Hiring help does not solve the problems with the "monomaniacal" culture of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Sexism and Stereotypes] Reference

One thing was clear, though--I was never going to be a professor of anything if it meant that kind of monomaniacal passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The passion of Professor Piranian] Reference

Mr. GOUREVITCH: He was -- he modeled himself a lot on Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, a certain kind of monomaniacal, African strongman type.    From Wordnik.com.  [We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda] Reference

Even in the darkness, this monomaniacal genius rails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Scenes From An Execution, The Marriage of Bette and Boo] Reference

So why the monomaniacal focus on the evils of inflation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Alan Reynolds Embraces Deflation] Reference

Too fat, too shrill, too monomaniacal, say the cool men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: Seeing Sexism] Reference

A scary, scary, monster that is nothing if not monomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lauren Cahn: It's Barmitzvazilla! For the Love of God, Run for Your Lives!] Reference

When these people get an idea like LEED, they become monomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEED-ing us on (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

"I think this monomaniacal call for loyalty is unhealthy," Moore said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

But this collection was no normal one; it bordered on the monomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

Until suddenly, after two weeks of monomaniacal play, everything ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Affair] Reference

Conrad Williams' "68 07' 15" N, 31 36' 44" W" portrays monomaniacal obsession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Ships, Black Sails (and stuff)] Reference

No other story or discussion attracts such a sustained and monomaniacal response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strike 2 (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

I am sorry if I may seem monomaniacal, but I would contend it is inherent in the context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disastrous Times and The Book Lovers] Reference

First, the modern media may be more multifarious than ever, but they're also remarkably monomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Media Ignored the Nashville Flood] Reference

But we haven't found the point where he became so unrelentingly monomaniacal about a westward voyage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

Ignorance is one thing, I can handle that, but monomaniacal obsession is another situation altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [There’s ignorant and misogynistic …] Reference

Edward; Regrets but I don't do invective which is precisely what saying I have a 'monomaniacal agenda'is.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Further evidence that the man responsible for Bush's crimes has lost what's left of his monomaniacal mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dennis Perrin: Nader's Right About Online Delusion] Reference

Remember him this way, on a gloriously ramshackle, wired and monomaniacal live set from the end of the 70s.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - the punk foot of nose] Reference

Now you've got your own book and you describe yourself as an angry, tyrannical, obsessed, monomaniacal demon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2002] Reference

Assembled by Q's Ian Harrison, this is a vital sieving mechanism for all but the most monomaniacal Fall panhandler.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews] Reference

We are back to the question of narcissism-to the monomaniacal absorption in self fostered at every turn by a media culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roth, Mailer, Bellow Running Out of Gas] Reference

There are clear cracks upon the faces of the Pop Pap purveyors in their monomaniacal motive to perpetuate mass consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Weber: A New Year for We the People] Reference

Many years after the truce and after a good deal of monomaniacal preparation, Mossbauer had landed alone and armed on Kzin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Engineers]

The lack of monomaniacal passion on my part meant that I knew very early that a PhD in Chemistry was not in the cards for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The passion of Professor Piranian] Reference

When I wrote about you in my book "The Fortune Tellers" I described you as an angry, tyrannical, obsessed, monomaniacal demon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2002] Reference

Bella's feelings toward Edward take on the characteristics of a monomaniacal obsession even before she knows anything about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book/Movie Review: Twilight] Reference

Add to that the potential for nurturing a fan base for a range of sports traditionally neglected by India's monomaniacal focus on cricket.    From Wordnik.com.  [India's Gold Medal for Corruption] Reference

What I wondered was what she had seen in him: the record suggested he had been a monomaniacal nutcase who happened to have gotten it right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Its limited computer -- an artificial brain moronic and monomaniacal -- could reach no decision as to what he was and what to do about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

In one particularly nasty passage, Horton all but accuses me of succumbing to the same monomaniacal madness that afflicted poor Semmelweis.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Fool of Pest': An Exchange] Reference