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

“We are a bit monomaniacal about this gentleman,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2024

An acclaimed emeritus professor at Stanford University, White combines dogged research, superior storytelling skills and a delicious sense of irony to tell the story of the likely murder of his institution’s duplicitous and monomaniacal co-founder.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

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

When a government with tens of billions of dollars to spend becomes monomaniacal, Great Things can be accomplished.

From Subjectivity by Spinrad, Norman