Sentence examples for compulsive pursuit from inspiring English sources
But the compulsive pursuit of beauty — and of beauties — makes "Miral" feel like an epic perfume commercial.
At the same time, the leagues can knit families and friends, in person and on the Web, in a common, compulsive pursuit.
This compulsive pursuit of the past also explains why, when my mom called to tell me she didn't want me to stay with her over Christmas this year, I felt it must be some misunderstanding.
Since the beginning of formal diagnostics more than 50 years ago, the compulsive pursuit of gambling, food, and sex (known as non-substance rewards) have not been regarded as addictions; only abuse of alcohol, opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis, heroin and nicotine have been formally regarded as addictions.
Moreover, CH patients might be biologically more vulnerable to compulsive pursuit of legal and illegal substances for a partial overlap/sharing of pathways which mediate addiction and are involved in the pathophysiology of CH.
Dez, a 30-something former lawyer and ephebophile who's been disbarred thanks to his compulsive pursuit of teenage girls, no matter the risks, is hiding out with his latest target: Chloe, a distractingly beautiful 17-year-old who is currently annoying him with her demonstrative grief over her mother's sudden death in a car accident.
At normal intensity levels, such amino acid neurotransmitter signals may act on valence-coded locations in rostral medial shell to help give healthy attractiveness to rewards and zest to life, whereas at excessively higher levels may contribute to compulsive drug addiction and related compulsive pursuits [56], [60].
The Weitzes' script (co-written by Peter Hedges) nicely conveys that classic Hornby sense of intelligent men who exist with no culture, other than obsessive-compulsive pursuits which erode rather than advance their sense of self.
Here, Mr. Fassbender's character, Brandon, is a knotted-up Midtown Manhattanite who spends his office hours devouring pornography on the Internet and his free time in compulsive sexual pursuit.
Almost a third (31.9%) had "exercised in a driven or compulsive way" in pursuit of that goal, although that might have been partly due to 52% of the respondents being gym members, when the average is 12%.
He called upon people around the globe to hear "both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor" resulting from "compulsive consumerism" and the pursuit of profit above all else.
