| 单词 | monomania |
| 例句 | He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That's why the current satirical onslaught against politics as a whole, which amounts sometimes to monomania and increasingly to cliche, ought at the very least to be a proper subject for discussion. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z He needed a break, he said, from the monomania of Hollywood. Farewell to the Tambourine Man 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Events” bravely gives aggressive and unapologetic life to Claire’s descent into monomania. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Second, there was a fetish, disturbing in its monomania and environmental impact, for art on a gargantuan scale, art that may be read from an airplane or a satellite. A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z If monomania was the worst side-effect, then so be it: the drugs might put me back to where I was before I became ill. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z A similar monomania is back for this latest boom in Black screen expression. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Over three seasons and many dips into love sickness, monomania and manic depression, Carrie was always an ambitious, dedicated intelligence officer. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z It informs the brilliance of Thomson's characterisation, from the morbid monomania of a tormented Cosimo, to the brutish, coiled savagery of the Dominican enforcer Stufa, to the ghostly sadness of a neglected child. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z Still, they hold onto it with the poisoned, proprietary monomania of Gollum with his precious piece of jewelry in “The Lord of the Rings.” Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Those gilded levels of monomania don't usually withstand the transition from shared rented accommodation. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z Some of her points are tongue-in-cheek — “When in doubt spray-paint it gold” — while others are universal: “Fight monomania,” and “Wake up early, fear death.” Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z In larger paintings, though, the sexual monomania transcends itself and flips over into an enthralling, almost innocent exuberance. TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z With his acute sensitivity and artistic monomania, this fledgling writer who will perish before he's published but not before his talent is recognized represents more than just the potential poetry that was lost. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But Schiff feels uneasy with his suspicious monomania that rejected any “peace and quiet” in governance. Review | Should we celebrate Samuel Adams, or condemn him? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z His state senate Republican colleagues, weary of his hair-on-fire approach to advocating his monomania, removed him as chair of the pertinent committee. Opinion | Why Mastriano’s candidacy presents a special danger to the nation 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z But it also has something to do with the 59-year-old Cruise’s close stewardship of his own superhuman image, a commitment that speaks to his talent as well as his monomania. Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick' 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Money plus monomania can make a guy crazy. Opinion | Putin is reading from Stalin’s playbook. Here’s how the West should handle him. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Raskin, of the Duke University School of Law, has different monomania: “climate risk” threatening the financial system. Opinion | Biden proposes saddling an already struggling Federal Reserve with two political activists 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The 1619 Project, which might already be embedded in school curricula near you, reinforces the racial monomania of those progressives who argue that the nation was founded on, and remains saturated by, “systemic racism.” Opinion | The malicious, historically illiterate 1619 Project keeps rolling on 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He wakes up every day thinking about the perfect videos, with an exactitude that borders on monomania. The North Carolina kid who cracked YouTube’s secret code 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z And with the arguable exception of “Mission: Impossible’s” Ethan Hunt, few Cruise characters have felt as aligned with that monomania as Maverick. Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick' 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It was Trump’s monomania that dictated the path of denial and inaction. Opinion | Trump is engaging in U.S. history’s deadliest-ever sulk 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z One of the chief impediments to me listening to it all, and something I have to actively fight against every day, is a natural tendency to musical monomania. 'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z After three years of Brexit monomania many in Lisburn on Saturday preferred to watch rugby and football – anything, in fact – rather than proceedings in the House of Commons. Weary unionists fear Johnson’s Brexit deal will strike at heart of their identity 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Instead of wanting to imitate Bart and Homer, young Hill began to write Simpsons screenplays, and kept at it until he was 16, a monomania seen more often in pianists and Olympians. Jonah Hill: ‘I am serious. If I deny that I’ll go crazy’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z It is quite likely that the historic paranoia about labor organizing in the U.S. is the underlying driverfor this monomania. General Motors is proof to the world that slashing wages isn’t the ticket to profitability 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z According to him, Jihadist Salafism combined “respect for the sacred texts in their most literal form . . . with an absolute monomania for jihad, whose primary target was America, perceived as the greatest enemy of the faith.” Inside the Saudi terror machine: Understanding Wahhabism and Salafism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Despite its monomania, it still couldn’t display an entire Tweet in on a single screen. From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: visit the Museum of Failure 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z These are unlikely but true, twistily manipulative stories that follow adventurers, con artists, pseudoscientists and fabulists, generally consumed by some kind of obsession The monomania of a Grann character is often contagious. With 'Lost City of Z' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' David Grann is a hot literary property 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Her solution was grand, in ways that could sound like monomania: she urged on Americans “a new politics of meaning,” a “new ethos of individual responsibility and caring,” a “new definition of civil society.” Hillary Clinton’s Patriotism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Sanders seems possessed by an ideological monomania—part of his charm, such as it is—and has no evident interest in Mrs. Clinton’s improper conduct. Vegas Comedy Show 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But on this day, Aug. 27, in 1859, Drake’s monomania paid off. How the American Oil Industry Got Its Start 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z To say that there is also a monomania to the film is, if anything, an understatement. