If you describe someone's behaviour as maniacal, you mean that it is extreme, violent, or very determined, as if the person were insane. adj. (disapproval) He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records..., She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
It was his way of telling his friend he knew he was dying. It was his way of saying good-bye to him. In May of this year Gary Cooper, 60, died of cancer. Hemingway was too ill to attend the funeral, although he was an honorary pallbearer. Less than two months later, 62-year-old Papa, despondent and depressed by Coop's death, shot and killed himself.
Cooperâs father, Wyatt Cooper, was Gloriaâs fourth husband. He died at age 50, when Anderson was 10. A decade later, in July 1988, Andersonâs older brother Carter, then 23, jumped to his death off a 14th-floor terrace in the familyâs Manhattan apartment.