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.
When Gary's wife, Rocky, heard that Hemingway had died, she said with tears in her eyes, They're both in the barn now.. Even more striking than the similarities about the deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper are the facts about their lives. Both set courage and loyalty to friends at the very top of their personal codes - higher perhaps than love for women.