Sentence examples for obsessive by from inspiring English sources

On second viewing, though, I found Hunnam's more moderate incarnation true to the movie's sense of Fawcett's own obsession: Percy isn't an obsessive by nature, he's an obsessive malgré lui.

"Don't you love an obsessive?" By the time Gilbert arrives back in Frenchtown, she's famished.

Well, try Martin Nicholas, a water-treatment engineer from Bracknell by day, but a tarantula obsessive by night.

His antimissile efforts, obsessive by most accounts and dismissed by critics as doomed to failure, were his way of trying to protect his adopted country from the horrors he helped bring into the world.

Bryan was listening to music at five years old, and "obsessive" by the age of 10 or 11, ever since his Aunt Enid and her husband had met some GIs in Gibraltar, and returned home with a suitcase full of jazz records.

Obsessive by nature, I took my investigation into the world of genital piercings very seriously—I wanted to be absolutely sure before I began poking holes down there.

Possession -- by eros, by obsessive religiosity, by a ravenous parent or a violent act in the past -- has shadowed not only Harrison but also her female protagonists in novels like "Exposure," "Poison" and "The Binding Chair".

For those who collect vintage patterns, Karen Savell, a self-described "obsessive paint-by-numberist," may be the answer.

For thousands of years, home cooks around the Mediterranean — food obsessives by necessity, not by choice — have used nothing more than sun and salt for curing.

The Classic Hollywood Archive Project, which I'm proposing with this very naming, would get the studios to join together to digitize and make available their entire range of productions, via streaming video, whether for single viewings or, for us obsessives, by subscription or membership.

His great novels remain difficult because their realism is underlain by obsessive personal metaphors, by elements of mythology, and above all by his attempt to express in words what is normally wordless because it exists below consciousness.