Sentence examples for compulsive preference from inspiring English sources

Throughout his poetry, Casal expressed an almost compulsive preference for the artificial and man-made over the natural.

This week, Robert Wilson launches his multimedia theatre piece "Alice" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; according to the press release, it will investigate the "curious mind" of a man who "seemed the perfect Victorian Englishman as a clergyman and a well-known mathematician, but was also a compulsive photographer with a strong preference for young girls".

A recently developed ethanol self-administration assay demonstrates that flies prefer to consume ethanol-containing food over regular food and that this preference exhibits several features reminiscent of compulsive alcohol consumption (Ja et al. 2007; Devineni and Heberlein 2009).

It is suggested that compulsive ordering and a drive for symmetry are extreme manifestations of the common preference for order and symmetry.

The physicians' diagnosis and treatment preferences for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobia (SP), and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) were determined through clinical vignettes prepared for data collection.

Levodopa/carbidopa is used in preference to the dopamine agonists because the latter are more likely to induce compulsive behavior.

To demonstrate this, we developed a novel model of the transition from controlled to compulsive drug use that recapitulates many features of human addiction, including persistent drug seeking despite adverse consequences and a decreased preference for alternative rewards.

Compulsive hoarding.

Was this compulsive behavior?

Take compulsive lying.

It was compulsive.