Anybody passing through England over the next month cannot fail to notice the national obsession with the country's football team from the St George's flags fluttering from cars, to the monomania of the papers.
The resurrected chorus of refugees from the 1847 "Macbeth" speaks as strongly for Bosnians or Afghans today as it did for Italians at the time of its writing.Nonetheless, there is something curiously English in the monomania of the festival's prime movers.
He is a thin-skinned bully whose monomania would make him a truly dangerous choice to lead the world's only hyperpower.Ian AltermanNew YorkYour correspondent writes: 'As mayor, [Rudy Giuliani] supported gun control, public funding for abortions, and formal domestic partnership for gays.
Using the same phrasing:If Mr D'Souza hailed from a tiny Westernised elite that allied itself with the European colonialist project against the national independence movement of his own country, that would explain his monomania about anti-colonialism.It would, however, be unfair to explain Mr D'Souza's views this way.
Some question whether his appetite for politics, which in his youth bordered on monomania, ever returned after he led the Tories to a landslide loss in 2001.
His arrogance, meanwhile, verges on monomania.
His preoccupation with death, violence, monomania and extreme psychological states make his paintings and lithographs both horrifying and utterly compelling.
The Dalek rapidly became, and has remained, the personification for robotic, procedure-obsessed, indefectible managerial monomania.
This reviewer was immured in the monomania of Finals' revision in the summer of 1977; the Queen's Jubilee seemed like a phantom event unfolding like an irrelevant dream outside the pale of my privileged imprisonment.
She's defined by monomania, absolute certainty, her willingness to confront superiors.
I think, then, of Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in 2005, in which he strongly criticized the United States government for monomania, unreliability, and lies (and the U.K. for its weak collusion in this), especially in relation to the then current invasion of Iraq.
