What is "crazes"

Usage examples of "crazes".

We need go back no further than a generation to find abundant examples of eccentricities of style and expression, of crazes over some author or some book, as unaccountable on principles of art as many of the fashions in social life.

In it could be found the histories of boom-and-bust economic crazes, including the Mississippi and South Sea `Bubbles' and the extravagant run on Dutch tulips, scams that bamboozled the wealthy and titled of many nations.

Since the great diffusion of printing, these literary crazes have been more frequent and of shorter duration.

Yet we cannot help seeing that many of the books that are the subject of crazes utterly disappear in a very short time, while many others, approved by only a judicious few, continue in the market and slowly become standards, considered as good stock by the booksellers and continually in a limited demand.

Some time ago he began to show pictures like this - nightmare pictures - El Greco and Blake and all the new crazes jumbled together.

From a place high up in the middle of the air, where now the children could see a strange orange spiderweb of light spreading like a starburst of filament-fine lines, crazing in the trembling air as a projectile crazes glass.

The minute it crazes or chips, the vinegar in barbecue would leach the lead right out.