Initially Obama allowed us to redefine American exceptionalism as something more than monomaniacal use of force and overconsumption.

FORBES: New Geographer

It wouldn't work without an actor as intense and magnificent as Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Daniel Plainview, a monomaniacal oilman.

NPR: Movie Madness (Some of it Genius) for the Holidays

But Lexmark has thrived where others have feared to tread before and if the company maintains its monomaniacal focus on printers and printers alone, we bet they will keep on thriving.

FORBES: Toned and ready

Like the cleverest smears, however, this episode will stick to him, because it seems to confirm something already suspected about Mr Brown and his government: that some of its members and its rivalrous leader are monomaniacal about the getting and hoarding of power.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot