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
A monomaniac is generally made by dwelling for a long period upon one object with intense interest, to the exclusion of others.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
