He can't suppress his own mania for even a week.
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The ongoing mania for cupcakes fits into this idea very neatly.
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A defining characteristic of our species is our mania for expansion.
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Outside Brussels, Charlemagne has never heard such unabashed mania for federalism.
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But the mania for cryptocurrencies is outpacing regulators' ability to keep up.
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Rachel and Zachariah, both Russian, share parents and a mania for boxing.
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What does this mania for a dead, corrupt politician say about contemporary Japan?
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Rebel Rebel has benefited in recent years from a growing mania for vinyl.
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Maybe this partly explains the mania for pictures: Everyone wants to stop time.
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The mania for index funds isn't merely to do with their low fees.
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Humans, however, have always had a mania for investing blunt astronomical facts with imagination.
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It's Cyber Monday mania for tons of online retailers today, but especially for Amazon.
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For the prigs, the mania for FAANG stocks is as abhorrent as a split infinitive.
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The mania for all things Viking has been a mixed blessing for the two longships.
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A mania for deals in mature industries, premised on debt and austerity, is in full swing.
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Yet when it comes to its weapons, suddenly Battlefield has a mania for specificity and character.
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The mania for all things related to the NFL's annual championship game spreads beyond game day.
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He was there more out of a sense of exploration than any particular mania for environmentalism.
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"The mania for the tangible is the predictable consequence of the intangibility of religious belief," she writes.
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MADNESS RULES THE HOUR Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War By Paul Starobin 268 pp. PublicAffairs.
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The mania for changing names began in newly independent India with the effacement of old British names.
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Indeed, the summit provided ample evidence of the EU's difficulty in managing its members' current mania for referendums.
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Looks like the people of Sevnica plan to carry on Melania Mania for as long as they can.
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In the 1990s, "irrational exuberance" and a mania for internet stocks created an unsustainable bubble in share prices.
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At the time of Ms. Buck's institutionalization, the United States was swept up in a mania for eugenics.
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I think it's obvious enough why humans are irrational, but where does this mania for rationality come from?
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"In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late," she said.
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He lived in an era when record-keeping was expanding exponentially, partly because of his own mania for documentation.
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The mania for sleep technology makes perfect sense for the tech industry, combining as it does several existing trends.
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The president's advisers need to persuade him that a mania for quick results is a first step toward failure.
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The Korean mania for chi-maek has spread with the Asian mania for Korean TV. China in particular has gone completely ape for a Korean soap opera called My Love from the Star, about a handsome alien who falls in love with a beautiful Korean woman, whose favorite food is chi-maek.
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The 17th-century mania for tulips anticipated the development of the country's flower industry, now one of Holland's largest exports.
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These Americans reflect the mania for certainty in Irish sectarianism, but Laird also connects their extremism directly back to Trumpism.
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This helps explain Europe's mania for referendums, which pose a greater threat to parliaments than anything the EU may do.
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His mania for being seen and heard and mentioned has proved exceptionally well suited, maybe codependent, to the current age.
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The look is a mishmash collection that slots into fashion's reigning mania for mothballed vintage (priced, of course, like new).
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His father instilled a love of books and The New York Times and a mania for using his time constructively.
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All the ideal DNA is there, then, in Sonic Mania—for this fan of the first wave of Sonic games, anyway.
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To finance their escape, the lovers try to capitalize on the mania for tulips that seized the Netherlands in the 1630s.
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Her neurotic adaptations to ongoing grief — including strange headaches and a mania for horoscopes — at some point morph into something else.
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In the 1980s, a mania for finance degrees and with relative ease of entry meant a flood of Indian M.B.A. students.
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The mania for natural wine has puzzled many: How can wine, presumably a simple mix of grapes and yeast, be unnatural?
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Yes, the mania for cryptocurrency is driven by greed — but it could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
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Feature Yes, it's driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
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The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.
