Sentence examples for obsessive habit from inspiring English sources

This suspicion is obviously something Mormons themselves feel keenly – hence their obsessive habit of affirming that theirs is the true, restored gospel.

Math, along with an obsessive habit of knocking on wood, provides Mona with a shaky hold on her sanity in the face of her father's decline.

This first novel conjures a world of oddities: its narrator reacts to her father's slow death by denying herself all pleasure, taking refuge in mathematics and developing an obsessive habit of knocking on wood.

Because the boy, who wound up being called Ludo, does not know the identity of his father, and because Sibylla refuses to tell him, their obsessive habit of watching and discussing Kurosawa's male-bonding masterpiece becomes central to their lives.

I did not revert to my obsessive habit of checking my email every 15 minutes but I did check more than four times in 24 hours.

The dangerous aspects are when this fine line is crossed and health becomes an obsessive habit.

Mr. Nichols went about his life — a man of strange and obsessive habits, according to neighbors.

Heading to London, Ellison was the world's top-ranked archer, and, in anticipation of a star turn, he said that he'd spent the past year ridding himself of certain obsessive habits.

A few months ago, the 30-year-old teacher decided it was time to put her nearly-obsessive habit to good use.

Capps's obsessive work habits spilled into his personal life.

For this week's Food & Drink Issue,  you can read about the utterly obsessive food habits of Gayle King, Al Michaels, Bruce Ratner and Wendy Williams.