Its manic pace has been influenced by the fact that ecstasy, the raver's stimulant of choice, has become steadily more adulterated with amphetamine.

This book is not really a sustained argument but a series of pronouncements reeled off at a manic pace.

Gris Grimly's black-and-white drawings capture something of the tale's manic pace, but his Pinocchio is all puppet.

Unlike most shows, which he finds sluggish, "The Simpsons" is written to move at a manic pace.

The news shows continued at their manic pace, the reporters obviously astonished by the developments of the day.

Although the man has a honeyed Deep South accent, the manic pace of his verbal fusillade makes it hard to decipher everything he is saying.

In the face of which onrushing intrusion of reality Senzio town merely intensified the already manic pace of its dark hours.

Richie took Ben's commands - which had become rather tentative again, with two more kids to general - with perfect willingness, and fulfilled them at a manic pace.

That manic pace slowed over the years to a slightly more modest 24-month cycle.

The manic pace and utter disbelief of the velvet revolution has subsided.