| Barely a blade of grass has escaped the maniacal concretisation of the place. |
| His maniacal obsession with work, and the contained fury of his working methods, are beautifully conveyed. |
| Partial recoveries are also noted, where the patient ceases to be maniacal but exhibits an undue excitability. |
| The maniacal, simplistic tone of this book is guaranteed to irritate anyone who ever had a thought of their own. |
| His privacy is his most treasured possession, an obsession that borders on maniacal. |
| I enjoy the excess of precision, a kind of maniacal exactitude of language, a descriptive madness. |
