Sentence examples for compulsive attention from inspiring English sources

Today, after all this, Foster is still the object of compulsive attention from strangers.

They may command our sometimes compulsive attention, but can we ever really love them?

"It's magical, enchanting, peaceful, relaxing," said Mr. Fuchs, who is known not for relaxation but for extreme focus and compulsive attention to detail — attributes that have won him both admirers and enemies in the orchid world.

When "Melancholia" hits America, the debates over Mr. von Trier may rekindle, and anyone who suggests he is merely a compulsive attention getter or rejects the idea that an author's stated intentions offer the last (or only) word on his work, can look forward to being criticized.

(By the way, this matched, monogrammed set of symbols, we learn in the credits, was designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, with "suitcase wildlife drawings" by Eric Anderson.) The trip has been planned by Francis, with compulsive attention to detail (perhaps a bit of self-satire on the director's part) and with an explicit therapeutic purpose.

She often sought refuge in her vanity and her compulsive attention to her looks.

And what of the people who voted for him overwhelmingly, thinking that they would get back the old compulsive attention-seeker?

Perhaps he was able to access the mindset of a compulsive attention-seeker such as Sinclair so easily because of his own determination to present every single television programme that has ever been made.

But the same absurd obsessive-compulsive attention to detail has gone into all of them, and it shows.

"Most influential designers today are known for simplicity," said Jeffrey Kalinsky, the executive vice president for designer merchandising at Nordstrom, citing Phoebe Philo of Céline and Raf Simons, whose seeming straightforwardness is actually the product of deft cutting and brash experiments with volume and proportion, and a near-compulsive attention to detail.

Combine that level of quality with an obsessive-compulsive attention to culinary detail, and you may have a model for the perfect festival: sizable yet manageable, exhaustive but in no way unbearable.