Sentence examples for compulsive recording from inspiring English sources

Our compulsive recording of the world around us is an attempt to make memory something that it can never be: snared, stowed away, able to be relived in high fidelity whenever we choose.

At the end of that first full year those few minutes a day of what became compulsive recording paid off.

The Han was not only a literate society but one of compulsive record keepers.

Instead, there's something canned about this compulsive record, and Swofford seems at least in part to know it.

From an eccentric Jewish Texan family of compulsive record keepers — their father maintained a four-page list of his life's achievements — Marie became a New York liberal, Carl a diehard conservative who abandoned a legal career to farm apples.

One, it's a compulsive record of your life.

His portrayal of an obsessive compulsive record-store owner in High Fidelity kind of validated the kind of existence I had in the early 1990s, when I was suffering through eating disorders and I'd bum a couple of bucks from a friend so I could buy a 79-cent taco at Taco Bell (and call it dinner).

Never mind the amorphous theme, which really befits only Roman Opalka's obsessive number painting and On Kawara's compulsive date recording.

These are the words of the most remarkable item on a compulsive new record, the Beatles' latest LP (Parlophone stereo PCS 7009; mono PMC 7009), called in typical punning way "Revolver".

The numerous but often cryptic entries suggest that Mr. North was a compulsive note taker, recording his meetings and telephone calls in books that totaled more than 2,600 pages.

I felt I was a witness to significant historical events and, being a writer [Mullin is also a novelist] felt a compulsive desire to record them.