Sentence examples for obsessive fixation from inspiring English sources

This spiralled until the obsessive fixation shifted on to one golden, glittering ambition – to become an Ironman.

In the last year or two, an obsessive fixation on getting sleep — not just any sleep, but good sleep — has crept into our public consciousness.

In an eight-year-old review of "Fearless," Robert Christgau notes the obsessive fixation on storybook tropes that marked Swift's early songwriting.

The obsessive fixation on a mediocre norm has led us to stigmatize some children's skills as "remedial" and to simply consider more advanced students elitists.

Investors around the world had awaited his speech with an almost obsessive fixation in recent days, as what began as a panic in subprime mortgages for people with weak credit continued to freeze up lending on scores of other fronts, from "jumbo" mortgages to borrowers with good credit to a growing number of billion-dollar leveraged buyouts.

Investors around the world had awaited his speech with an almost obsessive fixation in recent days, as what began as a panic in subprime mortgages for people with weak credit continued to freeze up lending on scores of other fronts, from jumbo mortgages to borrowers with good credit to a growing number of billion-dollar leveraged buyouts.

The latter takes bipartisanship from a mere fetish to an obsessive compulsive fixation, as if the legislator was elected not to judge policy, write legislation or represent constituents, but to only hand out his vote if the other party hands out theirs.

In this context, the nine detailed pages devoted to the retired Shankly carrying out household chores ("Bill held the cloth over the water in the bucket. Bill wrung out the cloth") achieve a perfect mimesis of the condition of an obsessive seeking a replacement fixation.

This included obsessive, ritualistic, stereotypic behaviour, fixation on certain objects, resistance to change in routines and echolalia.

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

He blames his fixation on obsessive-compulsive disorder, which he was diagnosed with 13 years ago.