Example sentences for: obsessive

How can you use “obsessive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What distinguishes Saramago from Borges is his tenderness and his explicit, even obsessive, curiosity about human emotion.

  • For me, though, the resale market is irrelevant; I never resell anything, thanks to the same obsessive traits that keep me on eBay in the first place.

  • The Valine allele was shown to be preferentially transmitted to ADHD probands and was associated with impulsive false alarm errors on a continuous performance task [ 56 ] . Several studies on obsessive compulsive disorder have found associations with COMT [ 57 58 59 60 ] . Associations with bipolar disorder [ 61 ] and temperamental dimensions [ 62 ] have also been reported.

  • You even sacked your magazine's editor, Michael Kelly, at least in part because, in his "obsessive" (your term) attacks on the character of the Clinton administration, Kelly ... how to put it ... failed to completely appreciate Gore's virtues.

  • Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.


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