIA had used secret prisons in Romania and Poland and airports such as Prestwick in Scotland to conduct up to 1,200 rendition flights. The Times of India
The condition of infomania is easy to cure. Times, Sunday Times
The nomenklatura was ‘rewarded’ with access to the few imported commodities Romania had at the time.
Among the 55 Romanians deported were 33 men, 11 women, three juveniles and five children.
And, of course, mania usually alternates with depression, to form a bipolar disorder.
Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our womenfolk waving to the passing trams.
The canoes are often fitted out with sails and are well suited for navigating the waters of the Darien between the Panamanian coast and the islands.
Changes in sexual behavior, though uncommon, have been seen in patients with epilepsy, including hypersexuality, pansexuality, erotomania, sexual paranoia, exhibitionism, and fetishism.
Osons le dire: nos arbitrages ont une forme maniaco-dépressive avec de fortes amplitudes émotionnelles pouvant conduire à la folie ou au suicide cf. Archive 2009-04-10
The Tasmanian Turf Club banned bookmakers and confined betting on the island to the on-course totalisator in 1897.
They have been entombed in a cramped steel cage almost a kilometre beneath the surface since April 25 when an earthquake in the southern state of Tasmania triggered a rockfall.
When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
It was not a crushing weight, such as an operation, or seeing one's best friend off to live in Tasmania; nor was it anything so light as a committee meeting, or a deaf uncle to tea: it was a kind of welter-weight doom. Mrs. Miniver
Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
Moldovan official told Russia Today television that anti-Communist demonstrators want to overthrow the government and reunite the nation with neighboring Romania.
The Tasmanian devil is small, but stocky and muscular and leads the GTMS Team Australia attack. This beast shows no mercy against his opponents and is on the offense always.
The traditional Romanian cimbalom (dulcimer or zither) is the sole accompaniment on the dramatic and stately ‘Cine iubeste si lasa.’
The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the US.
Following closely behind Romania, Germany took home two golds and two silver medals also won solely by their women's squad.
The Romanian-Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian 1907-45 came to the attention of the English-speaking world in 2000 with the publication of his incandescently angry and exacting World War II diaries. Tender and Tense
An election that was initially greeted with general disinterest has since been transformed into one that has gripped the nation, due in no small part to the jolt of energy provided by the unexpected, and game changing, emergence of Nick Clegg and the 'Cleggmania' he inspired. UK Election: Candidates Make Final Push For Votes
One does not need to be laboring under maniacal egomania to begin to believe oneself above it all.
But maybe there's something just a little bit mad about these people, a little bit mythomaniac about them.
Tasmania were bowled out for 198, well short of the 313 they required for victory after Victoria declared at 3 for 181 in the morning.
I know I am a paranoid, psychotic, evil maniac.
The Panamanian–any Panamanian, regardless of position or social status–was a “Spiggotty” or “Spig,” terms supposedly derived in earlier years from the erroneous claim of Panama City hackmen that they could “speaks-da-English.” The Path Between the Seas
These guys are inexplicably stupid, tone deaf, suicidal and egomaniacally blind to the wishes of the American people. Home/News
Living near the factories where they worked, first-generation Romanian Americans established communities which often consisted of extended families or of those who had migrated from the same region in Romania.
The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
Yet it was an unhappy household, made worse by hints of Behrman's mania to come.
I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
His draw was so maniacally quick that he actually eliminated his targets before they could completely come into view.
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
Conclusion The recurrence of leishmaniasis was related with patients' residential area, occupation, age, length of the illness course, complications, dosage of antimonials.
Does the open ending of "Jurassic Park" mean more dinomania to come? A 'Jurassic' Sequel? Maybe.
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
Merger mania and speculation about a Boeing-McDonnell Douglas combination boosted the shares of aerospace and defense stocks.
In 1834, a snuffbox was presented to Thomas Braidwood Wilson, (the township of Braidwood is named after him) for introducing honeybees into Tasmania.
Blofeldism, an impossible and megalomaniac belief in world domination, is a perfect parody of Nazism and Stalinism —just as empty and just as deluded, although, thanks to 007, not nearly as deadly.
This is used for the deadly parasitic disease known as visceral leishmaniasis — or black fever — that is spread by the bite of the sandfly.
