What is "manic"

Usage examples of "manic".

Either the analysand is phenomenally ignorant of anatomy, especially female anatomy, or he is here hallucinating a manic wish-fantasy born of libido too long suppressed.

They thrust outward from the ship, pulling webs of malleable hull tissue within their loops to form a chaotic array of cooling fins, until Null Boundary resembled some manic crystal tree, leaved in a jumble of glassy planes.

The aliens were hardly fearful of anything the lone Hyfft might do, while the assembled dignitaries and representatives of the collective Overwatches of Vinen-Aq could only alternately marvel and gape at the manic boldness of one of their own.

We drove very slowly for about a minute and then a red light on the dashboard blinked and there was a manic chirping like a parakeet on speed.

Bipolar disorder, periodic antisocial behavior, manic episodes of moderate severity, grandiose and persecutory delusions.

Al the Barb seemed mighty twitchy, but if memory served her right, his manic edge was as much shuck as his cowboy routine.

She opened out toward him, a shade manic, breathing as though in some crosscurrent of exhaustion and need, her eyes empty of intent.

She called such manic bursts the inherent bias in favor of action, and she had learned to resist it.

He saw, not a mannequin, but Scaramouche, dressed in comic garments pale as death, face split in manic grin, eyes glittering.

There she hung, magnified in the long lens, spinning with a manic vengeance, with her masts stuck up like spindles and her stationary mast surfaces bristling with knobby bits that were pushers and tenders, and shuttles from the Shepherds and such.

Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.

He came out of there, his sixth novel still unplaced, but with a new job, that of Special Director of the Tantalus Press, where he went on to work about a day a week, soliciting and marking up illiterate novels, total-recall autobiographies in which no one ever went anywhere or did anything, collections of primitive verse, very long laments for dead relatives (and pets and plants), crackpot scientific treatises and, increasingly, it seemed to him, "found" dramatic monologues about manic depression and schizophrenia.

I am about to reply when from outside the bar the manic beeping of a rickshaw-boy's heels makes us both turn to the window.

He said it with no qualification, and it hadn't escaped DuPuy's notice that the manic supply boat activity in the rest of the squadron's berthings didn't include Redemption.

All that remained to be done was to get some assessment of the weapons available to the bindlestiff~ on this subject the manic was ignorant, but the city’s analyst said cautiously that something might be extracted from the catatonic within a month or two.