Sentence examples for compulsive nature from inspiring English sources

24th Annual Duke Nicotine Research Conference: "Craving, Compulsion, and Cigarette Smoking: Mechanisms & Therapies" Recent conceptualizations of addiction emphasize the compulsive nature of addictive behaviors, accompanied by craving and loss of control, more than physical withdrawal symptoms accompanying abstinence.

The compulsive nature of the novel was partly born out of desperation.

Even though the users probably realise they are less tolerant, the compulsive nature of opioid, alcohol and cocaine use impairs their ability to stop.

He once wrote something interesting about the compulsive nature of games: When you play a game 10,000 times, the graphics become invisible.

He can't help it; he has a compulsive nature – one that, like his professed "crippling self-consciousness", seems to be at odds with the insouciance and languor of his public persona.

This is where he had first demonstrated his skill at communicating with horses, as well as the compulsive nature that would lead him to the winner's circle of two Kentucky Derbies and at least twice that many rehabilitation clinics.

Her competitive, perfectionist, obsessive-compulsive nature made her ideally suited to a career as a chef.

Spielberg's obsessive-compulsive nature helps account for his intense concentration on his craft, his unrivaled technical skills and his insistence on perfection from his crews.

Proofreading was labor-intensive and wasteful in manuscript scriptorium, but quite cost-effective in a print shop; and if the print shop is busy preparing stock prospectuses where tens of millions of dollars are at stake, proofreading of a madly obsessive-compulsive nature is both cheap and sane in view of the possible losses from error.

Courteney Cox portrays Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her perfectionist, bossy, competitive, and obsessive-compulsive nature.

There are, in particular, circumstances in which an agent may be subject to, and act on, desires and wants that are themselves compulsive in nature (e.g., as with a drug addict or kleptomaniac).