Sentence examples for a madness for from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a madness for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express an intense passion or obsession for something.
Example: "She has a madness for collecting rare books, often spending hours searching for them in dusty old shops."
Alternatives: "an obsession with" or "a passion for".

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"There's a madness for rugby here: we get thousands turning up at our open training sessions.

Of course, Neal Cassady was no Proust — he was a loquacious fool with a madness for living.

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March Madness is a triumphant march for a few, a despairing madness for many.

It had featured in one of the most agonising times of my life: as a boy, I volunteered in a fit of madness for a singing competition.

Not a generic madness, for Greek authors punctiliously identified varieties of disordered minds.

I sat down with Davis, author of mental health memoir "A Legacy of Madness" for a forthright conversation about what it was like to grow up with his mother's undiagnosed mental illness, and what he did to change the course of history in his family.

Eliminating an entire year is madness for a 9-year-old.

GM's trucks and big SUVs were a success, but it was madness for a car company to ignore cars and that was Wagoner's responsibility.

Folie à Deux (; French for "A Madness Shared by Two") is the fourth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy.

Boxing: Baltimore Boxing Promotions, operated by Meade graduate Jake Smith, returns to Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie for a "Madness at Michaels" card Thursday.

A sort of madness for land and expansion gripped the Yankees and English-speakers of the South, buttressed by "scientific" race theories that placed white Anglo-Americans over supposedly brutish Indians, Spaniards and those of mixed race.

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