Rigmarole, Manic

"The smart answer is probably later, after we've gone through a lot of rigmarole" (193)

It was a rigmarole just to get the door open, it was a long, complicated process to open all the locks.


"There was a manic excitement to him now that made everything before look like snoozing" (195)

Jim Carrey had a manic excitement to him when he found out his role for the new movie.