Sentence examples for obsessive cleanliness from inspiring English sources

They are here to rally around a confident, willful soul whose only quirk is obsessive cleanliness.

A decade later, Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, condemned left-handedness as "an expression of infantile negativism" leading to rebellious stubbornness, secretive superstition, parsimony, obsessive cleanliness and other unpleasant traits — all due, it was believed, to an unloving "refrigerator mother".

Studies also have suggested that the obsessive cleanliness in the West and overuse of antibiotics may be creating a generation whose immune systems, perhaps too protected from attack in childhood, are now constantly on overdrive, resulting in far more asthma and allergies.

Obsessive cleanliness has always stood for madness, but some of Sigmund Freud's insights might be useful here.

A strikingly buff Gordon-Levitt plays Jon, who literally seems like a Jersey Shore cast member and shares their dedication to working out, obsessive cleanliness, good buddies (played by Rob Brown and Jeremy Luke), and non-stop sexual conquests, which earned Jon the Don title.

Which means the goofy (and neurotic) couple that is Monica and Chandler is off somewhere in the fictional Westchester universe raising their twins, whose combination of amazing cooking skills, obsessive cleanliness and bad jokes undoubtedly makes them the hits of their fifth-grade class.

The Egyptians were obsessive about cleanliness, using a natural soda compound called natron for cleaning the mouth and sometimes a chewing reed to massage the teeth.

As long as there are mystical wolves and imaginary lands and half-naked slave girls in the mix, why not throw in a self-conscious philosopher, a jester with some A.D.H.D. leanings or a princess who distracts herself with obsessive-compulsive cleanliness?

The urge to maintain cleanliness is obsessive.

Burns's paranoid obsession with germs and cleanliness, and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens, parodies American magnate Howard Hughes, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was involved in the casino business in his later years.

(Henriques also suspects that Trump is obsessive-compulsive, with a fixation on cleanliness and disgust.