Sentence examples for knows obsessive from inspiring English sources

This project is, however, fatally marred in Franzen's nonfiction by a flaw that readers of Franzen's fiction are already likely to be familiar with, which is the author's total lack of humor — a quality without which, as every stand-up comedian knows, obsessive self-exposure is tedious rather than entertaining or edifying.

"She knows how obsessive I am".

"You know how obsessive artists can be".

Lawyers are known for obsessive attention to detail – after all, their job is to hone in on any potential negatives.

Periodic because – as I now know from obsessive reading about fox behaviour – when the cubs grow they usually disperse.

Your story in this week's issue, "Nero," is about a seven-year-old girl who visits her grandparents and gets to know their obsessive guard dog.

If you've ever read any of O'Neill's letters, you know how obsessive he was in his youth about losing himself in romantic relationships, how he couldn't stand to be alone.

By Deborah Treisman April 27 , 2012Your story in this week's issue, "Nero," is about a seven-year-old girl who visits her grandparents and gets to know their obsessive guard dog.

She famously called Yasir Arafat "a man born to irritate," and described Henry A. Kissinger, whom she interviewed in 1972, this way: "Do you know that obsessive, hammering sound of rain falling on a roof?

In their heyday, the group (now supplemented by three female backup singers and a horn section) were known as obsessive perfectionists who spent millions of dollars in the recording studio torturing the many guitarists who apparently weren't "yacht-smooth" enough to complete the classic solos on their quirky, jazz-inflected songs.

While Jess is perhaps best known for obsessive collages and strangely baked-looking, seemingly paint-by-numbers realist paintings, this exhibition of works primarily from the 1950s and '60s concentrates on his less familiar wanderings through the late-19th-century French Symbolist-Nabi nexus of Redon, Vuillard and Bonnard and a freewheeling curiosity about the physical possibilities of paint.