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ review: Baby, it was born to run 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In the current global environment, this starts to shape up as monomania. Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The other aspect of fly-fishing that inspires monomania is casting. In fly tying, it’s the art for the sake of art 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z And amongst all of this was a ponytail – silly, yes, but given the monogrammed monomania than succeeded it, perhaps not that silly after all. The Joy of Six: Roger Federer to Phil Tufnell - ponytailed sportsmen 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The term ‘monomania’ was first coined by French psychiatrist Jean-Etienne Esquirol, and it was an exclusively nineteenth century term referring to a person who was outwardly well, but harboured one obsessive fixation. A Brief History of Mental Illness In Art 2013-05-23T14:15:06.930Z But it doesn't matter; the company's monomania, it's collective passion is undeniable. Could iWatch be the next Apple TV? 2013-02-18T14:25:09Z Cubical Scaffolding Wise became “crazy excited” about cubulating shapes, he said, but at first his mathematical friends just laughed at his monomania. Getting into Shapes: From Hyperbolic Geometry to Cube Complexes 2012-12-26T17:45:00.337Z There was but little attention paid to the peculiar forms of monomania, or to its treatment, beyond restraint and often cruelty. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The young officer glanced upon the trembling maiden about to be offered on the altar of her father's unconquerable monomania, with an admiring eye. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z His son had hardly attained the same age when he was attacked with the same monomania, and made two attempts at suicide. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Monomania and melancholia have been in a great number of instances traced to generative succession—sometimes, especially suicidal monomania, through four or five generations. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Among the negro slaves in the West Indies it is scarcely known, and during three years’ residence in the Bahamas, only one case of monomania fell under my observation. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The old term for paranoia employed for a long time was monomania, a word coined by Esquirol at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The supposition of monomania most charitably explains the indulgence in habits so disgusting as those well-known to have characterized the distinguished savant ——, who died recently at Paris. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Was Clovis mad--victim of a monomania--or did she wrong him? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z His mind had already become filled with a generous but cruel determination, which grew rapidly into monomania. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z These subjects are prone to various monomanias; uncertain, fickle, and oftentimes capriciously cruel. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It is for this reason that these conditions were sometimes called monomanias, as if patients were really disturbed only on one point. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Crawford, in his most excellent descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands, speaking of "running a muck," pretends it results frequently from a monomania taking this particular form, and originating in disorders of the digestive organs. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z He used to describe himself as a “person of gloomy insignificance and unsocial monomania.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z He adores Rome even as he recoils from the cruelty, the arrogance and the monomania that made it what it is. Rome Specialized in Vulgarity, Excess Before Berlusconi: Books 2011-11-29T00:54:30Z Any fixity of idea may be considered as a monomania. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The word monomania has been an unfortunate one for scientific psychiatry, because it has been abused to shield criminals. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z In her acting, as well as in her singing, we see nothing of the woman; only the abnormal manifestations of the subject of a monomania. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Persons labouring under a monomania, such as absorbs their whole mind into one prevailing idea, are never pleasant or impressive talkers. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z The fact is, Mr. Dole belonged to a portion of the sect of Anabaptists called "Calvinist Baptists," and the extreme Calvinistic feature of his Creed had become with him quite a monomania. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z The insistence on this brutal "sport" among the Andalusians has taken the form of acute monomania. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z It may be noted that when Lucy Snowe is seeking wildly the letter, which has been stolen away from her, she accuses herself of monomania. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z The absurdity had merged at length into a perfect monomania, which deserved no mercy, for it had nearly made his poor wife thoroughly unhappy. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z It being the last day that the library was to be on view before the sale, fashion and monomania rubbed elbows in the Heikem Galleries, crowding the well known salons morning and afternoon. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Be this last as it may—and I commend it to those who believe in genius as a form of monomania—it is quite certain that genius has nothing in common with machinery. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z His dislike to all things American—in consequence of the claims, now more loudly proclaimed than ever, of the Baskettes from the States—grew to be almost a monomania. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Yet Nelly Dean does say of Heathcliff's love for Catherine: 'He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z For some of us, fly fishing is an obsessive sport that drives the afflicted to bouts of monomania. Big snows leave Montana rivers swollen, but the fishing?s still great 2011-08-03T19:29:46Z She was a strong-minded, self-willed woman, with one idea—one monomania—love for 'Old Virginia,' and especially for her own portion of the soil. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Her continual harping upon the same idea troubled me from the beginning,--it was like monomania,--always her death and a terrible eternity ensuing upon it. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Insanity produces, oftentimes, ill-feelings towards the best friends, and particularly the family, or those more nearly related to the insane person—but not so with monomania. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z There is evidence that when the sisters wrote their novels they had already attributed monomania to Branwell, and could thus explain his history for themselves. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z The thought has become a monomania with me. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z The wizened face grew grave, but only as the screen darkens between the pictures; next instant it was alight with the ineffable joy of gratified monomania. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z It is a species of monomania which distorts even the very clearest vision. