Morselli likewise remarks upon the rarity of manias amongst the Italian soldiers.
Re the cyclothymias, Montembault remarks that manias have been less numerous than melancholias in the present war, whereas in 1870, manias were more common than melancholias.
These manias are the result of low values really placed on man himself.
It has its maniasfor the month, for the season, for the year, like its manias of a day.
These diverse manias create fictitious dignities, presidents, vice-presidents, and secretaries of societies, the number of which is greater than that of the social questions they seek to solve.
He busied himself in archaeology,--a passion, or to speak more correctly, one of those manias which enable old men to fancy themselves still living.
Big Manias and Little Oddities While skating along at full speed, they heard the cars from Amsterdam coming close behind them.
Both were examples of those manias to which mankind is periodically subject.
Such manias were the Children's Crusade and the zeal of the flagellants in the Middle Ages.
The peculiar physical phenomena which have been referred to as characterizing epidemic excitement are best illustrated in the dancing manias of the Middle Ages and in the religious revival.
These homicidal manias have, of course, been very frequent in history.
Both in panics and in speculative manias we observe again a species of hypnotization.
The psychology of crazes is clearly seen in certain of its aspects in the homicidal manias that have swept over communities or whole countries at frequent intervals in the world's history.
Well,' thought Lancelot, 'the negro race is not the only one which is afflicted with manias for eating dirt.
All the great doctrines then took on the form ofmanias or delusions.
In fact, all popular manias are to be explained by it.
Manias and delusions are like fashions and fads in that they always seem to need a suggestion from some outside source, and often it is impossible to find such a source.
The manias and delusions also operate selection, but not always in the same way, or in any way which can be defined.
Often manias are logical deductions from notions (especially religious notions) which have been suggested, as in the case of the flagellants.
The manias and delusions therefore dominate the individual like the fashions, fads, and affectations.
In like manner, epidemics or manias of suicide occur by imitation, e.
Manias and delusions are mental phenomena, but they are social.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