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Unchecked, the administration's mania for extractive uses will sacrifice a considerable part of the national heritage our public lands provide, perhaps forever.
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But, as in the earlier mania for technology companies, there are growing concerns that this boom could produce more disappointment than riches.
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But the other thing about China is a mania for on-demand delivery — Chinese want what they want, and they want it now.
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The mania for tech platforms that match cars with riders rests on the idea that they can turn car-hire into critical urban-transport infrastructure.
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The mania for billion-dollar valuations is the result of the business model of the venture capital market — not some legitimate definition of startup success.
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A passionate romance with the influential florist Constance Spry brought with it inspiring holidays in North Africa — and a mania for plant and flower portraits.
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There's a risk here that Facebook's mania for stories will be interpreted as overkill by its users, and the feature will ultimately fade into the background.
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"The government's mania for deregulation means our current safety standards just aren't good enough," said Sam Webb, an architect and fire expert, in the BBC report.
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In January 2018, the mania for selling volatility options reached an extreme and reversed — causing some exchange-listed volatility instruments to implode and exacerbate the selloff.
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In 2014, large crowds, combined with a mania for taking selfies with the peloton in the background, caused several crashes during the Tour's opening stages in England.
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The active shooter has always seemed a particularly — if not exclusively — American menace, a dark confluence of the country's mania for guns, self-definition, reinvention and fame.
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The market's only hope is that his mania for self-preservation will force the conclusion that he must end the trade war for the market to rebound.
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Through my research and travel, from rural Texas to Kyoto, Japan, I found that the current mania for minimalism is actually a distortion of the movement's origins.
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But a huge chunk of baby food consumption is homemade, experts say — a reflection of a mania for organic, fresh products and an increasing rejection of processed brands.
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One of the world's most popular bitcoin exchanges is struggling to keep up with soaring demand as the global mania for the cryptocurrency drives wild swings in valuation.
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The sheer scope of this creature reminded me of the mania for dinosaur fossils exemplified by early 20th century circuses and museums slapped together by showmen like Barnum Brown.
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In a note last month on what it called "central bank mania for lower-forever rates", Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said the traditional banking model was being destroyed.
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There can be a mania for fetishistic rule-following in the name of fairness, with citizen's-arrest-style confrontations that feel more kindergarten bully than protector of the peace.
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The mania for expanded universes and spinoff franchises has engulfed Hollywood's big studios in recent years, and it threatens to ruin their ability to tell clear and definitive stories.
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But that decision — and the push for secrecy and mania for speed that have accompanied it — has left Republicans in an indefensible position, and with a very weak bill.
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In the first decade of the new millennium, long before today's mania for daintier vintage timepieces began, watchmakers routinely produced colossal styles approaching 50 millimeters, or 2 inches, in diameter.
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While mania for tax cuts is an important driver of the GOP push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it might also ultimately be what leads them to abandon it.
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The MCU films have set off a mania for interconnected multi-platform franchises and multi-film arcs, not to mention a still-growing tide of superhero stories in every possible medium.
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There can be no doubt that Sloane's attempt to obtain a version of the entire world in his private collection resembles the British imperial mania for ownership over lands and peoples.
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I'll be wanting to play both, switching (har, har) between them on the move, to best suit whatever mood I'm in—Kingdom Battle for thoughtful chilling, Mania for pulse-raising speed.
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The Dutch tulip mania, for instance, appeared in the mid-1630s at a time of massive capital inflows, falling interest rates and massive money printing by Amsterdam's Wisselbank, Europe's first central bank.
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" Moore partly attributed his decision to the mania for superhero movies, saying, "I have great love for those characters as they were to me when I was a 13-year-old boy.
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When Seth Grahame-Smith mixed classic literature with fanboy fads in the 2009 novel Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, he inadvertently set off a short-lived publishing mania for monster mash-ups.
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SEGA has also brought along the 2017-due Sonic Mania for its UK debut, and the line for it reaches Come on I've Got Other Shit to Do Today levels of interest.
