| Staggering about out of your head is not, I assure you, quite the same as being manically inspired by mescal. |
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| As firelight flickers across his craggy face and sweat runs down his ample forehead, you can bet he's laughing manically. |
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| At a critical juncture in England's vital final group game, two Swedes took to tearing up and down the pitchside manically waving huge flags. |
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| The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside, seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain. |
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| The South Carolina general sat his horse, chewing manically on his cigar. |
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| I remember crying my heart out, while he only cackled manically. |
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| The characters' faces beam the big-eyed, manically jolly winsomeness that in anime and manga signals contentment. |
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| Soon she was laughing manically, her cackles echoing throughout the caves. |
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| My days during stuvac are spent cooped up inside manically studying. |
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| The cast change costumes, accents and personas manically and heroically. |
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| Last year I tried staying manically busy, and that didn't work. |
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| And the dancing itself offers the same paradox: wildly, roughly physical and large scale, it is also manically precise and detailed. |
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| Getting the entry price right is much easier when the seller is manically depressed or fearful about the future. |
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| They keep whooping and hollering and waggling their banners manically. |
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| Undeterred, Anna manically lobs yet more memories as if they are weapons. |
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| As this newspaper pointed out last week, the clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up. |
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| Mr Skilling, too, seems entirely unaware of the crimes being orchestrated just below him in the corporate hierarchy drinking too much, and swinging manically between jovial over-optimism and deep depression. |
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| While it remains a source of mild embarrassment, some of my most memorable betting moments have come when manically chasing losses. |
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| You enter a cloud of billowing smoke, where lights of different colours strobe manically to an electronic soundscape and a strange thing happens. |
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| In the weeks building up to the go-live, we began to fix problems manically. |
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| Then some not-so-wise men manically enacted pantomime routines before the big switch on which illuminated the city centre. |
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| Next to me, a gent in a bulbous papier-mache head jigged and waved manically to friends and family. |
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| She's a manically cheery person who thinks that because I live and breathe in the world of news, I've become laden with the gloom of it all. |
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| If I'm perfectly honest, he's only really had two main leisure pursuits until now: staring at lightbulbs and manically woodpeckering away at my wife's nipples, often while screaming. |
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| Political placemen, journeymen, with no real understanding of the outside world at all, manically producing flawed and dangerous legislation, while we greedily suck at the public teat with our ludicrous posturing. |
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| As the blue-skinned genie, Mr Williams riffed manically, forcing the animators to make the character change shape incessantly to follow Mr Williams's hurtling trains of thought. |
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| The RLPO brass and woodwind jeer, heckle and cackle manically and Petrenko delivers a blistering performance which only falters slightly in the Mahlerian finale. |
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