Word: monomanias
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...reproduce in stone every rhythm of the human body became for him almost a monomania. He would have his model throw herself down over and over in different attitudes, any attitudes, and would draw her with fierce, scrawling strokes. How his Man with the Broken Nose was refused by the Salon jury is history; in 1877 he was accused of faking his Age of Bronze-now in the Luxembourg -by taking a mold from the living model. Good people have denounced his works wholesale as "erotic." Academicians have stated that he^ combines a coarse literary mind with an inadequate technique...
...great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were largely the product of an enthusiasm, perhaps a monomania...
...Jewish Tribune (New York) published an open letter to Mr. Hearst: "Surely you must know that Mr. Ford has not yet rid himself of the 'Jewish peril' obsession. How can you, who have so repeatedly condemned this monomania, now seriously propose for President...
...there might be something fresh and modern in the neighborhood to relieve the antique barrenness of their abode; or if Mr. G. Washington, the only and original father of his country, had, while his troops were encamped in the College buildings, been seized with a severe attack of his monomania, and had gone to whittling the tree or otherwise mutilating it with edged tools; or if the early College presidents had been in the habit of hanging their monthly wash upon its swaying branches, - then, and in any similar case of sacred historic association, not only would I decry...
...university should be a charitable institution in no way save where the interests of education can be promoted; but we have a monomania, here, for the assistance of the se facturi ipsi to the detriment of all others, which will some day reduce our College to a classical and scientific poor-house with aesthetic accompaniments...