monomaniacal

Example Sentences

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He pursued these goals with monomaniacal intensity: “Anything outside of that was a distraction.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Even his grief is smothered by his monomaniacal need for closure: “This is not about revenge,” he will tell Kadafi, pinning a campaign button on his lapel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025

Ahab’s crew, Ishmael says, “seemed to be picked and packed specifically by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniacal revenge.”

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

But it does give us a believable interpretation of Holmes: that of a monomaniacal teen-turned-woman whose financially unstable childhood and starry-eyed ambitions led to a lie that, once born, required nonstop feeding.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

And he was no madman, no victim of a monomaniacal obsession.

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert