We have here a musical monomania: concerts seem to be the sole purpose in life of these people. From LearnThat.org.
"It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference
Another feature which set her apart was the "monomania". From Wordnik.com. [status anxiety] Reference
Wilma, temperamental and overworked, had let it become a kind of monomania with her. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
"Love is a kind of monomania," said Otto; "it may be combated: it depends merely upon our own will.". From Wordnik.com. [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference
There are grounds, however, for doubting whether Shelley was not subject to a kind of monomania upon this and similar points. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
Do I love or detest? 'etc.) which is a kind of monomania on Tolstoy's part. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Genius] Reference
Don't let her monomania cloud your judgement. gary. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Émile de Girardin's monomania was to be received in the noble. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
A hobby is the happy medium between a passion and a monomania. From Wordnik.com. [La Grand Breteche] Reference
The shadow of Rousseau's monomania will be felt thick upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Six Napoleons] Reference
But the economic monomania about inflation is not entirely simplistic. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Madrick: The Monomania of Economists] Reference
"No, it is possible she was the victim of a sort of monomania," conceded. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
His eyes have a certain twinkle that can imply mischief, mayhem or monomania. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Interview: Christopher McDonald Plays Guys You Love to Hate] Reference
I threw myself, with customary monomania, into designing the treatment program. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
The painful accuracy which makes some men such deadly bores is a form of monomania. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
Michael Wolff, is this monomania on the sniper story starting to bother you at all?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2002] Reference
For such erratic enthusiasms as this of Dr. Coles we want a milder term than monomania. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
But there's something disturbing about their monomania over taxes and government power. From Wordnik.com. [John O'Kane: Tea Party Fantasies] Reference
WOLFF: Yes, it bothers me terribly, but it's not just the monomania on the sniper story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2002] Reference
He's homicidal, he's suicidal, 'and he's suffering from what they then called monomania. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary] Reference
This monomania has a kind of clinical precision which the subject does not seem to merit. From Wordnik.com. [Food] Reference
From that moment I despaired of the Doctor and resolved to let him manage his own monomania. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
It's monomania on whatever the one story of the day is and that's from a structural standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2002] Reference
He might be the prey of some strange phantasm, some monomania; but the evidences did not show it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
His children would argue that her monomania cramped his emotions and made him overly dependent on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye'] Reference
The same monomania and hubris that made him a great researcher also helped bring about his own demise. From Wordnik.com. [Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?] Reference
Their own weak - nesses return to haunt them, just as Caesar contributes to his own death by his monomania. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Will says we are "waist deep in health care monomania," which sounds like an ideal venue for tickle fights. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
And since that day his hatred of the English had been a monomania, and he has never spoken a word of English. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Any thoughts or dreams which might lead one into that fierce monomania were, I decided, to be utterly shunned. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
To the uninitiated such devotion appears to be a species of monomania, and attributable to a desire of singularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Then came the old tempter in a new form, and my matrimonial monomania, which I hoped was cured forever, broke out afresh. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
He had his own deep, stern trains of thought, which he pursued with a passionate earnestness almost amounting to monomania. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
She had reached the border-line of monomania, yet he would have been a daring man who would have called her absolutely insane. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
There was true madness in that look, arising from the long privation, the interminable jealousy, the consequent monomania of revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
However, what is seriously wrong with the list is its monomania: Politicians are not the sole sources of a nation's success and grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Of Money And Men] Reference
So I decided that it was a sincere conviction, -- an idea, exaggerated perhaps to the borders of monomania, of the sacredness of all life. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
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