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- adjective
tyrannically monomaniac
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Examples
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Throughout his career, Kenton—the pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and pop demagogue—embarked on an Ahabian quest to forge a new music, inspired equally by the 20th-century concert music he loved and the jazz that had also captured his heart.
The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids Will Friedwald 2012
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Essentially another morality play on Nietzsche's gaze into the abyss bit, there's a couple of subplots, including one involving a profiler's hypothetical Ahabian great white whale of an evildoer, etc.
the dream is always the same....(theremin) badger 2004
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In an act of arguably Ahabian obsessiveness, writer Damion Searls has pulled together every chapter, word, and punctuation mark that Orion's abridger cut from Melville's original
Brit Lit Blogs no-reply@britlitblogs.com (Vertigo: Collecting 2010
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