Sentence examples for dark obsessive from inspiring English sources

But dark, obsessive, even violent motifs and rhythmic spans keep threatening.

Perhaps, after all, this suggests the dark, obsessive side to Colman's Pollyanna-ish personality the journalist needs, instead of all this useless positivity.

Hitchcock lifts the story out of du Maurier's dark, obsessive claustrophobia and presents a riveting satire about the toxicity of the gentility.

Jackie takes her wedding ring off before going to work; the sex with Eddie is joyless and might as well be anonymous, since he doesn't even know that she's married; and her younger daughter has started to have dark, obsessive thoughts — the girl's teacher tells Jackie and Kevin that she circles her desk three times before she sits down, "so the planes don't come out of the sky".

He plays this quite dark, obsessive and bitter, it's kind of a Captain Ahab figure.

Her own thoughts, their dark and obsessive nature, were what frightened her most of all.

Because of the unremitting bleakness of his films - though he did make a few droll comedies - he is thought of as being dark, depressing, obsessive, Scandinavian.

Quandaries of love and work illumine Farmer (1976; filmed as Carried Away, 1996), but take on increasingly dark and obsessive overtones in Legends of the Fall (1979), Warlock (1981), and Sundog (1984).

Certain conversations were omitted from that memoir out of sensitivity to those still alive, and it is these communications, often dark and obsessive, sometimes sharply funny, always passionately alive, that Hotchner recounts in Between Two Women.

Jenna Nicholas was reading Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Give Me Your Heart: Examining, in the way that only Oates can, the dark, jealous, obsessive, hopeless side of 'love', some of the stories are genuinely uncomfortable to read – especially The First Husband – but, as with all of the Oates I've read, they are tightly plotted and brilliantly written.

Here they came to the Third concerto, and trod lightly even through its darkest, most obsessive, most weirdly menacing corners.