1 Such monomania has been useful to warriors since long before the silicon age.

2 Thus, finally, Ahab recognizes the monomania of his pursuit, but can do nothing about it.

3 Monomania is a prerequisite of success.

4 The western world was indeed black with homicidal monomania.

5 The Keynesian fantasy is really a monomania because ultimately it is a fixation on a single panacea — more government spending.

6 The monomania reminiscent of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick is present in Mark Zuckerberg; the same intensity that yields successful entrepreneurs.

7 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.

8 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.

9 "In his prime, Gates combined the monomania of the compulsive software programmer with the competitiveness of Attila the Hun, " said Nicholas Carr, author of Does IT Matter and The Big Switch.

10 Can I explain to her that I am fully in sympathy with their monomania?

11 She has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania.

12 Audley,[] and do you select me as the victim of your monomania?

13 But if they avoid all contact with others for too long a period, they fall into fresh danger of monomania, hallucination, or illusory progress.

14 "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.

15 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 .