How To Use Monomania In A Sentence
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Sometimes it manifests itself in the milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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James Franco has been my favorite in these films; it's obvious he's had enormous fun playing the character who goes from high school flunker to monomaniacal business mogul.
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He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
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His bellowed anti-Europe diatribes breathe the monomania that still sets the conference afire.
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Monomaniacs have trouble sounding like normal people since they only know how to say a few things over and over.
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Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
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Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine.
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He is the novel's most famous character, and an easily recognizable symbol of monomania.
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He talks of my ‘monomaniac fancy that there is nothing quaint or antique in Homer.’
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Mr. McLynn is as unsparing of the senior commanders in Burma as they were of each other: The "mentally unstable" Wingate is posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Chennault suffered from "monomania," was "essentially false" and "joined in the Chinese elite's corruption and peculation with avidity"; Chiang is described as having given his second wife a nasty venereal disease on their wedding night.
Still Forgotten
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a question whether, in the case of a woman possessed with demonomania, the lesion produced the demonomania, or the demonomania produced the lesion ....
Là-bas
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Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
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Parker displays the monomania that crucially marks off true artistry from mere dabbling.
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Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
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Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine.
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They brood over and revolve it -- the idea grows up, a horrid phantasmalian monomania; and all of a sudden, in a hundred different places, the one seed sown by the leaden types springs up into foul flowering.
Night and Morning, Volume 3
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Anne Royall 1769 – 1854 a hero of feminism… but in her day… she was “called a virago and a monomaniac” - now that such things are “normalized” we can celebrate her without a concern.
Prager on the 2010 election
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They suffer from a semi-religious monomania which distracts attention from the major issues in their field.
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In fact, the only drawback is the album's lyrical monomania.
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Peggy said ... nunatak: I believe that the issue of monomaniacalness (if that's a word) is really central to the issue of making the culture of science more welcoming to women.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Sexism and Stereotypes
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It's monomania on whatever the one story of the day is and that's from a structural standpoint.
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There are two reasons for that, not that anyone need explain an eschewal of monomania.
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Although combative in his ideas, he was the opposite of an ideological monomaniac.
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They too are often portrayed as poorly dressed, pasty-faced monomaniacs with coke-bottle glasses, who are more likely to be watching Dr Who reruns than attending the prom.
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When a small bald man, famed for his insane drive and frightening monomania in pursuit of his goals, was found floating dead in the Baltic, Chechen separatists were quick to claim responsibility, not realising that, instead of Russia's latterday tsar, they'd taken the life of one of snooker's favourite sons.
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For it is worth noting that this science, which threw him into demonomania when he hoped to stave off inevitable ruin with it, he had loved for its own sake when he was rich.
Là-bas
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In Predator 2, the bad guys - for all their monomaniacal predatory focus - are fair-minded enough to honor a human prey's victory.
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I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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To avoid the charge of monomania, the authors are careful to constrain their claims.
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Orson Welles was a child prodigy, too, and of course he developed a sort of monomania which kind of baulked his career.
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To me, it illustrates that the son is incapable of distinguishing between singleness of purpose and monomania.
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It seemed like a place that gave monomaniacs a tannoy: so little space to say so little, Facebook for an older wastrel.
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This needn't have happened if not driven by Morgan's sudden monomania and desperation to be right.
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I am not making fun of this guy - who am I to criticize this sort of monomania, after all.
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His true believers, with the steadfastness that comes from monomania, are energized by anger about the war.
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Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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Ferguson set up his retirement, cultivated outside interests, sought to escape his monomania - sought, in fact, to get bored with the struggle.
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Ancient records of this disease are frequent, and in this century Lapointe reports the history of demonomania in father, mother, three sons, and two daughters, the whole family, with the exception of one son, who was a soldier, being attacked.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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They continued free from the hallucinations for two years, when first the mother, and then gradually all the other members of the family, again became afflicted with demonomania and were again sent to the asylum, when, after a residence therein of five months, they were all sufficiently cured to return home.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal.
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His obsession verges on monomania, and he becomes ‘bewitched to her memory’.
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He's being such an immense monomaniacal divvy about Anthony that his cycle of grinning wildly or crying his eyes out keeps speeding up with every passing day.
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Ancient records of this disease are frequent, and in this century Lapointe 17.60 reports the history of demonomania in father, mother, three sons, and two daughters, the whole family, with the exception of one son, who was a soldier, being attacked.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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These priests, tempered in the fires of confessional, these judges who in that time of demonomania and murder had never heard more terrifying confessions, these prelates whom no depravity had ever astonished, made the sign of the Cross, and Jean de Malestroit rose and for very shame veiled the face of the Christ.
Là-bas
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In the present state of knowledge, however, it would be rash to say that a particular state of diseased cerebral action might not be attended with a perfect set of supposed phenomena as complex and constant in the minds of the sufferers, as those which existed among the victims of demonomania.
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The fact that she spent five years trying to find grounds for criticism takes on an aura of monomania.
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It's the familiar story of the destructive monomania of the professional activist.
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Pity the poor actors who've had to perform during the city's recent hockey monomania.
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This is just another example of contemporary political monomania in pictorial form.
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They suffer from a semi-religious monomania which distracts attention from the major issues in their field.
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Ironically enough, his foray into racing was an attempt to ease off from a life of monomania, to prepare for retirement by finding new interests.
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His interest in personal fitness borders on the monomaniacal.
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Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.