Sentence examples for manic desire from inspiring English sources
In 2009, Alain de Botton logged on to a critic's blog to denounce a review of his The Pleasures of Sorrows and Work in the New York Times, "driven by an almost manic desire to bad-mouth".
He could hear, he claimed, what people were saying about him: Schlingensief the wild man, the provocateur, the enfant terrible, now with this mad, manic desire to survive, fighting with a superhuman effort until his last breath.
Members of the Family are afflicted with a manic desire to consume human flesh, but restrict themselves to drinking blood to avoid becoming complete monsters.
The right-wing's manic desire to turn every horrific and bloody terror attack into a political vendetta against immigrants and Muslims is a worn script.
It is as though this institution somehow has a manic desire to prove its worth by sheer activity: good, bad, indifferent.
And yet, out of some sort of manic-depression or desire for hipster cred, we've become overly preoccupied with tearing down the most liberal president in decades using non-reality-based criticisms instead of laser-focusing our efforts and resources on tearing down the real killers -- conservatives, Tea Party people and the GOP.
One appeal of these volumes is their almost manic celebration of innocent desire.
And there's no feeling more poisonous than crashing and lamenting my inability to achieve the manic self's impossible desires.
By using this marriage plot – this triangle between Mitchell, Madeleine and Leonard – you end up exploring the whole wildness of psychology: not just everyday consciousness but desire, in Madeleine, manic depression, in Leonard, and mystical experience, in Mitchell and Leonardd, in a way, too).
Blankness seemed the only possible antidote to this relentlessly busy and manic spectacle; it was like the desire to slip into a hermetically sealed, fragrance-free chamber after shopping at Sephora.
Where Nixon can never, even at his best moments, give off a whiff of ease, Sheen's Frost exudes it; Sheen manages to suggest both Frost's manic effervescence and his dandy's desire to shine.
