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

The same can be said of Pabst himself, whose monomaniacal devotion to his art inclines him to ugly compromises.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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

Scripps’ motivation for sharing those hobbies and passions is clear: It sends the message that the spellers are normal kids, not robotic middle-schoolers with a monomaniacal devotion to memorizing the dictionary.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2021

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 Oemler, Marie Conway