monomaniac
Example Sentences
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I was that bore, that monomaniac, that moralizer—an idealist.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
Chris Christie, who could theoretically be president someday, is a monomaniac.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2015
You don’t think Burial when you hear it, but weird, monomaniac soul: D’Angelo’s “Voodoo,” Stevie Wonder’s “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants,” Sly and the Family Stone’s “Fresh.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
My grandfather was a sort of puritanical monomaniac; even in the days of his mental vigour I can remember him as a sterner moralist than any of one's school-masters or college dons.
From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
