Word: monomanias
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...hand I am worried that we may not follow-up on the Core as aggressively as we did last semester," Hulse added. "On the other hand I think the quantity of legislation coming out of the committee last year may have been diminished by our monomania about the Core...
...clever novel explores the monomania of collecting...
This restlessness saves Hardy the poet from his obsessions -- you might even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...
...whole audience knows from the start that Culkin plays an undercover killer, then it's none too tricky to produce tense moments auguring imminent disaster. Ruben dwells on each scary mask, toy gun, and childish threat, until Culkin's every mouthful at dinner appears redolent of latent monomania...
Davis frames the text's tough words with equally uncompromising music. Incessant rhythmic ostinatos reflect Malcolm's deepening monomania; the voice line shears off unexpectedly in outbursts of rage and pain, while the jazz- tinged orchestration firmly locates the action in time and place...