monomania
Example Sentences
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But Schiff feels uneasy with his suspicious monomania that rejected any “peace and quiet” in governance.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
Sometime in “Joy Womack: The White Swan,” determination starts to look like monomania, even if the directors, Dina Burlis and Sergey Gavrilov, never tip their hands on where they stand.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
While whiplashing the viewing audience with her concertmaster’s monomania, she overlooks her son’s descent into evilness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
Instead of wanting to imitate Bart and Homer, young Hill began to write Simpsons screenplays, and kept at it until he was 16, a monomania seen more often in pianists and Olympians.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019
He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