I know without a doubt that if provoked my mother could become a homicidal maniac in defence of her animals.
Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
The Romanian government yesterday unveiled a new, scaled-down security force.
They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.” The Song of The Dodo
In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
Reliable information on blood lead levels from many parts of Europe is lacking but studies from Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) suggest that average exposure levels in children may be high. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6
Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote? TV needs more sleuths of a certain age | EW.com
Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
He speaks Moldovan, which is close to Romanian, and hence learning Spanish and Italian in three months was piece of cake. Cafebabel.com
Although still infertile by world standards, soils here are generally higher in nutrient content than those in western Tasmania, especially the rich soils on dolerite substrate. Tasmanian temperate forests
The exercise followed a large display at the Rokeby Police Academy for Tasmanian emergency service workers and police cadets.
It'seems that books bought can better satisfy my bibliomania than books borrowed.
Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
As students of economic historian Charles Kindleberger know ("Panics, Manias, and Crashes"), financial manias throughout history have shared one trait: the excessive expansion of credit.
And, of course, mania usually alternates with depression, to form a bipolar disorder.
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
His brash style and megalomania also make him enemies.
Herman just so happened to be involved in a local nudie cutie camera club when he runs into the maniacal miss.
The twins were still making life hell for the old fogies around us with their incessant ‘Beatlemania’ style screaming.
= -- The term phyllomania has been vaguely applied both to the production of an unwonted number of leaves and to their development in unusual situations. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
For example, alterations in the efficiency of the cerebral link may yield neurasthenia, mania, dementia; of the thyroid link, Graves 'disease, myxedema; of the adrenal link, Addison's disease, cardiovascular disease. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
Diseases of the mind may manifest themselves in other ways which do not involve violence, for example, pyromania or kleptomania.
If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
I've been submerged with Guide proofreading, a semi-annual communal exercise in eyestrain and Twizzlers and chocolate-fueled mania; yesterday I couldn't stop calling everyone "enthusiasts" after reading the word one too many times. Reviews in a word
And so what you're indicating there is that there are degrees of mania when it comes to manic depression.
You are not only fratricidal, but matricidal, ecocidal and suicidal, dangerously in denial, certifiable, a maniacal, omnicidal menace not only to yourself and other animals, but all of the life on the planet. You Are What You Eat
It involves crossing the line that divides political radicalism from iconoclastic mania. IN DEFENCE OF ARISTOCRACY
From the outside - where more than a thousand ticketless Beatle - maniacs loiter hoping for a miracle, or at least a security guard with his back turned - you can almost see Convention Hall vibrating.
Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania, which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books.
He is not a homicidal maniac, but a violent, evil man made even more so by his addiction to unnamed drugs.
In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war.
I now await all the nasty comments from the hitch, newmania, verity and jus'passin'thru and more vulgar than a vulcans vulva...and of course anonymous... Quote of the Day
Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field. Wild Bill Donovan
George Carlin nailed this dynamic with his, "Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives too fast is a maniac, and everyone who drives too slowly is a moron, while you always drive at the correct speed? Barry Eisler: Fictional Politics
There are substantial Roma communities in all European countries, not just Romania and Bulgaria," said Virgil Bercea, the Greek Catholic bishop of Oradea. Romania Church Leaders Condemn Roma Deportations
It is not so much that Neil's blend of chippiness and egomania has abated, but that it has simply found its perfect outlet.
Nevertheless, the only East European country to sign up has been Romania (and the Romanian government is now back-pedalling, claiming that it was intimidated by Washington).
The bibliomaniac, that is, remakes the literary heritage as his cabinet library. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
Today is the the day we present our interview with Paul Blake, a developer from ToyVault -- the maniacal purveyors of the blasphemously adorable Plush Cthulhu line. The LNN interviews Paul Blake from ToyVault : The Lovecraft News Network
OK, hopefully the thought has crossed more than my mind that this whole Obama-mania is in a word, Messianic. The Buzz at Ben’s Chili Bowl - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
To avoid the charge of monomania, the authors are careful to constrain their claims.
In each, he runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
I just laughed like a maniac, remembering previous events.
