Sentence examples for obsessive compulsions from inspiring English sources

Randy Lenz's obsessive compulsions include the need to be north, a fear of disks, a tendency to take his own pulse, a pathological fear of every form of timepiece, and a constant need to know the time with great precision.

The Republican Party is widely viewed by voters as offering little except a fanatic personal and partisan antipathy toward President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as obsessive compulsions about Benghazi and Obamacare, without any credible message about how life for Americans might improve if more Republicans are elected.

"Everyone that I've spoken to and this makes a lot of sense to me has said that Obsessive Compulsions develop when you feel that you don't have control in your everyday life, you develop an area of life that you can and have to have control over".

As she is telling me about her compulsive obsession, or obsessive compulsion, for this almost out-of-body experience she has every time she goes to Costco, I think I observe a slight tremor — almost as though she's going through some sort of withdrawal.

Iannotti credits her father, a lifelong gardener, with passing along "an obsessive compulsion for heirloom vegetables".

But is this – I'll concede borderline obsessive – compulsion to photograph food inconsiderate, and should restaurants forbid it?

"The First Bacilli of the disease of our age," Marlette calls the Clintons, "where narcissism meets obsessive compulsion".

Nor does its opposite extreme, hypergraphia, also known as "the midnight disease," in which sufferers feel an obsessive compulsion to write.

You either have the obsessive compulsion to participate in a live event, or you must be able to develop the self-control to find the off switch.

Kanye West's obsessive compulsion to attend fashion shows has taken him from the obscurest of avant garde collections in Paris to the commercial runways of Milan to the, uh, er, the 9 a.m. presentation by Tory Burch at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday.

A psychologist who observed her late in her life, G. Stanley Hall, thought that there was something pathological about her curiosity; and Gitter suggests that Laura may have developed, as a consequence of the scarlet fever, a condition of obsessive compulsion known as pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococci.