monomaniacal
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And then there’s Javert—an armed agent of the state whose monomaniacal focus on bringing Valjean to “justice” ultimately destroys his life.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
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
Had he been less fanatical, less obstinate, less fixed upon his monomaniacal purpose, he would have settled a sufficient sum upon her, and gone his way.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
