Sentence examples for obsessive attachment from inspiring English sources

Bissell is equally well known as a gaming aficionado who documented his obsessive attachment to the Grand Theft Auto series in the Guardian in 2010.

IF you find yourself hankering to travel with Fido, Tweety or whatever you have dubbed your pet, and you're feeling apologetic about your obsessive attachment, drop the angst.

In a sense his art and politics were shaped by one dominant emotion: an abiding, almost obsessive attachment to the world of his rural childhood, the only world in which he probably ever felt truly at ease.

The fifth person is an SS officer, Bendel, who has an obsessive attachment to the pearl of the collection, an enigmatic Van Gogh which may or may not be a self-portrait.

Gonne's estranged husband, John MacBride, was executed, leaving Yeats free to propose to her again; but, more importantly by Foster's account, Yeats formed an obsessive attachment to her daughter Iseult (obsessive attachments become an increasingly crucial stimulus for Yeats's creativity, culminating at the end of his life in sexual dependencies of some indignity).

Rivière, a young misfit, claims to have acted under orders from God but actually sought to avenge his father's persecution at the hands of his mother, who, in her obsessive attachment to her family's farmstead and resentment of her mother-in-law's authority, bled her husband dry financially while dallying with other men.

There is, it seems, a third way between Badinter's idealized intellectually oriented career mom and the obsessive-attachment parenting she so reviles.

His obsessive gestures of attachment seem both requests and offerings.

Recent studies [ 7] confirmed a positive and significant correlation between obsessive love and ambivalent attachment style.

There's still, though, an obsessive quality about the Anglican attachment to episcopacy.

Living "the opiated husk of a life, the treadmill of the ordinary, a cage built of convention and consumerism and obligation and fear", Nora appoints the Shahids her saviours as her attachment develops an obsessive flavour reminiscent of Zoë Heller's lonely narrator in Notes on a Scandal.