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How to use the word maniacal in a Sentence?

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[The schools] have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes for all students at all costs. And at the heart of the American dream, is excelling, is advancing, is stretching and recognizing that we have students that have different capabilities, some students have the ability to perform at one level, others need more help, and we have to allow students to run as fast as they can to dream the biggest dreams they can possibly dream and then go get them.

Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we've learned anything over the past week, it's that CNN is not only a cult, but a cult of maniacal proportions, initially, one could argue the accolades for Zucker were a combination of fear about what he can still do to peopleand true hero worship, but it quickly became evident that it was entirelythe latter.

Curtis Houck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The American people gave the Congress to a group of very conservative Republicans, when they passed bills with the veto-proof majority with a lot of Democrats voting for it, that I couldn't stop, all of a sudden we turn out to be maniacal deregulators. I mean, come on.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They have a maniacal focus on cash and results, you've got to be very careful about putting a bull in a china shop unless you're prepared to have a lot of broken glass.

Gary Stibel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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