monomaniacal
Example Sentences
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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 β Jun. 11, 2026
He pursued these goals with monomaniacal intensity: “Anything outside of that was a distraction.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 3, 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 β Jan. 13, 2023
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 β Dec. 4, 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
