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Tom is obsessive.
Tom is an obsessive checker and gets up several times every night to make sure the front door is locked.
Tom is an obsessive collector.
Mary is an obsessive fan of Tom.
Movie subtitles
Just as the orgy reached its obsessive peak. A strange figure appeared, who Watched us unobserved.
As a result of affective frustration you developed towards your daughter an exaggerated and obsessive sense of responsibility.
You have to be either an obsessive crackpot who's escaped from his keeper or Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law.
You have to be either an obsessive crackpot who's escaped from his keeper or Samuel T. Cogley, attorney-at-law.
I'm not that obsessive.
The introjection of these obsessive, hallucinatory needs does not produce an adaption to reality, but mimesis, standardization: The cancellation of individuality.
It is my theory that you have an obsessive love of jewellery, madame, that you coveted Madame Doyle's pearls and that you determined to possess them, even if this meant robbery or murder.
Count, I think this is wonderful work, but I do not understand this obsessive urgency.
Then I can go back to being obsessive about my family.
This entire crew seems on the edge of obsessive behaviour regarding Spock.
But the defendant's persistent claims that even if she's given 100 years she will dig up the deceased anyway, the strange categoricalness of that declaration go beyond obsessive ideas and simply turn into delirium.
You're such an obsessive person and that drives me crazy.
Perhaps it takes desire, an obsessive desire.
We stand between him and his obsessive desire.
He's had an obsessive fear of poverty ever since.
To the obsessive need of your presence since you left Dijon.
Well, I think that the boy has obsessive juvenile fantasies, coupled with an overstimulated psyche.
He strikes me as being an obsessive-compulsive, -under tremendous strain.
To me, they seemed unreal and obsessive at the same time.
With the obsessive enthusiasm of a true convert, Vassian drew and photographed the Orchard, and filmed it on every film stock he could lay his hands on.
Curiosity about What happens after death grew to an obsessive quest. But We'll go back to the oracles of the dead on Tuesday.
We stands between him and his obsessive desire.
You'll see them fight tiredness, sleep, the obsessive and implacable music.
I understand. He's had an obsessive fear of poverty ever since.
Visions from the past and the obsessive thought of Joachim Stiller.
That's one of her obsessive ideas, or rather one of the dreams that characterizes her best.
The young bride started to have migraines. and thought I had obsessive thoughts.
This entire crew seems on the edge of obsessive behavior concerning Mr. Spock.
You know, Ben, you are such an obsessive person, and that drives me crazy.
Call me obsessive-compulsive, but we must do this now.
For a non-obsessive relationship, that's pretty good.
But when our attention turned from outer space to the wooded areas surrounding Twin Peaks, he became destructively obsessive.
News and current affairs
As 2003 draws to a close, it is time for world leaders to help guide the world away from the obsessive, failing approach of America's government.
On the other side of the debate, Europe's desperate reformers see no way to trim, roll back or blow up the Continent's obsessive bureaucracies and consensual politicians.
Maradona's helpless soul was suffocated by the people's obsessive and suffocating love; at the same time, he couldn't live without that addictive drug.
When will Russians stop being maniac and obsessive about America?
The conscious expression of this dream is an obsessive response to the certainty of biological death: the belief that a big enough win in the game of science will beat death itself by conferring a form of immortality on the winner.
The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.
They are also widely used to treat social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, sexual compulsions, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
But only in illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression do we find disease processes that directly and profoundly transform a person's self, identity, and place in the community.
The individual with obsessive-compulsive disorder both dreads and is ashamed by irrational obsessions and compulsions, yet finds engaging in these thoughts and actions irresistible.
Most young male faculty members have an obsessive need to work 20 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that a (sometimes-illusory) competitor is beaten to the punch.
Or the teenager disabled by obsessive compulsive disorder.
An obsessive US administration, led by a President who reportedly believes that he is on a holy mission to fight terror in the Middle East, pays no attention to the rest of the world.
In each case, we see obsessive people arrogating to themselves the right to decide others' fate, and using modern technology for their harmful purposes.
Despite their political systems' deep differences, they both favor the regional status quo, and they share an obsessive suspicion of Iran.
From the perspective of the European Union (and many liberal Serbs), this narrative has the familiar ring of jingoism, obsessive self-regard, and an enduring attachment to victimhood.
The reasons were always the same: politico-religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers - hence modern Zionism's obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.
But, ever since Suleman hit the news stream, dozens of media outlets have begun to report, with a kind of obsessive revulsion, on her every move.