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Long hours crouched over a microscope, combined with Cajal's self-described "irresistible mania for scribbling," resulted in hundreds of detailed sketches of neurons, neuroglia, and all the other goop in our skulls.
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So is it any wonder that the mania for arraying food on boards has crept well beyond the borders that separate cheese-and-charcuterie-ville from the rest of the food world?
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Films and scripted television have been in reboot/sequel mania for years as studios and networks know there's a market for people curious to follow the lives and loves of familiar faces and characters.
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The budget was overcomplex (a mania for hypothecation means that school sports will be funded by a sugar levy), but its beneficiaries—small businesses, the young and the neglected Britons outside London—were deserving.
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When future humans (or possibly extraterrestrials) look back on the current era of creativity, they will have plenty to discuss, from our obsession with selfies to our mania for 3D printing anything and everything.
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ROBERT CHECCHIO Dunellen, N.J. To the Editor: Re "Self-Driving Cars Need Driver's Ed," by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle (Op-Ed, July 7): Where has this mania for developing self-driving cars come from?
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To render him ineffective, they actively support a collective mania for ever more sweeping investigations of dubious claims, rumors, unsubstantiated allegations and innuendos that has descended over the President, his family, his associates, and nominees.
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Then, in 22003, came "The Wild Wild West," a CBS series that, somewhat improbably, grafted the mania for spy fare set off by the James Bond movies of the day onto an Old West setting.
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The painter had been bitten by the bug of "Japonisme," a mania for Japanese aesthetics that swept Europe in the 19th century, and which also afflicted painters such as Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.
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In the wake of the Civil War's unprecedented loss of life, a mania for spectral images seized the nation when the photographer William Mumler claimed he could capture the souls of the dead with his camera.
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Maybe it's a result of extreme weather patterns, but meteorologists seem to have developed a mania for naming storms — it is no longer simply hurricanes to which we assign names, but snowstorms and even ferocious rainstorms.
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And Mr Benjamin is sceptical of the tendency, perhaps even the mania, for classification, the glib assurance of diagnosis: But these points would be stronger if he relied less on personal anecdote and more on professional expertise.
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We picked up our order and headed back to the office to test out the meatless mania for ourselvesBack at INSIDER headquarters, we set up in the communal kitchen and strapped on our highly professional taste-test blinders.
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Even more than "Best in Show," the new movie aims dead center at a national mania for competitions that threatens to transform everyday human activities into cutthroat show-business battles designed for television, with judges, awards and hoopla.
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Parents now knew the sex of their baby before birth, which helped spark a kind of mania for gendered dolls, frilly onesies, tiny cars, and pink and blue things of basically every size and shape, according to Paoletti.
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At the beginning of 2016, in what Ms. Hill describes as "opening the floodgates," Demna Gvasalia, at the height of the mania for his Vetements label, published a 304-page book of behind-the-scenes photos with Idea.
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It's a confusing story and one at odds with the all but official Polish mania for startups that culminated in the official announcement that the conservative Polish government created a 630 million euro fund to support the local ecosystem.
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In what is a good snapshot of the mania for crypto-currencies, Kodak's share price soared by 300% after it announced a new service based on blockchain technology to give photographers more control over the rights for their pictures.
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I shouldn't even mention my brief mania for giving "theme" dinners in which the theme was known only to me: the Prematurely Bald Men Party; the Dinner at Which Everyone's Boyfriend Is Named Dave; the All-Strangers Spaghetti Gala.
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The modern mania for the multivolume biography of figures who seem in most ways "minor" may have begun with Michael Holroyd's two volumes devoted to Lytton Strachey , who was wonderful and influential but a miniaturist perhaps best treated as such.
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The square was filled well beyond its estimated capacity of about 60,000 people, and crowds spilled out into several adjacent streets and lined the parade route — a reflection of how the Raptors' success has fueled a mania for basketball in Toronto.
