monomaniac
Example Sentences
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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
I mean the relationship between Rothko and his protégé, though Ken might argue that Rothko is too much a monomaniac to sustain such a human bond.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2010
Such do we usually find the enthusiastic monomaniac.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
