- In 19th-century psychiatry,
monomania (from Gr**** monos, "one", and mania,
meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of
partial insanity conceived as single...
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Monomaniac of Envy (Monomane de l’envie),: 4 also
known by the name of
Hyena of Salpêtrière,
Portrait of a
Woman Suffering from
Obsessive Envy, and Manic...
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consciousness as the novel's
central force rather than
Captain Ahab's
monomaniacal force of will. The
Biblical name
Ishmael has come to
symbolize orphans...
- high-minded
government mandates that did the GSEs wrong, but
rather the
monomaniacal focus of top
management on marketshare. With
marketshare came bonuses...
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journalist Jonathan Kay
described Chomsky as "a hard-boiled anti-American
monomaniac who
simply refuses to
believe anything that any
American leader says"...
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Michael Kimmelman wrote that "its
mirrored exterior is opaque, s****acked,
monomaniacal" and that the
building looked the same from each comp**** direction. Kimmelman...
- of the
protagonists in
Herman Melville's Moby-**** (1851). He is the
monomaniacal captain of the
whaling ship Pequod. On a
previous voyage, the
white whale...
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within days more than
thirty c****omaniacs were in motion, some so
monomaniacally that only
death would have the
power to intervene."
Troffea kept up...
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because of his
commitment to the
craft of acting." To Streep, he was "
monomaniacal",
which had an
effect on his co-stars, who were then "challenged to take...
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perceptive human beings of his generation". Some
writers describe Brown as a
monomaniacal zealot,
others as a hero. In 1931, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy...