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z That is, it stimulated his monomania into exercise, by determining to annihilate or crush the victim in whose mental and moral magnetism he felt so uneasy and dissatisfied with himself. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z They became aware that he suffered from monomania touching the object of his sorrow, and the circumstance impressed them exceedingly. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z The hurry to have the ceremony irrevocably over had grown to be something very like a monomania with her. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z His hatred of the “bourgeois” began in his childhood, and developed into a kind of monomania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z His approach to his work goes beyond obsession — to a monomania that influences every facet of his life, in which gathering information trumps all else. The (Ex) of the Village 2011-02-25T19:24:01Z It in fact represents a form of monomania connected with a certain idea. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It is not too much to say that Lord Roberts and Homer Lea were felt to have an ugly monomania. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Bret Harte had almost a monomania for not answering letters; and his absence from Glasgow could not safely be inferred from his failure to acknowledge communications addressed to him there. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Magazine "The Social Network" gets much of it wrong--but it captures the monomania and paranoia of a start-up. Where Are Facebook?s Employees? At the Movies 2010-10-01T23:04:00Z A seeing blindness, then, is this specialism; a monomania too, but, of course, conventional and respectable. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker I asked the baron that question directly afterwards; for between ourselves, the prince didn't seem to me exactly in his right mind, and I thought it wrong to profit by a monomania. The Children of the World I did not know exactly what to make of this strange monomania. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I The hurry to have the ceremony irrevocably over had grown to be something very like monomania with her. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir He menaces the success of any enterprise to which his quixotic mind turns, because it instantly becomes a fixed idea with him—an obsession, a monomania!” The Moonlit Way The habit of composing became in the 14th century, as has been said, no longer an art but a monomania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" All his thoughts were concentrated on this point; he was hurrying towards depression and monomania. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Partial derangement or monomania will not have that effect unless the mania relates to the agency, or destroys the agent's ability to perform it. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman Of a truth it could be nothing less than a mania—a grim and terrible monomania. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising The ornaments are remarkable for the exquisite beauty of their design, and are uninjured, excepting by the eternal whitewash, the monomania of modern Spanish decorators. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Going down a stair-case, I saw through a glass door a poor creature suffering from suicidal monomania; night and day she had to be watched, and such had been the case for years. The Night Side of London It is also used as a slang expression, American in origin, for a harmless 375 lunatic, or a faddist, whose enthusiasm for some one idea or hobby becomes a monomania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I should urge him to spend the winter," said George serenely, "and what's the difference between having a monomania and being crazy? Old Friends and New For all his monomania on this business of mnemonics, he was a red-blooded boy with active glands and youthful corpuscles. The Mind Digger At least I'm a Soldier and sometimes assigned to future operations—though why we should have this monomania about our future personalities back there, I don't know. The Big Time My dear madam, this is a morbid whimsicality that trenches closely upon monomania, and would be more tolerable in a lackadaisical school-girl, than in a mature, intelligent, and gifted woman. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The strange persistence of these fourteen martyrs might seem to point to monomania or a series of romantic passions; gin is the more likely key. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) It might perhaps have excited a monomania among liberated convicts—colored and exaggerated as every incident would have been for the amusement of the public—to attempt similar exploits. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Business then took Sanquhar again to France, but on his return the brooding revenge, now grown to a monomania, once more burst into a flame. Old and New London Volume I So great was his monomania for benevolence that it could not at all confine itself to the streets of Boston, the circle of his relatives, or even the United States of America. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Dupe of my own morbid imagination, I should stand convicted of monomania in the eyes of any reasonable being who should see my actions. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that the heresy of race should have become a fixed idea, a monomania, in the German Empire. German Problems and Personalities Birkenshead's love of beauty was a hungry monomania; his brain was filled with memories of the pictures of the Ideal Mother and her Son. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 He never allowed any allusion to the circumstance without the most comical expressions of regret for this, as he called it, curious form of monomania. Records of Later Life It was his monomania; on all ordinary subjects he was sensible enough, and fain was she to engage him in ordinary topics. Shirley He was animated by a convulsive energy, a volcanic outburst characteristic of the obsession of monomania. Wild Oranges It was true Grantley Mellen had met with a humiliating disappointment in his early youth, which had embittered all his after years, and increased the natural jealousy of a reticent disposition almost to a monomania. A Noble Woman It bore no resemblance to ordinary crimes and was clearly a case of monomania with hallucinations. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso According to our view of these lingering scenes of rancorous persecution, Philip gradually habituated himself to gloat over the sufferings of Perez with the morbid rapture of monomania. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The old lady had been so long without an198 object of affection, that her love of this girl became almost a monomania. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals His malady grew in proportion with their efforts to heal it, until it took the form of monomania. Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. Pancho is slightly crazed, and his monomania consists in the belief that he is not a beggar, but a benefactor to his country. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba Even in Germany, where hatred of all that is English has become a monomania, exception is made in his favour. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 Ay, and worse— The lady, all at once grown lunatic, In suicidal monomania vowed, To save her soul, she needs must starve herself! