monomaniacal

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But I will end here with a brief note of explanation too - it may seem either monomaniacal or simply lacking proportion to be focusing in on this one question of Palin's background to the exception of many others.

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  1. Of or pertaining to monomania; also, afflicted with monomania. Patients confess that they have been under the influence Of monomaniacal ideas and terrible hallucinations for a long period, without their existence being suspected even by their most intimate associates. F. B. Winslow, Obscure Diseases of the Brain, ix.

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  • The misty resignation is periodically sideswiped by Diaz, defiantly shrill as a woman incinerated by monomaniacal love, while the right thing to do is increasingly obvious to her husband (Jason Patric as Hunky Celt), to everyone else on-screen and to everyone in the theater. —  Houston Press | Complete Issue
  • It might help to see how impoverished and crackpot the combination of watered down atheism a la Dawkins mixed with Darwinism really is and be a bit wary before embarking on the fate long prophesied by Mary Shelley for the monomaniacal scientist. —  Darwiniana
  • Since its publication in 1851, the tale of Ahab and his doomed crew, in monomaniacal pursuit of the great leviathan, has fascinated generations of its readers. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • Weird, monomaniacal, wouldn't want to date him, but he made a good hero. —  Tomato Nation
  • It's a damned good word, and a one-word summary of this sort of monomaniacal advocacy and apology is damned handy, too. —  Shadow of the Hegemon
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