Pyromaniacal

At work in this series of destructions is the familiar, pyromaniacal frustration of a kid at odds with the world and its architected environments -- the many rooms we inhabit and are fitted into -- especially those delimiting our sexual and professional identities. ❋ Andrew Gorin (2010)

Watch Albert Trummer perform his fireball maneuver on an episode of "Real Housewives of New York City" -- which likely drew the fire marshal's attention to the pyromaniacal antics at Apotheke: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sherman defied this sense of ­military restraint almost from the ­beginning; in fact, his earliest ­pyromaniacal urges in connection with Southerners and their property seem to have developed in 1862, while he was in charge of the ­recently captured city of Memphis. ❋ Winston Groom (2009)

On the other hand, Wall-E is always the vulnerable one, and EVE has aggressive pyromaniacal tendencies which all my girl friends loved. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The check-bouncing saga moved from a General Accounting Office report to Roll Call (the local newspaper of Capitol Hill) to the conservative Washington Times to USA Today, which serves as kindling for the pyromaniacal radio talk-show hosts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If it ever warms up again I want to go camping but have someone else do all the packing and unpacking and I want to sit by the campfire and have a big fat poker stick to satisfy my pyromaniacal tendencies and if I get too stinky from the smoke I'll go jump in the lake which will be warm because the sun will have been out for months warming it up. ❋ Kelsi (2008)

All conversation ceased at the onset of this little pyromaniacal display, and he sensed himself the object of apprehensive surveillance. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)

The celebration involves a pyromaniacal lighting of a fuel cell inside the balloon. ❋ Diya Luke (2011)

Audience members can also check out a choreographed pyromaniacal show with whip-cracking, flame-eating acrobats or Bendy Em, who performs "comic contortions of epic proportions" by squeezing herself into a 16-inch box. ❋ TOM HAWTHORN (2011)

Faced with a choice between collecting on behalf of the taxpayer or keeping relations cordial with the pyromaniacal banks that burned down much of the real economy for private gain, Freddie went with the banks. ❋ Peter S. Goodman (2011)

Each future, every bridge, every effigy is eyed with pyromaniacal lust and a lighter flicked in impatience as i blaze through these copper days like so much kindling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Freaking out the squares was the easy part, taken care of with the band's notoriously messy, lewd, and pyromaniacal live shows and a string of early recordings that crashed punk rock head-on into Yoko Ono's weirdest records and a heroic quantity of LSD-for my money they've never topped 1987's brilliantly warped. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even if Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez's brand of authoritarian populism still finds a nostalgic audience in some quarters, his pyromaniacal rhetoric, militarism, and meddling have left him with only a small band of militant followers and a few more dependent clients.

Lindsey Clark, understudy for Paula Brancati, is both funny and terrifying in the role of Van's sister (Lucy), whose pyromaniacal tendencies have landed her in an asylum.

We're all [pyros],[we love] to [burn]... ❋ Where Are All The Monkeys (2004)

[Matt] is such a [pyromaniac], he [blew up] his house. ❋ Matt (2003)

That [pyro] is a [maniac]. ❋ Trombley (2003)

11 year old: "Hey look guys! I just made a FLAMETHROWER out of an Axe deodorant can and a lighter!! [haha wow] I'm such a [pyromaniac]!!!" Friends: "No, dude, you're not, you're a fag. Anybody can make a 'flamethrower' out of deodorant and a lighter. Can you make a pipe bomb? No? You haven't? Can you tell the difference between the smell of butane and [natural gas]? You can't?! Well then you're not a fucking pyro! Go home and play with your matches." ❋ Kkkraig (2009)

*In a wooden house* Person one: Hey dude, I'm a [pyromaniac] Person two: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WOODEN HOUSE Person two: Jeez, wtf. It's not like I'm going to [burn your house down] *[evil laugh]* ❋ ThisismeID (2021)

i once set my [carpet] on fire just to [watch it] burn, because i am a [pyromaniac]. ❋ Udontknowme (2003)

i set a bilding [on fire] because i like watching this [go up] [in flames] ❋ Lil Pyro (2005)

Oh My God, [That Fire] Is [Soo] Pretty, I Must Be A [Pyromaniac] ❋ Hunter616 (2008)

[Dan] is a huge pyromaniac, he set himself [on fire] and now is in the [mental asylum]. ❋ 4chan FAG (2015)

[ooh], [look at it] [burn]. ❋ Alira (2004)