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Was it vision, or monomania, or nervous delusion, all influenced by foregone conclusion? or was it, as the mesmerists seem to hold, an instance of clairvoyance in a high degree? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 You can judge for yourself whether this is a case of monomania—whether a person thus distinguished, could be guilty of intentional purloining. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 Daddy says little, but it is becoming a monomania with him––the dread. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation He has, say the doctors, homicidal monomania, and it is monstrous to call in the hangman when you ought to be sending for the doctor. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice By a sad association of ideas, he referred everything to his monomania, and a human existence seemed to have departed from him, to give place to the extra-natural existence of the intermediate powers. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories He was seized with that amiable form of social monomania, called "love at first sight." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 A slow ferocity burned within him; embers of a rage which no brooding ever quenched slumbered red in his brain until his endless meditation became a monomania. The Dark Star Sometimes the reader receives the impression that an egregious vanity, an eccentric ambition, and perhaps a little touch of monomania, would complete the picture, and sufficiently explain that conduct, of a hero of socialism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 By what was variously termed an obliquity of the will, an eccentricity, a monomania, he had decided that none of his children should marry, and on this point he demanded "passive obedience." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The search gave me a touch of monomania. The Art of Disappearing And now suppose we are face to face with a crime committed without any motive, as a result of some morbid impulse, a by no means uncommon occurrence, monomania or temporary insanity? Fantômas The desire to rid himself of Moumouth became a fixed idea with him, a passion, a monomania; he dreamed of it day and night. The Story of a Cat She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon, and night; it was almost a monomania. Bird of Paradise He knew that he would brood over what he had done till it attained the proportions of a monomania; his conscience would never give him peace. The Hero But his hatred grew till it was a monomania. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands If I could only have a craze," she thought hopelessly, "some harmless monomania which would fill my mind! Vixen, Volume III. "She had a monomania on the subject," said Ware uneasily. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story The monomania of the haunted man gripped him and would not release him. Tongues of Conscience Thistle Butterfly Western White To omit all mention of the butterflies seen on this trip would be proof of avian monomania with a vengeance. Birds of the Rockies By this he meant magical power, to which he had himself some vague pretensions, or which, at least, he had studied and reflected upon till it had become with him a kind of monomania. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. His admiration for clothes that fit amounts to a monomania. Vagabondia 1884 When Clifford, who had a monomania for the medical profession, announced his intention to go to Germany and pursue his studies there, the first trouble came. The Diamond Coterie The enormous fortune he had accumulated during his long and successful career as a fashionable portrait-painter, enabled him largely to indulge this infernal monomania. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 The thought grew to be a passion, and almost a monomania. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Evidently he took the death of his wife very hard, and it has added to his natural tendency towards a sort of spiritual monomania. The Tyranny of the Dark Dr. Melton labored in heartsick pity to remove her fixed idea, which soon became a monomania, that she alone was to blame for the Judge’s death. The Squirrel-Cage Others, not given to such refinements, would explain the phenomenon upon more ordinary principles, and reduce the enigma to a case merely of literary monomania. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 At last his monomania—for such it must surely have been—aggravated by regret and chagrin, became insanity, and in a frightful paroxysm the unhappy maniac committed suicide. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 He hasn't forged, or coined, or murdered, or sold himself to Pluto-Pan Satan so far as I know; and he is too clear-headed and sane to have a monomania about a non-existent trouble. The Bishop's Secret There was true madness in that look, arising from the long privation, the interminable jealousy, the consequent monomania of revenge. Sacrifice It is more like a monomania than anything we have had yet. Paul Patoff He had his own deep, stern trains of thought, which he pursued with a passionate earnestness almost amounting to monomania. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 There have been exceptional cases where parents have had a monomania in regard to their sons and daughters, demanding their celibacy or forbidding relations every way right. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Society has been said to have at all times the same want—namely, of one sane man, with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 She had reached the border-line of monomania, yet he would have been a daring man who would have called her absolutely insane. The Grell Mystery It was odd that a man whose suspicions of the country which was to her so dear almost amounted to a monomania, should have become her friend. Good Old Anna To the uninitiated such devotion appears to be a species of monomania, and attributable to a desire of singularity. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Who is he? is the question, asked with intenser interest, until the subject has become a monomania. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony "No, it is possible she was the victim of a sort of monomania," conceded Anstice. Afterwards Nature, being determined to be well served in this direction, has supplied the necessary monomania, and the domestic idea, as you call it, grows up round this central fact.” The Daughters of Danaus I understand that this becomes a monomania with a woman who lives in a rented house. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice The things that had festered in the unclean soreness of his brain had tinctured every thought with their poison of monomania, leaving him without a suspicion of his own miserable deceit. The Tyranny of Weakness "But how do you know that you have not already shot the king of the geese?" said La Salle, anxious to investigate the peculiar monomania of this poor lunatic; for such, indeed, he evidently was. Adrift in the Ice-Fields Indeed, insanity seems sometimes to find a vent in monomania, actually improving all the faculties on all other points. Rattlin the Reefer He wreaked his revenge upon his colleagues, and towards Franklin he cherished an envious hatred which developed into a monomania. Benjamin Franklin You really have a great deal to answer for, in encouraging this kind of monomania.' 