Sentence examples for a maniac for from inspiring English sources

I'm kind of a maniac for detail.

After trying the skeleton bob sleigh, I couldn't stop laughing like a maniac for about forty minutes".

Besides, he felt much repugnance for that sort of happiness, bought at the chemist's and taken away in the vest-pocket, and he compared the ecstasy it induces to that of a maniac for whom painted canvas and rough drop-scenes take the place of real furniture and gardens balmy with the scent of genuine flowers.

"I'm a maniac for fabric," Pinto told me, and proved it by showing me some of her smartly tailored creations: a pleated "warrior wrap" in black taffeta ($980), an evening dress confected from mohair tulle netting onto which tiny beads have been embroidered ($3,835), and, my favorite, the short and swingy turquoise Lola coat in an especially hirsute alpaca ($2,815).

If nothing else, Liam should have wandered back in the pub his mouth crammed full of a dozen cigarettes going "What yer gonna fookin do eh?" before trying to get off with a barmaid and laughing like a maniac for the amusement of his cronies.

He had to drive like a maniac for most of the way and I was only just in time for the set!" - Lenzman, Metalheadz.

A young message runner returns from the fighting "looking like a maniac," calling for Captain Leane but unable to recognise the officer.

Sure, Al Gore, a k a Monsieur Tussaud, is an insufferable maniac for detail who hates delegating and is engineering every move in Florida.

It's Microsoft's Xbox 360, a new game console that connects to your TV. Bill Gates and company are clearly hoping that you'll want the thing not just to shoot down aliens, drive like a maniac and compete for gamer glory with online buddies but also to serve as the living-room gateway for your digital life.

"It was hard to kiss and watch out for a maniac at the same time".

Jentz's enraging account of her search for a maniac who viciously attacked her with an ax in 1977.