A hyperactive manic patient will nearly always have a rapid heart rate, but it doesn't follow that a rapid heart rate causes the mania.
In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
He established the department of cardiology at Osmania Medical College in 1960, rising to become the college's principal.
Merger mania and speculation about a Boeing-McDonnell Douglas combination boosted the shares of aerospace and defense stocks.
With its bad language and schoolboy humour, Alfred Jarry's first and most influential play is the story of Mum and Dad Ubu, two gloriously evil megalomaniacs, who spur each other on to overthrow the regime.
Also know as erotomania, De Clérambault's syndrome is one in which a delusional belief is held by a patient that another person, usually older and of higher social status, famous, wealthy or in a professional relationship with the patient is deeply in love with them. Mental Nurse
Unchecked "infomania" - yes, there's even a term for this instapathology - can lead to a lower IQ, according to a 2005 Hewlett-Packard study. Undefined
Missing Tasmanian bushwalker Phillip Michael Dewis found after police search A MAN missing in bushland in Tasmania has found his way back to search crews alive and well. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
In the heady days of 2006 and 2007, investors often asked Mr. Thin questions about less-familiar currencies such as the Ukrainian hryvnia and Romanian leu, but the inquiries stopped abruptly when the global recession made investors wary about taking on riskier assets. 'Frontier' Markets Ahead For Currency Investors?
Another difficulty in classification is related to the fact that the dialects have in the past and continue to be influenced by numerous sociolinguistic or extralinguistic factors from the larger world in which Rusyns live, whether in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the United States, or Canada. Languagehat.com: RUSYN/RUTHENIAN.
`I've been telling the inspector for months that we hadn't heard the last of you and that fat egomaniac. MURDER IN E MINOR
Their position on a bill next to Melbourne's Five Star Prison Cell and Tasmania's technical death-metal heavy weights Psycroptic, I thought, was sure to drag even the broodiest of metal heads out from under their anti-social rocks for a pit, the likes of which the tiny venue could never hoped to prepare. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
Therefore psychologists treat a man suffering from mythomania by confronting him with facts.
Tasmania, Western Australia, and the Northern Territories are not members of the NEM, although Tasmania is expected to join in the next few months via the Basslink interconnector, a high voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine cable. Energy profile of Australia
Romania will launch a bid to extradite him to face attempted murder charges today. The Sun
She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania
I wonder what those passages can have been like; the residue is replete with an obsessive interest in excrement, disease, sexual mania, and insectlike reproduction, insofar as these apply to Muslims in general and to Muslim immigrants in Europe in particular. Holy Writ
There is no nobility in codependency with a maniac. Calitics - Front Page
Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
He commands this role, speaking in a frenzied bark of orders, put-downs and overwrought egomania.
The greater nervous power planted in the female organ is demonstrated by the andromania to which some women are subject, and which makes them either The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Orson Welles was a child prodigy, too, and of course he developed a sort of monomania which kind of baulked his career. Why VARK leaves me in the DARK « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
The smooth froglet is found throughout northern and central Tasmania, where it occurs in wet and dry forests.
I feel so care free that I could go down on a disabled child and call them a nymphomaniac, just like him. Cheeseburger Gothic » There will be a short break in transmission while I get back under this bus.
This might indicate a predisposition to elevated mood and mania, they speculate.
Hunting-tourism has become big business in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, the last place in Europe apart from Russia, where many large carnivores, bears, wolves and lynxes, can be found.
I do not wish to turn into a gibbering homicidal maniac, especially just before Christmas.
But the front page splash was all about how he had changed his tune on a few key issues such as a pulp mill in Tasmania and American bases.
In this sense, de-Manian discontinuity is more radical "discontinuous" than discontinuity itself, that is, than any form of the discontinuous we can conceive of. Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
Her mind had not had time to deal with the wider implications of all that sadistic megalomania trapped inside the woman who ruled Medalon. TREASON KEEP
This family's story illustrates the concrete relationship between mania and hypomania.
The Romanian Revolution was the most dramatic of a wave of uprisings that ended totalitarian rule throughout Eastern Europe.
Maybe he wasn't really that arrogant, cocky egomaniac that he pretended to be.
