Sentence examples for a compulsive streak from inspiring English sources

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He definitely has a compulsive streak.

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That, says Dagon, may be an attempt on the part of the hackers to avoid human detection of the traffic redirects–or may simple be "the work of an attacker with an obsessive compulsive streak".

Discusses Peasley's compulsive streak and his appetite for trial work.

Episode 8 was a thoughtful side trip into sympathy for Spacey's devilish main character, but by then I was exhausted, and only my compulsive streak kept me going until the finale — at which point I was critically destabilized and looking forward to Season 2. Sensually, visually, "House of Cards" is a pleasure.

Episode 8 was a thoughtful side trip into sympathy for Spacey's devilish main character, but by then I was exhausted, and only my compulsive streak kept me going until the finale at which point I was critically destabilized and looking forward to Season 2. Sensually, visually, "House of Cards" is a pleasure.

He had not only a legendary temper but also an obsessive-compulsive streak incompatible with the mess of raising four children.

Red is the proprietor of a body shop, and Ollie, we soon learn, has not left the house in years and seems to have an obsessive-compulsive streak besides: he cleans endlessly, but in a precocious sort of way, talking of the "dirt film strips" in which he can read the history of the house.

Plus there is that basic Ramos-ness, a compulsive, often klutzy streak of nastiness.

The maddeningly goofy Rene is a compulsive talker with a streak of the ham actor in him.

All I can say so far is that a lot of the time Hamlet seems like a deranged psychopath, and a compulsive wisecracker with a strong streak of emotional cruelty.

Chaucer's the name -- Geoffrey Chaucer Mr. Bettanyy) -- a compulsive gambler who often loses his clothing but an imaginative fellow good at inventing curriculum vitae and yelling a blue streak to the roaring masses.

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