monomaniac

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Or was it describing vengeance obsessed Rudy Giuliani coached by a naive Bobby Wagner Jr. counseled by the monomaniac passions of a jilted erstwhile Parks Commissioner, Henry Stern, plotting his comeback?

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2017

Despite his fervour, anchoritic existence and frequent depiction as one-part Don Quixote, one-part Antoni Gaudí and one-part monomaniac, Gallego is very aware of how he is seen in the town and beyond.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2017

Reading Kronman’s “Confessions,” I wondered if its author would be like Mr. Casaubon, from “Middlemarch”—a pale, stooped, carrel-dwelling monomaniac who lives entirely in his mind.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2017

Chris Christie, who could theoretically be president someday, is a monomaniac.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2015

It is probable, also, that he was a religious monomaniac, for he was a pious fanatic—a Jacobinist—and in his pocket were found a copy of the New Testament, and thirty gold pieces.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland