Sentence examples for obsessive practices from inspiring English sources

The tics occupy the same place in me as other obsessive practices in my life, like writing, a daily impulse I haven't been able to shake off for longer than the oldest of my noises.

We hypothesized that, if CP would activate similar brain regions as controls for both moderate and very difficult tasks, his special exceptional abilities could rather be explained by neuroplastic changes as a result of obsessive practice than by unusual mental strategies and/or neurocognitive mechanisms.

What sets it apart from other games of the genre, however, is that it doesn't offer a blanket reward to this kind of obsessive practicing.

In his 1907 essay "Zwangshandlungen und Religionsübungen" ("Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices," later translated as "Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices") Freud had already contended that obsessional neuroses are private religious systems and religions themselves no more than the obsessional neuroses of mankind.

Petra Haden has been practicing her obsessive take on a-cappella music for the past decade.

By Ben Greenman Petra Haden has been practicing her obsessive take on a-cappella music for the past decade.

"But I also knew that I wanted to be the best I could be, so I became obsessive about lessons and practice".

In fact, I'm doing the opposite of what he suggests to the obsessive worriers in his practice (who, by the way, have not given up old phobias, but merely placed them on the back burner).

"Babyface" is about a man practicing his obsessive love for a celebrity by manipulating her image on a TV recording.

Even worse, in some schools weeks of valuable classroom time are wasted giving practice standardized tests (and tests to practice for the practice standardized tests) so obsessive administrators can track how the students are doing.

He frequently outraged his Bulls teammates during practices with his obsessive demands to play harder and better.