'That Very Mab' But step by step, too, was growing the development of his own condition toward madness, the more grewsomely terrible because its monomania gave no outward indication. The Tyranny of Weakness Scientific research, that is, revealed itself to contemporaries as a childish and absurd monomania, unworthy of a man of sense. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Victor Hugo gave him this title; but the hatred of Hugo to Napoleon was monomania. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 A doctor was called, and gave the best verdict of monomania that ever sent a man to Charenton. The Man With The Broken Ear The coming to the fulfillment of single aloneness, through love, is made impossible for us by the ideal, the monomania of more love. Fantasia of the Unconscious His mendacity in short amounts to a monomania. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Mr. Smith, of Virginia, said that the House had lately given Mr. Adams leave to defend himself against the charge of monomania, and asked whether he was doing so. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series She looked at him darkly, as if the saner powers of her mind were struggling to understand; but in a minute the monomania had again possession of her. The Mermaid A Love Tale Her devotion to those brothers was of course splendid, yet I now think that Wilma, temperamental and overworked, had let it become a kind of monomania with her. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's How far these plots were real, and how far they sprang from monomania it is impossible to say. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study Our sympathies are to be excited by making the sacrifice as complete, and the emotion which prompts it as overpowering, as possible; until at last the love of children becomes a monomania. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) When asked why all his love adventures ended so disastrously, he replied: “Doctor, all my life I have been suffering from a ‘superaltruistic monomania to help girls in distress,’ and that is how I’m repaid.” Studies in Forensic Psychiatry In private life he has few peculiarities, except a tendency to engage in each and every game of chance, and a perfect monomania for waltzing. Sword and Gown A Novel But in his monomania he went just that step too far, and has exchanged thereby the upper hand. Foe-Farrell The poor patients were whipped or otherwise tormented for alluding to the subject of their monomania. The Age of the Reformation No doubt she was mentally deranged, and her special craze was religious monomania. Dr. Dumany's Wife In another person, whom with maddening jealousy I suspect of being some inches taller than I am, I believe I notice the same tendency towards monomania. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Perhaps it was a monomania; let us hope so. Sword and Gown A Novel Even if he is now, or was then, a monomaniac, can the deed in question be traceable to his monomania as to its real cause? Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence But this hobby of his amounted to monomania: when he came home at night without bringing a musty quarto with him, he would repeat the saying of Titus, "I have lost a day." Bohemians of the Latin Quarter In Part I, Chapter V, "religous monomania" has been changed to "religious monomania". Dr. Dumany's Wife The termination of such cases is in suicidal monomania, delusional insanity, etc. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. When the disease is fully developed under the particular form of monomania, the recollection of the former normal self commonly disappears altogether, or fades away into a dim image of some perfectly separate personality. Illusions A Psychological Study But then you must be very careful not to confound monomania with eccentricity. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence It had seemed to her that it was a monomania with him. Pieces of Eight Could the unbridled thirst for revenge have dragged her on into a monomania that would finally have ended in downright madness? Infelice From henceforth a mild insanity takes possession of the woman's mind—a species of dumb monomania which is only observable when her fixed idea happens to be touched upon. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul "That idea has since then developed into a monomania." The House of the Vampire To that extent I believe he is crazy: a sort of monomania. The Killer There are many circumstances in the conduct of this unfortunate man, amounting to that perversion of common sense which, in our times, is fashionably and foolishly almost sanctioned as monomania. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Mr. Kenyon says broadly that it is monomania—neither more nor less. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The obstinacy of this self-willed egotist was surely growing into a monomania, and perhaps it would have been more dangerous to oppose him than to comply with his whim. For Woman's Love His was a case of monomania; he imagined himself a gridiron, on which all heretics were to be roasted. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Her cherished sorrow grew morbid; her hopeless hope became a monomania; her life narrowed down to one mournful routine. Ishmael Or, In the Depths Leading a solitary and narrow life, you allowed it to develop into a species of monomania. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Yes, I think I am," Macleod said, laughing; "but it is a very pleasant sort of monomania, and I am not anxious to become sane. Macleod of Dare Be this as it may, the constitutional ferocity of the race appeared as monomania in Giovanni, and its constitutional timidity as something akin to madness in his brother. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots For it cannot have escaped observation, that on all subjects but one Holden exercised an ordinary degree of judgment, a circumstance by no means singular in the case of persons affected with monomania. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times He was also ever patient about my monomania of trying to prove that women possess both wit and humour. Memories and Anecdotes His earnest opposition assumed at times the phases of monomania. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "Anything," the major confessed, frankly, "to rouse you out of your monomania, because I don't want to have my throat cut by a lunatic some night up at Castle Dare." Macleod of Dare It is not his toil, but his hobby, passion, vice, monomania—any vituperative epithet you like to bestow on it! Your United States Impressions of a first visit M. Dumas has not escaped the national monomania. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 They were the hot, passionate eyes of a man obsessed, of a man possessed of a monomania. The Man in the Twilight The obstinacy of the King, which, indeed, almost amounted to a monomania, was the principal cause. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Macleod," said the gallant soldier, as the two friends walked leisurely down towards the Thames, "if you let this monomania get such a hold of you, do you know how it will end? Macleod of Dare "No, it was not monomania," Mrs. Montague cried, as she started up with sudden anger and defiance; "it was absolute need." True Love's Reward And, too, the literary discussions which he loved were out of the question with these addlepates who monologued indefatigably on the subject of their monomania and their ego. Là-bas Not caring a straw for the privilege of wearing a crown himself, his belief in the divine right of kings, and the obligation to defend it, amounted to monomania. The Liberation of Italy So far did the Bible craze go, that it almost amounted to a monomania. