Initially Obama allowed us to redefine American exceptionalism as something more than monomaniacal use of force and overconsumption.
It wouldn't work without an actor as intense and magnificent as Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Daniel Plainview, a monomaniacal oilman.
Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
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.
Realpoliticians will declare it folly, a commitment to "nation-building" beyond our resources or will, a goal at cross- purposes with Secretary of State Colin Powell's monomaniacal focus on securing international "support" for our war effort even from terrorist-sponsoring states.
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.
The Clinton Administration's monomaniacal determination to consummate a deal right away (after three years of virtual indifference, fecklessness and inaction on the Bosnian crisis) precipitated round-the-clock negotiating sessions, arm-twisting and knee-breaking that has produced a peace accord, but almost certainly will produce no peace.
Allow an elite group of monomaniacal thugs to subject the people trapped inside to five decades of brutal repression, privation, confiscation, and humiliation, all bolstered by relentless propaganda designed to convince victims and observers alike that this is necessary for the greater glory of the revolution.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is not just as we wish it to be then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
If a President whose monomaniacal attachment to wishful thinking is replaced by a man and an Administration prepared to reckon with the world as it really is -- not just as we wish it to be -- then the United States may yet be spared further travel down the dangerous road toward effective unilateral chemical disarmament.
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