A maniacal act, that the footman-who had not heard the story-was unable to account for, save as a personal insult to himself.
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson
To a narrow and superficial reading, it exhibits itself as a wholesale repudiation of all moral responsibility and a maniacal attempt to subvert human civilization for the exclusive benefit of the "glorious blonde brute, rampant with greed for victory and spoil."
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
He was blind, in him was a sudden maniacal impulse to destroy; he had no thought of consequences.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach