Sentence examples for less compulsive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Puck was less compulsive.

"The more complicated games get, the less compulsive they are," Mr. Gray said.

But the home cook is less compulsive than I am about the consistency of every sprig of herb, every garlic clove, every slice of potato, every trace of sauce on the plate.

However, the only way to end doping in sport for good is to reduce the incentive to cheat, says Hoberman of the University of Texas, "to literally reform high performance sport into a less compulsive and competitive activity".

More breathing, less chronic stress and less compulsive consuming.

This way of thinking is often unconscious, but it's no less compulsive for that.

Cut the oil dependency on Saudi Arabia and in theory the US has less a compulsive reason to maintain interests in the region.

Even though the users probably realise they are less tolerant, the compulsive nature of opioid, alcohol and cocaine use impairs their ability to stop.

"Thank you very much," interjected Mr. McCain, the one who worked harder Tuesday night at such folksy notes — like calling questioners and even Tom Brokaw by their first names; roaming so far and wide across the stage it seemed he would end up in the Nashville suburbs; and saying "my friends" so often it sounded less cordial than compulsive.

Instagram is working on a feature for in-app time management, but stuff like this negates Facebook's broader supposed efforts to make our relationship with its attention-hungry platforms less of a compulsive tic.

This appears to disagree with the incentive sensitization theory of addiction [ 48, 49], and seems more in line with theories where incentive sensitization is mainly important during escalation of drug use and less when subsequent compulsive drug use progresses [ 50, 51].