ravingly

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rav·ing

(rā′vĭng)

adj.

1. Talking or behaving irrationally; wild: a raving maniac.

2. Exciting admiration: a raving beauty.

Delirious, irrational speech.

rav′ing·ly adv.

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ravingly - in a raving manner; "raving mad"

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As is the case in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, "[t]he narrator is unreliable to the extent that she pretends to be perfectly sane and, as we come to note with shock, turns out to be ravingly mad" ("(In)Sanity" 91).

De(ar)ranged minds, mindless acts and polemical portrayal in Kleist and Canetti

Bush, and, possibly, of a majority of Florida voters as demonstrated in a recount whose results would be contemptuously cast aside by a ravingly partisan Florida State Legislature.