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Byron had one pre-eminent fault,—a fault which must be considered as deeply criminal by everyone who does not, as I do, believe it to have resulted from monomania. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time He seemed uplifted, translated—like one in whom the very article of a life-long faith, or monomania, is about to be justified. At a Winter's Fire She liked looking at him; she liked his young naïveté and monomania; she liked his face and all his gestures, and the poise and movement of his young body. The Tree of Heaven And soon the king unconcernedly gazed; his monomania having departed as a dream. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I They are at worst mere monomanias, in which everything is neglected that one thing may be exaggerated. The New Jerusalem As Lady Byron is not stated by her warm admirers to have had any monomania for speaking untruths on any subject, we rank her value as a witness at a higher rate than Lord Byron’s. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Then arose upon me the remembrance of the misery that had fallen upon Winnie and myself from his monomania and what seemed to me his superstitious folly, and I could not withhold an angry scowl. Aylwin Antonyms: sane, rational. insane asylum. bedlam, bethlehem, madhouse, retreat. insanity, n. dementia, alienation of mind, madness, lunacy, craziness, derangement, frenzy, delirium, mania, hallucination, aberration of mind, bedlamism; paranoia, monomania. Putnam's Word Book Hard as he was, he had neither the pseudo-religious monomania of his father, nor the callous brutality of Burt, and he shuddered at the thought of what was to come. The Firm of Girdlestone To me my father-in-law and his brother were a pair of clever cranks who had talked one another into a fixed idea which had become a monomania with them. Back to Methuselah General Peppé is liked by all who know him, though all lament the monomania that has gained such an ascendency over his mind. The Idler in France Evidently his monomania only rose up to a passionate expression when fanned into sudden flame by talking about the cross. Aylwin In his heart he thought that the fear of war with her great neighbor had become a monomania with the French. The Purple Heights I could but conclude that the man was either insane, premeditated treachery to his troops, or perhaps that his grossly intemperate habits long continued had produced idiocy or monomania. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War But for this unfortunate monomania, the Queen has not a better subject, London has not a worthier citizen than the plain spoken, simple-hearted Robert Thompson. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 Although liberty appears to be with him a monomania, the warmth with which he advocates it in conversation never urges him beyond the bounds of good breeding. The Idler in France To finish with simplisme or naturalism, let us say that, carried to its utmost extreme, it becomes a fixed idea, a monomania; has not impressionalism attained to this even in the choice of colors? Delsarte System of Oratory He was still as determined as ever to marry Ida, more determined if possible, for from constant brooding on the matter he had arrived at a condition approaching monomania. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life The painful accuracy which makes some men such deadly bores is a form of monomania. From a Girl's Point of View He was sleepless, excitable, and possessed by the monomania of persecution. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II So I decided that it was a sincere conviction,—an idea, exaggerated perhaps to the borders of monomania, of the sacredness of all life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 The militarist monomania of Germany will have become incomprehensible; her Welt Politik literature incredible and unreadable.... What is Coming? We were not long before we had a few specimens of his monomania, for the doctor, like his pupil, spoke very good French. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent But monomanias need no foundation in fact—" He broke off abruptly to say: "Is this all another proof of your diabolical cleverness? The Bent Twig From that moment I despaired of the Doctor and resolved to let him manage his own monomania. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Dr. Grummidge stated to the section a most interesting case of monomania, and described the course of treatment he had pursued with perfect success. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine. Wuthering Heights I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine. David Copperfield He had no thought of gain—only the achievement of a purpose, a monomania. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Dickson describes a man of sixty-two, suffering from monomania, who refused food for four months, but made a successful recovery. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The hunt had become a monomania with him. The Cruise of the Jasper B. It seemed almost like a monomania to be tracing back everything strange that happened, everything unexpected that was said, always to the same hidden source and the same sinister influence. The Woman in White Some people have a monomania for one thing and some for another. The Shuttle But at other times he had said to himself—with a shivering soul cowering within him—that this was only part of it all and was a beginning, perhaps, of religious monomania. The Dawn of a To-morrow In some cases the antipathy or the idiosyncrasy develops to such an extent as to be in itself a species of monomania. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Now, broken and adrift, they clutch at some rigid notion or idea, a "truth" which turns out to bear the stamp of monomania, leaving them helplessly sputtering, desperate to speak out but unable to. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Very likely this fancy springs from an enthusiastic pride which may have turned to delirium; but it will be admitted at least that I have plenty of company, and that my madness is not monomania. What is Property? He began to see red when he heard of or saw lightness in a married woman, and the outside world frequently said that this characteristic bordered on monomania. The Shuttle He thought of it constantly, so that it became a monomania. Of Human Bondage Mrs. Light, having failed to make her own fortune in matrimony, has transferred her hopes to her daughter, and nursed them till they have become a kind of monomania. Roderick Hudson And now the planet which I had disobeyed for another avenges itself,--seeing, naturally, in strange results, whose methods are untraceable, nothing but monomania. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 All day long she sat brooding—and only Esther Mawson, now for some time in her full confidence, knew that her brooding was rapidly developing into a monomania. The Talleyrand Maxim He tried every means his heart dictated, from humble supplications to friendly threats; but he could gain nothing—a sort of frenzy had come over the captain, an absolute monomania about the Pole. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras For such erratic enthusiasms as this of Dr. Coles we want a milder term than monomania. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Was he induced to throw himself into the midst of events by one of the monomanias which are engendered by periods of storm and revolution? Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places There are grounds, however, for doubting whether Shelley was not subject to a kind of monomania upon this and similar points. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare He might be the prey of some strange phantasm, some monomania; but the evidences did not show it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 But he is unfortunately afflicted with a hatred toward the Americans that amounts to a monomania. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Are you going mad, Mr. Audley, and do you select me as the victim of your monomania? Lady Audley's Secret Nor can we tax this aversion to a salaried ministry, with being a monomania of sect. Milton The idea of his guilt has become a sort of monomania with her, and nothing save the most clear and convincing proof of his innocence would have any effect upon her mind. Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots The strange scene of the foregoing evening came into my mind, and I began to understand this singular—case of monomania. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches And he had learnt to cherish this fancy till it had become a little monomania. The Woman with the Fan He looks at a common event with a vision that is diseased, and he distorts it into a gloomy horror engendered of his own monomania. Lady Audley's Secret It had been converted by perpetual disappointment into a monomania, and Caesar had become to him the incarnation of every quality and every principle which he most abhorred. Caesar: a Sketch "These predictions of the end of the world are a mania, a monomania, which recurs at regular intervals of the world's history," said one. The Christian A Story Probably it was neither, but an eccentricity, an almost monomania, that has grown upon him,—perhaps the result of strong religious excitement. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 It must be some strange monomania or hallucination. The Mystery of Cloomber As the waters of a tideless pool putrefy by reason of their stagnation, the mind becomes turbid and corrupt through lack of action; and the perpetual reflection upon one subject resolves itself into monomania. Lady Audley's Secret She was a rather eccentric woman, of feeble mentality and incredibly subject to impulses that amounted to monomania. The Eight Strokes of the Clock It became with him, during the weeks before its appearance, a monomania. Fortitude "Love is a kind of monomania," said Otto; "it may be combated: it depends merely upon our own will." O. T. a Danish Romance "Would my father's monomania account for the fact of my brother's hair turning grey and my mother wasting away to a mere shadow?" The Mystery of Cloomber "It is no fault of mine if my husband's nephew goes mad, and chooses me for the victim of his monomania." Lady Audley's Secret "There are undoubtedly many of them," said I. "The lines of monomania all lead to madness," he continued. The Master of Silence A Romance The truth is, too much interests me; an artist ought to be the victim of a monomania. Linda Condon How dangerous is the clever brain with a monomania in it! The Land of Midian — Volume 1 I watched the progress of this monomania with painful interest, for among all the Anarchists there was no individual for whom I entertained a more genuine regard than for Giannoli. A Girl Among the Anarchists And since that day his hatred of the English had been a monomania, and he has never spoken a word of English. The Sheik In these men, the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Then, too, by degrees, but all too soon, it became manifest that the memory of his passionate attachment for her mother possessed Victor to the point of monomania. Red Masquerade The idea became a monomania with Jefferson from which he never recovered till his death, more than thirty years afterward. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established Probably, had he thought a little more of his personal happiness, he would have avoided falling a victim to monomania, for such he is in part. A Girl Among the Anarchists The increasing vehemence of Captain Len Guy warned me of the necessity of treating his monomania with respect, and accepting all he said without discussion. An Antarctic Mystery To drag something out of a man with inflexibility, monomania and moral grappling-irons, and then not like it! The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations For twenty-four hours we did not taste water, the sun parched our brains, the mirage mocked us at every turn, and the effect was a species of monomania. First Footsteps in East Africa Men—he returned to the Eastlake streets on Saturday night—except those lost in the monomania of a dream, didn't want to work, they didn't even wish to be virtuous. Cytherea The influence of such a concentrated mind warped almost to the point of monomania, upon a child like Mara, predisposed from birth to share in a similar spirit, can be readily estimated. The Earth Trembled Yet so ingrained by long development was his faculty of acquisition, that it far passed the line of a passion and became a monomania. Great Fortunes from Railroads "It is part of his monomania that he can persuade himself that they are little more." The Head of the House of Coombe Society has, at all times, the same want, namely, of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to held up each object of monomania in its right relation. Representative Men It's a disease, I tell you—a monomania like any other monomania. Out of the Primitive My dear Mrs. Clifford, this prejudice of yours, besides being totally unfounded, amounts to monomania. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story So the Colonel went, and Morris, more and more possessed by his monomania, was glad that he had gone. Stella Fregelius Mr. Calvert, too, had his touch of hypochondria in consequence of his increased loneliness, and Ned Hinkley's fighting monomania underwent startling increase; but, with the rest, the wheel went on without much sensible difference. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky All day long, and every day, in his dealings with the outer world, he kept down his monomania. Michael's Crag Had they been accused of monomania they would have smiled the smile of people confident in their commonsense and their mental balance. The Old Wives' Tale Hostility to me seemed really to have been a sort of monomania with him from the first. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story There is another class of incendiary fires which arise from a species of monomania in boys and girls. Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855 The idea of succeeding in life, of seeing all her family attain to fortune, had become a form of monomania with Felicite. The Fortune of the Rougons A private bar is as eternal as the hills, as changeless as the monomania of a madman, as mysterious as sorcery. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns His condition then was undoubtedly not far removed from monomania. The Old Wives' Tale He spoke of them ironically, for he was not possessed of the secession monomania. Manuel Pereira Then came the old tempter in a new form, and my matrimonial monomania, which I hoped was cured forever, broke out afresh. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story For I am a victim of a very remarkable monomania. