pyromaniac
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"The pyromaniac doesn't get money, has no spirit of revenge, has no utility of the fire, but he likes the fire," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Unwittingly, “he’s a pyromaniac firefighter,” Mr. Lévrier said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
In France, responsibility for all things school falls squarely to the minister of education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, who has been ridiculed as a pompier pyromane—a pyromaniac firefighter, someone who is creating more problems than he solves.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2022
William F. Buckley once described a friendly intellectual adversary as a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2020
They thought I was a pyromaniac and a liar, and the fact that I myself never seemed to get burned was as good as proof.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
True pyromaniacs — people with an impulse disorder characterized by a compulsive need to set things on fire — do exist, but they are a rare breed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
More still are convinced that pyromaniacs who want to spark chaos are the behind most blazes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
The ban, combined with an existing prohibition on fireworks in unincorporated areas, is meant to discourage would-be pyromaniacs from accidentally laying waste to their neighbors’ houses or setting off wildfires that blacken hundreds of acres.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
In these years, largely in the service of Big Energy, he and his crew have transformed themselves into so many pyromaniacs.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2020
His anecdotes and comments as to pyromaniacs of different kinds were as entertaining and curious as anything recorded by Gaboriau.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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