At the same time, the list of speakers (and conspicuous absentees) was a reminder of the Serbian opposition's weaknesses, which include a compulsive tendency to squabble.
Opinion polls suggest that only about a fifth of Serbia's voters, many of them old-age pensioners, want to keep Mr Milosevic in charge.For the first time, his government is facing an opposition movement that is not tainted, in the public's mind, with the perceived failings of the regime's other opponents: power-seeking vanity and a compulsive tendency to quarrel.
By and large, his somewhat compulsive tendency to regulate and keep track — he noted his mileage every day, recorded how much they spent on every item of clothing, made long lists of gardening seeds to purchase, entered into Sebastopolian campaigns of protest letters — was steadying for Virginia Woolf, though sometimes it has a quality both touching and absurd.
Other announcements are expected imminently.The real worry, however, is not so much about the compulsive tendency of Japanese chip makers to over-invest, but that their windfall profits from rising DRAM prices will encourage them to abandon many of the painful reforms that they had begun to put in place.
The song defers to the conventions of glossy pop music without entirely surrendering Krell's compulsive tendency toward somberness, as does the rest of the album.
I'm talking specifically about our compulsive tendency to try and stay alive well beyond our natural stay on earth, by running up massive pre-death bills that sustain our heartbeat and bodies a short time, even though it's our time to go.
It turned out that she was diagnosed with an obsessive-compulsive tendency to hoard.
I figured out later, when I entered graduate school (and diagnosed everybody and their dog... including myself by the way...) that my mother had obsessive compulsive tendencies, was a horrible worrier (termed Generalized Anxiety Disorder), and was not a hoarder per se but certainly was what she would call a "saver".
It's also a fairly good indication that I have compulsive tendencies.
Try to turn down any obessive compulsive tendencies at this point: It's normal for a small amount of skin to remain.
Suddenly, it was 5 AM, and, like Alice in Wonderland with compulsive tendencies, I had gone down the rabbit hole of a pop-up ad and entered live masturbation land.
