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  • noun Plural form of nymphomaniac.

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Examples

  • I met Mario at a book signing recently and somehow talked him into revealing the truth behind his books, rooted in a strange combination of nuclear waste, Charlaine Harris ... and nymphomaniacs.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • I met Mario at a book signing recently and somehow talked him into revealing the truth behind his books, rooted in a strange combination of nuclear waste, Charlaine Harris ... and nymphomaniacs.

    Mario Acevedo's biting sense of humor 2010

  • The two works count among the most significant early feminist art both for their formal innovations and for their analysis, confounding, complication and outright dismissal of the myths of women as victims, heroines, goddesses, narcissists, and nymphomaniacs, while at the same time redefining the parameters of video as a non-narrative art form.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Mario Acevedo channels the undead, werewolves, alien gangsters, and nymphomaniacs for his Felix Gomez vampire-detective novels.

    MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile? 2010

  • Seems that a story about a detective vampire, nymphomaniacs, assassins, and UFOs captured my impression of the nuclear weapons industry.

    Mario Acevedo's biting sense of humor 2010

  • The two works count among the most significant early feminist art both for their formal innovations and for their analysis, confounding, complication and outright dismissal of the myths of women as victims, heroines, goddesses, narcissists, and nymphomaniacs, while at the same time redefining the parameters of video as a non-narrative art form.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Seems that a story about a detective vampire, nymphomaniacs, assassins, and UFOs captured my impression of the nuclear weapons industry.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Felix has survived Operation Iraqi Freedom, being turned into a vampire, and a ravenous horde of nymphomaniacs.

    [INTERVIEW] Mario Acevedo « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

  • So it's pickpockets, reporters, prostitutes and wards full of insane nymphomaniacs.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Terry Frost 2010

  • His female characters are certainly not nymphomaniacs, and are generally in close relationships with the people with whom they have intercourse.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

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