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.

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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.

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