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green It is of course a species of local insanity and monomania, but it does not imply any general obscuration of faculties at all. Where No Fear Was She was as happy as a woman suffering from a recent amputation can be; and compared with the long nightmare created by Samuel's monomania and illness, her existence seemed to be now a beneficent calm. The Old Wives' Tale Happy lily, never to be saddled with an idee fixe, never to be in the grip of a monomania for happiness or love or fulfilment. Aaron's Rod But I was used to this kind of arrest by this time, and I went before the magistrate with my mind made up that I must suffer again for my matrimonial monomania. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story The study had become a monomania with him. The Life of Sir Richard Burton I should fall into a monomania, and one of a very loathsome kind.' Demos We have had under observation and treatment a number of insane patients whose peculiar delusion or monomania was an exaggerated fear of germs, a genuine bacteriophobia. Nature Cure He had a clog, a sort of monomania. Women in Love With my matrimonial monomania it was like putting my hand into the fire to go to a fresh place, where I should see fresh faces, and where fresh temptations would beset me. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story Indeed, his passion for this sort of literature had become a monomania. The Life of Sir Richard Burton "X." has entirely surrendered himself to his monomania of method, which to him has become a kind of dram-drinking. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 Still, nothing could daunt him or turn him from the almost impossible task he had undertaken, and his obstinate perseverance well-nigh developed into monomania. Monsieur Lecoq She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but heavily proud. Women in Love I believe she thinks I have a monomania against them.' Nuttie's Father He is said to have been a virtuous youth, whose monomania was shooting. Roman and the Teuton Match-making is a monomania with Maria Theresa: it is useless, therefore, for me to appeal to her, for on a question of marriage she is inexorable. Joseph II. and His Court Such was the burden of his thoughts until he was taken with monomania and his body wasted. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 It is a fancy, a monomania of our day: everybody wants to be a deputy. Within an Inch of His Life You are sacrificing your career to a monomania. Man and Superman He had become a monomaniac, and his monomania was his rebellious heroine. A Rebellious Heroine Jefferson, now in retirement, had long since nursed his antipathy for the Federal Judiciary to the point of monomania. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court The shock to me at first was overpowering, and I fell under the influence of that horrible monomania from which I had been free for so long. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott "Ay, Erotic monomania is a very ordinary phase of insanity," said Dr. Wycherley. Hard Cash His life had not been happy; it had been poisoned by a monomania, which, like a worm in the bud, had consumed the sweetness of his existence. The Lion's Skin Yet, from some cause which cannot now be traced, he had a taste for maritime pursuits which amounted to a passion, indeed almost to a monomania. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 The monomania of suspicion.—The nobles distrusted and treated as enemies.—Situation of a gentleman on his domain.—M. de. The French Revolution - Volume 1 Complete triumph and last excesses of classic reason.—How it becomes monomania.—Why its work is not enduring. The Ancient Regime One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be "dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being." A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine It was shortly after the christening of Atherly town that an incident occurred which at first shook, and then the more firmly established, his mild monomania. Tales of Trail and Town Each of them had his monomania; and the two monomaniac suited each other perfectly. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 His pursed lips and frowning brow indicated that he was in the grip of his monomania. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea This monomania, if I must so term it, consisted in a morbid irritability of those properties of the mind in metaphysical science termed the attentive. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 The remembrance of this, he said, should be ever present with him, and he was confident would protect him if his unhappy monomania shewed any signs of returning. Erewhon Revisited He had made it an amusement, and the amusement had become a monomania. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau It is enough to say that at intervals almost every form of madness appeared in the family, monomania being the most frequent manifestation of the affliction among them. The Queen of Hearts But he came near to losing his own again when the peasant persisted in connecting his tragedy with the traditional monomania about the foreign trees. The Trees of Pride Then came the full fury of my monomania, and I struggled in vain against its strange and irresistible influence. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 It seemed to be a sort of sociable monomania. The Man Who Knew Too Much The sight of gold, the possession of gold, had become a monomania. Eugenie Grandet A hobby is the happy medium between a passion and a monomania. La Grande Breteche They were so stricken with the deafness and blindness of monomania that they did not see the eldest Miss Chadd come out feverishly into the garden with gestures of entreaty, a gentleman following her. The Club of Queer Trades Deprived of her full reason by a terrible catastrophe, her monomania has something touching about it. The Lesser Bourgeoisie Scientific inquiry is his monomania, and vanity his ruling passion. After Dark All the crimes and horrors that ensued are attributable to the action of this monomania. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan At that age a predominant idea contracts a certain peevish fixedness which is the first stage of monomania. The Alkahest The patient suffers from monomania; very good, I am quite of that opinion," he said, "but he has two hundred thousand a year; monomaniacs of that kind are very uncommon. The Magic Skin "Did you know that the countess had left Paris?" said la Peyrade, rushing at the chance of speaking on the subject of his present monomania. The Lesser Bourgeoisie In some photographs of patients affected by a monomania of pride, sent me by Dr. Crichton Browne, the head and body were held erect, and the mouth firmly closed. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Madness in its first stage—monomania—is a lack of proportion. Lair of the White Worm "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor. The Count of Monte Cristo If you put leeches at once on the epigastrium, and reduce the irritation in that part, which is the very seat of man's life, and if you diet the patient, the monomania will leave him. The Magic Skin It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents. Bleak House Now, some of them insist that that is monomania. The Magic Skin But in monomania the errant faculty protrudes itself in a way that may not be denied. Lair of the White Worm The most usual form of monomania has commonly the same beginning as that from which Edgar Caswall suffered—an over-large idea of self-importance. Lair of the White Worm |
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