This is from a poem ("The Proper Halo") that he wrote in the 1980s, but it could have been written at almost any period in Redgrove's life - exact, excessive, delighted, with a touch of manic humour.
Nate Bray-Marks, the ship's chief engineer, pink faced and with a touch of Jack Black's manic jubilance, seizes lines surely and swiftly.
Best presents us with a tart, feisty Beatrice, whose obsessive harping on her single state suggests a touch of desperation and whose gaiety is faintly manic.
A touch of Hogwarts hovers over the film, but the earnest, solemn, blue-eyed schoolboy has been replaced by a hyperverbal, occasionally manic Jewish adolescent from Paterson, N.J.
All the negative football stereotypes were on display yesterday long balls into touch, diving, manic fouls, low-scoring, a boring game littered with stoppages.
While Dismemberment Plan opens up emo with touches of manic humor and outright funk, emo is more likely to brood like the band Karate, a trio that played somber, measured guitar riffs and jazz-tinged leads behind sentiments like "This is how young ideas die".
At first Schachter tagged all the links himself with the subjects they touched on, like a manic filing clerk.
What if you have a mental illness and you are in the throes of a bad depressive, manic, psychotic (out of touch with reality) episode?