Infomania erodes our capacity for significance. With a mind-set fixed on information, our attention shortens
My mum is turning into a religious maniac.
By now, I'd dealt with lots rock stars ... the sullen, the egomaniacs, the coked, the drunk, the "shhh I'm not here" types. C.P. Roth: My Visit With John Lennon at the Dakota, 1978
And they claim an unimaginative and logorrheic egomaniac to have been the voice of the voiceless. Times, Sunday Times
Tens of thousands in banking knew the deals they were closing made no sense and suspected that flattery and egomania had turned their and their masters' heads. Why omerta still suits the the City's mafiosi | Nick Cohen
Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
Mainly I'm a bibliomaniac and I do a lot of book collecting and I have some nice books, first editions and so on.
He moved from side to side threateningly, like a maniac in a horror movie and I froze in complete panic.
New study leads to the development of first prophylactic treatment for leishmania THE MEDICAL NEWS
Then came Mrs. T's revolution, which delivered the coup de grace to heavy manufacturing after decades of free trade mania and dirigiste trade unions had resulted in us becoming 'uncompetitive', a sin apparently on a par with barratry and fratricide. Whae's Like Us ?
In the past, the building of such mega-projects as complete new cities was frequently driven by the megalomania of some despotic ruler.
National News / Slavery Lessons the Anti-White Establishment Will Not Teach Our Children In the anti-white mania which has gripped modern Britain, the Atlantic Slave Trade is to be given wide prominence in schools from this term onwards - but the million Europeans who were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 will be ignored. The British National Party
The Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Serbian monasteries on the holy mountain attest to the Byzantine Empire's cultural diversity. The Holy Mountain
Many patients with depression are now recognized as having bipolar disorder, a chronic biphasic mood disorder with episodes of both depression and mania or hypomania.
Tasmanian devils have for some years been plagued with a mysterious and lethal cancer. Now, the dog-sized mammals are fighting back: They are breeding at younger ages.
Cryptocurrency mania shows no sign of relenting just yet. Times, Sunday Times
Osmania University was a harmonious blend of Hindu-Muslim architecture, Prof. Rao pointed out.
And I learnt that the only emetic known to the Albanian pharmacopoeia is human excrement and water – given in all cases of supposed poisoning; and that the remedy for dipsomania is the same, mixed with rakia. High Albania
Beginning with a gorgeous title sequence during which we watch History Professor George (Burton) and his saucy and sauced wife Martha (Taylor) walking back from a function drunk and cackling, the movie immediately places us in their dark, disconsolate universe -- one of shattered hopes, nihilism, and dipsomaniacal game playing. Kim Morgan: Ugly Talents: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country between Romania and Ukraine that covers 13,199 square miles (33,845 square kilometers).
The on-for-nous passive-voice mania promotes imprecision, yet nobody wants to sprain their tongue conjugating verbs suffixed by ‘ons’.
Don't cooperate with this guy, he is an egomaniac .
For many, having trichotillomania remains their biggest secret.
Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania.
Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
Not perfectly—there are other issues, like Vitamin D deficiency, a maniac cat who jumps on me at 4:00 in the morning, and 6:00 a.m. horn honker outside who in the most loving and nonviolent way needs to be shot—but better. Caffeine, Annotated
At issue is a pocket of land at Recherche Bay on Tasmania's southern coast.
The violence of the crowd can only be explained as a sign of some collective mania.
R These locals, led by manic violinist Steve Gibons, might be the city's best practitioners of Roma music -- and there's only one ringer in the bunch, cimbalom virtuoso Nicolae Feraru, a Romanian expat who also leads his own group and a few years ago backed Serbian legend Saban Bajramovic at HotHouse. Chicago Reader
nymphomaniac", which was far too strong a word for what, post-sexual revolution, is perfectly normal behaviour. Top stories from Times Online
Moldavia, a republic of more than 4 million people, borders Romania.
To me, it illustrates that the son is incapable of distinguishing between singleness of purpose and monomania.
The book criticies the graphomania, singers like Azis and Ivana, Gergana and anecdote because of their cynism. Mayor visits opening of book
But that was before "Cleggmania" swept the country. 'Cleggmania' Sweeps Britain, Liberal Democrats Surge In Polls

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