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.
Sebastian County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Cooper was pronounced dead at 1:15 p.m. after undergoing several surgeries. He sustained a gunshot wound to his neck, Hollenbeck said. The 65-year-old had been employed with the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office since 2001 and was nearing retirement.