Though "monomaniac" was a little harsh, it wasn't all that unfair, and frankly good for you for being one. From Wordnik.com. [Rostropovich and Shostakovich, Round 2] Reference
I'd be more than happy to see a few more members of Congress with their "monomaniac" commitment to the democratic process. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
This woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
But I think I was a monomaniac on the subject of matrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
As a matrimonial monomaniac I now looked upon myself as cured. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
Hillary is a monomaniac, insanely obsessed with being president. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times: Hillary Speech Partly Driven By Ambition] Reference
I think it was just a few months ago you called me a monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Rostropovich and Shostakovich, Round 2] Reference
But I'm not a monomaniac, Nelly, and nothing's getting on my nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
Until his own life falls apart because of his monomaniac focus on Black. From Wordnik.com. [Readings & Watchings 4 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference
Had much study made of him a monomaniac babbling in a dream of absurdities?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Pepe was a monomaniac, an egomaniac, and as psychotic as a shorted computer. From Wordnik.com. [The Misplaced Battleship] Reference
The Kid was a monomaniac on the subject of revenge for the death of Tunstall. From Wordnik.com. [The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid]
Badderley, a monomaniac on mortars, who saves 3d. out of every 2d. he receives. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from France] Reference
“Oh! they have taken my letter!” cried the grovelling, groping, monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
"I shall not say anything," said the monomaniac, with a wonderful and peaceful face. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
Or he could be another carpenter — a monomaniac who wants the field all to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
I became a monomaniac there for a while, in service of my need to become a winemaker. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Cork Report:] Reference
“I shall not say anything,” said the monomaniac, with a wonderful and peaceful face. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
But like any hardwired monomaniac, Sam, of course, has to trade one fixation for another. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
You can work hard and be intensely interested in your research without being a monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
So that person had to not only be some kind of rock-nut, but he had to be a complete monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [The Chrome Borne]
I need lessons in character from that monomaniac oaf like a need new backside. dearieme says. From Wordnik.com. [[ultimate cynicism] the man has that elite gall] Reference
David Hume, the Scotchman, tried to befriend him; but the monomaniac was incapable of being befriended. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
In lieu of the friend of his youth, for whom he had hoped a brilliant future, here was a poor monomaniac!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Mr Hackman was a murderer, however he might be a monomaniac, and he was eventually hanged as he deserved. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
And it's the story of how one man can lose friends and influence when driven into a monomaniac hyperfocus. From Wordnik.com. [A Thursday Evening "What, More Whuffie?" Review: Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom] Reference
Why chose to appear as a monomaniac on this blog, when that is not so much the case in the rest of my life?. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 10/30/07] Reference
Was he an ingenious monomaniac, or a fraudulent dealer in pebbles, or has he really made diamonds as he asserted?. From Wordnik.com. [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference
To those who accused him of being a monomaniac, he was fond of giving Edward Teller's famous reply: 'That's simply not true. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost from the Grand Banks]
Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
"I know of none that seems sufficient to account for it fully, and I am therefore almost forced to regard the man as a monomaniac.". From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
I flattered myself that I was not only a reformed prisoner, but a reformed drunkard, and a thoroughly restored matrimonial monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
The man who was at the outset no more than timid, easily becomes transformed first into a misanthrope, then into a monomaniac tortured by. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
I appreciate your comments and thanks for the compliment, but "amazingly articulate" and "monomaniac" must be somewhat of a contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [Disastrous Times and The Book Lovers] Reference
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?] Reference
What can we do to stop this monomaniac ... this American dictator?. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Here he is rejuvenating the self-righteous monomaniac vigilantism of. From Wordnik.com. [CommanderBond.net] Reference
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