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Instead, MSW, technically the sole member of Hell, was seated due to a broken foot and surrounded by members of Mizmor and Mania for the live show—no costumes and no smoke, just four people producing the most pleasantly unpleasant doom metal imaginable.
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" He's introduced, as he was in the first book, by Professor Maryanne Crescent Moon, and her words lightly nod to the mania for Handmaid costumes: Moon tells her fellow-academics about a planned Gilead reënactment, but advises them "not to get carried away.
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AMLO mania For many of the 89 million eligible Mexican voters, Sunday's election was a referendum on the country's political elite and its economic direction, as well as the tenure of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was limited to a single six-year term.
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She directs a goodly portion of her wrath at the American candy store of quackeries: the "mindfulness" industry; Silicon Valley-style "biohacks" meant to engineer immortality; integrative holistic health; the mania for fitness (even though the author admits to being something of a gym rat herself).
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Addressing Kubrick's mania for multiple takes, Mr. Vitali observes that the filmmaker did not ask for them because of dissatisfaction with his actors, but because he needed to break down a scene, observe how it was or was not coming together, before he could ever abandon it.
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From Benjamin Franklin's 13-week plan for self-optimization to young Gatsby's daily routine ("practice elocution, poise and how to attain it"), nothing captures quite so well our essential optimism, mania for self-improvement and suspicion of leisure — not to mention the unapologetic grasping that so galled de Tocqueville.
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Their mania for the latest thing is so strong, it outweighs all worries about privacy and price; it erases all concern over facial scanning and the odd glass back, all doubts about whether you really need a "Super Retina" screen or whether animoji is a novelty you'll use for five days at most.
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But other than Roussel's imaginary Africa, Duchamp seems mainly unaffected by the Dada mania for everything African, as does Francis Picabia and his quasi-machine painting entitled "Serpentins I" (1918) that is correctly placed near Duchamp's infamous "Fountain" (1917): the banal porcelain pissoir (urinal) signed with the nom de plume R. Mutt (much brouhaha followed).
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Like all of Mr. Büsser's timepieces, the titanium model was a nostalgic ode to his 21994s youth (in this case, his mania for assembling model aircraft) as well as a love letter to kinetic art, a category he champions at his four M.A.D. Gallery locations, in Geneva; Hong Kong; Taipei, Taiwan; and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
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Swapping his former signature mania for a rigorous reductivism, he broke pieces down to their simplest state — a skirt, a trench, a trouser — put them on men and women, no matter, and then shifted their purpose ever so slightly, so trousers become a cape-like dress; skirts, strapless gowns; the trench coat, a pair of long shorts.
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There really is no way to accurately compare happiness today with happiness 50 or 100 years ago, but this mania for individual satisfaction and this idea that buying and collecting more stuff will make us happy has produced a spectacularly unequal world, and it has, in my opinion, left people less fulfilled and more empty inside.
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"In Germany, anyone who shows initiative or — above all — wants to do things differently is in danger of drowning in a morass of well-intentioned regulations," he said, adding that "the German mania for red tape" meant it was much more expensive to build a single-family home in Germany than in the neighboring Netherlands, even though wage levels were comparable.
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" The years immediately following World War II, Mr. Wolfe wrote, brought "a mania for cars" that was especially intense in the South, where "to millions of good old boys, and girls, the automobile represented not only liberation for what was still pretty much a land-bound form of social organization but also a great leap forward into 20th-century glamour.
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The narrator tries to size her up as he might have: As I continued observing her, I could see that although she was not pretty—her features were too heavy to be described in such conventional terms, they were very expressive, which was generally not considered appealing in a woman's face (hence the mania for treatments like Botox, for face creams that promised to freeze the features into youthful immobility; it was more than the mere pursuit of youth, it arose out of a universal aversion to a woman's propensity to be expressive, to be too much )—she was alluring, undoubtedly so.
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