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Niccol is roused less by the moral quandaries of drone deployment, I think, than by the sheer sensory oddity of this new ritual, with its compound of monkishness and mayhem.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

Will you tell me, my dear fellow," said Bianchon, as they left the church, "the reason for your fit of monkishness?

From The Atheist's Mass by Balzac, Honoré de

Indeed I had not thought to marry, though I was free to do so; for a novice does not quickly shake off his monkishness.

From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh