Sentence examples for obsessive desire from inspiring English sources

This is a book about obsession - Greer's obsessive desire (need) to find out more about her now dead father.

His obsessive desire to explain makes his thoughts sometimes seem to proceed algorithmically.

(Berkley, $7.50). A woman's obsessive desire for complete privacy is threatened by the ultimate computer.

And so this obsessive desire to compare gets increasingly desperate and meaningless.

In addition to Truisms, phrases from Arno (1996), a litany of obsessive desire, were shown.

Instead of romance, she sings about obsessive desire; after a breakup, she snarls her anger or bewails unbearable loneliness.

Selfless leadership, driven by a near-obsessive desire to create, will almost always lead to good things.

But at bottom, what drives the president's toxic relationship with the nation's most populous state is this: his near-obsessive desire to be seen as a winner.

So, when a hoax news report in 2014 claimed that Selfitis was a new mental health problem defined by the American Psychiatric Association as "the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one's self and post them on social media", many people believed it.

Geula considered him to be primitive, bestial, ugly, and wretched, yet he aroused an obsessive sexual desire in her.

He does not care what the consequences are as long as his obsessive, insatiable desire for adulation is fulfilled.