monomaniac

Example Sentences

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There’s something compellingly off about him; he’s a milk-drinking straight arrow with a monomaniac streak that runs him afoul of department politics.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 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

Louis, as I was saying, regards the man in the romantic light of a humanitarian monomaniac or a demented food reformer.

From Max Carrados by Bramah, Ernest