Their movements had a jerky, clockwork quality to them which suggested, as Davies' tangoing aesthetes didn't, a desperate adherence to the rituals of the past; a superficial, cosmetic illusion of wholeness, supported by the obsessive touching-up of their makeup.
It's an obsessive touch for a seemingly breezy waltz.
And yet after many years away Morris has been ineluctably drawn back to the shack where Zachariah has long lived and now dotes on his brother with an almost maternal devotion, tending to their daily rituals — Zachariah's post-work foot bath, the humble dinner, the reading of the Bible before bed — with obsessive care perhaps touched by contrition.
He has an obsessive comedy touch.
In addition to experiencing jerks and blinks, he grew extremely anxious in unfamiliar situations, and began to show obsessive-compulsive behaviors, repeatedly straightening, counting, and touching things — gaps in the floorboards, or bricks in the wall.
The movie, never touching experience, was given over to Tarantino's obsessive love of schlock action genres.
Avoid touching it, otherwise you will start to be obsessive about your hair.
There are glimmers, as when Charlotte shows us Branwell's collection of feathers — obsessive, true to place, touched with poetry.
She became obsessed with germs, thinking that she contaminated everything she touched, engaged in frequent and obsessive hand washing and obsessively checked locks on windows and doors.
The display touched me: a small obsessive-aesthetic moment in the chaos.
He sounds – to me, at least – lugubrious, pained, a touch obsessive.
