Sentence examples for as a compulsive from inspiring English sources

Kuklinski emerges as a compulsive murderer who has found a way to get paid for his compulsion.

Errol Morris, the documentary filmmaker, sees himself as "a compulsive investigator," fascinated by history.

A fear of going down in history as a compulsive plotter?

He didn't see himself as a compulsive panderer with no central core.

On her conviction, Huhne said: "Constance Briscoe has been revealed as a compulsive and self-publicising fantasist.

This struck colleagues as a curious extra detail, because Chen was known as a compulsive checker of his facts.

That is a hard trick to pull off with a period so well and so widely known, but The Redhunter is as much a compulsive page-turner as any Stephen King or Tom Clancy thriller.

Excessive caloric intake of highly palatable food can be regarded as a compulsive-like feeding behaviour [2].

It's a very impulsive crime as opposed to a compulsive crime.

Written and directed by Charles Oliver, "Take" stars Minnie Driver as Ana, a working-class mom with a hyperactive child (Bobby Coleman), and Jeremy Renner as Saul, a compulsive gambler at the end of his rope.

Assimilating several sources, the term 'obsessed' might be best described as 'possessing a compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea'.