Sentence examples for Morbid fixation from inspiring English sources

What it does have is a morbid fixation on retribution.

She inherits the friend's Great Dane, but canine companionship does little to curb her increasingly morbid fixation on death and loss.

Her first memory is of a dead sparrow, and this morbid fixation with death grows with time.

What, from the outside, can look like a morbid fixation on death, excessive gallows humor and a lack of passion for quotidian happenings is, those on the inside know, just rejiggered priorities and lingering trauma.

In the evenings, we'd spend our last weary moments — our respite from the hours of combat training — lolling around in our tents and watching with morbid fixation the parade of ambulances; our eyes tracked these dust-caked vans through a thick haze of cigarette smoke that rose and fell in bluish undulations.

It is the same merciless combat with the dauphine of an old chief whose antisemitism, racism and hatred of democracy, culture and intelligence have been (and remain) an intense and morbid fixation.

As Boris tells Melodie: "What can I offer you but morbid fixations, hypochondriasis and misanthropy?" There are some great New York locations to savour, too, captured by one of the great current cinematographers, Harris Savides.

His fixation on his own needs, mirroring Mickey's morbid obsession with his own body functions, proves contemptible and engrossing in equal measures.

Thus, intuition, which determines the position of a subject in the world, by means of adopting particular characteristics (fixation or excessive dynamism, morbid geometrism, etc)., provides elements to identify the presence of psychosis.

As the novel progresses, we get more and more immersed in tragic passion and sexual fixation as well as more morbid pursuits.

These fixations are writ large here with the morbid sexuality of Saint Sebastian Guido Renii's version was supposedly the first image Mishima masturbated to).