Sentence examples for compulsive element from inspiring English sources

"Is there a compulsive element in all this activity?" one interviewer asked her.

Another compulsive element of these games is something game designers call "disproportionate feedback" and its something borrowed from slot machines.

This reworking and repositioning of material is a compulsive element of Clark's work and for his fans a trainspotterish hunting-down and identification of quotes is very much part of the fun.

In addition to modeling high alcohol consumption, researchers also have attempted to model the compulsive element of drinking that is part of the diagnostic criteria for an AUD (for review, see Vengeliene et al. 2009).

They write that there is an almost obsessive-compulsive element to his writing, which includes anything he can find to support a narrative that connects ancient Sumer to modern America, in a way that "defies the laws of academic gravity," and which they say offers unlimited explanatory power.

There is a lot of "I don't know what came over me" post-crime, and some connect shoplifting to an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with a purge/binge element coming in the form of risk/reward.

Having many intrusive, unwanted thoughts or impulses is a known element of obsessive compulsive order.

Such shows have all the content elements of the reality genre: compulsive viewing; degrees of conflict and humiliation; audience involvement; and at least on a peripheral, controlled level participation.

The conversation that passed back and forth was the element that supplemented obsessive entertainment with an the element of compulsive curiosity.

PeaceLove Studios Jeff Sparr is the co founder of PeaceLove Studios, and art is an important element of his wellness prescription for managing the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Yallop is interested in collecting as an expression of the Victorian age – "a compulsive urge to do things bigger and better, to bring as many elements as possible under one protective umbrella, to control, to regulate and to extend".