Sentence examples for obsessive question from inspiring English sources

And only rarely does he need actually to spell out the message of the island: 'if I can work alongside with the men who put me there, how can you refuse...' But it is not just Mandela 's island and it also offers some answer to the obsessive question among whites, including foreign businessmen: what happens after Mandela retires in 1999?

In recent years, there has been an obsessive question, whether phages are safe for use in biocontrol or therapy.

"I had existential dilemmas as young as seven, obsessive questions about my place in the world.

These prompted obsessive questions about my sexual identity, which I compulsively tried to answer by scouring my childhood memories for clues.

Some authorities also complain that the procedure for declaring a request "vexatious" is too difficult, so that it is often less time-consuming to answer what they regard as pointless or obsessive questions (possibly for example about their readiness for attack by zombies) than it would be to reject them on this basis.

So second-guess yourself and ask the big questions along with the thousands of small obsessive questions.

At their crudest they seem purely self-regarding: there to present him as an appealing type of slacker-scholar, glued to the History Channel, addicted to video-games, given to amiably flip outbursts of opinion, while also winningly obsessive over questions of micro-historical accuracy, and obsessed with his own obsessiveness.

In the light of this question, obsessive Tory spasms about Europe are revealed as a doomed attempt to re-rig the market even further in their own favour, so that the same exclusion orders that prevent Syrians and Libyans from threatening our carefully protected wealth should in future keep out over-eager Hungarians, Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians.

Whether the obsessives foster the shops or the shops foster the obsessives is a question for another day.

He was perhaps manic-depressive, without question obsessive-compulsive, and more than capable of psychologically abusing those closest to him.

Yates's work is probably most radical in its obsessive treatment of the question of gender.