Our younger brothers, Ned and Mark, are convinced that their predilection-bordering-on-addiction for all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets stems from their childhood fears that there would be nothing left on the plate by the time their older brothers got through with it.
The front man's formative experiences instilled in him a love for melody bordering on addiction.
In fact, for those whose craving for bacon borders on addiction, Schaller & Weber's should be a controlled substance.
My relationship with the "Baby-Sitters Club" series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well.
It's not a panacea, it's a tool, and the rotary telephone was also often a teen fetish bordering on addiction (as in Douglas Sirk's "There's Always Tomorrow").
Just this week, a study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior found that certain populations experience profound social and emotional benefits from excessive Internet use — even Internet use bordering on addiction.
That evening there was a party at Annabel's, the famous nightclub in London, and one of my abiding memories is of the crate of Coca-cola beside Mr Engelhard's chair being steadily emptied by Nijinsky's owner, who had a consuming passion for the drink which bordered on addiction.
Regardless, I feel that the desire for Likes borders on addiction, and as with addiction, it takes a stronger and stronger dose to give us our fix, or at least a unique one.
As if you didn't need more proof that your darn kids need to get off the computer and into the back yard, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Department of Psychology have found that excessive Internet use — essentially bordering on addiction — leads to school burnout in teens.
For me it's pure escapism bordering on addiction.
