Sentence examples for compulsive smoker from inspiring English sources
Claude Debussy was distant and brilliant, a compulsive smoker, a letter-writing genius.
In fact, as I watched our hero, Garvey, mourn for his dead wife, who was not in fact dead, but had joined a silent, white linen-clad cult of compulsive smokers, it occurred to me that some of my favourite television has been morbid, unfathomable, beautifully filmed potential gubbins like The Leftovers.
A compulsive cigarette smoker, he enjoys his Jack Daniel's, tossing back three whiskeys at our first interview and tapping his own dedicated bottle under the bar at the Wexner opening.
As with mobile technology, what made smoking so obnoxious was that it was addictive and compulsive, blinding smokers to their impact on non-smokers.
To his doctors' frustration, he was a workaholic and a compulsive chain-smoker.
Carr's typical smoker, by contrast, was a compulsive bottom-feeder, shovelling down machine-rolled filter-tip after filter-tip, always the same mass-produced brand.
When I listen to the talk around me, I detect more sympathy for smokers or alcoholics than for overeaters, though the latter are in the grip of a similarly compulsive and perhaps addictive behavior, one with a twist that can make it even harder to control.
Was this compulsive behavior?
