monomaniac
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There’s something compellingly off about him; he’s a milk-drinking straight arrow with a monomaniac streak that runs him afoul of department politics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
Despite his fervour, anchoritic existence and frequent depiction as one-part Don Quixote, one-part Antoni Gaudí and one-part monomaniac, Gallego is very aware of how he is seen in the town and beyond.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
Reading Kronman’s “Confessions,” I wondered if its author would be like Mr. Casaubon, from “Middlemarch”—a pale, stooped, carrel-dwelling monomaniac who lives entirely in his mind.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2017
Chris Christie, who could theoretically be president someday, is a monomaniac.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2015
Damiens was a monomaniac of the style77 of Guiteau, driven insane, or excited to this special development of insanity by the political excitement of the time.
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin
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