Sentence examples for obsessively from inspiring English sources

Teachers who obsessively police school uniforms might also do well to bear this in mind.

While he was well enough the couple went sailing together, and when he was too weak for that he painted obsessively, on cardboard and brown parcel paper, an old bait box, and pieces of china.

Related: The decay of women is obsessively charted.

He seems to have loved the pictures he bought, collecting, for example, the paintings of Carlo Maratta almost obsessively, even though the 17th-century Italian's ranking was in sharp decline and now he's almost forgotten.

Carlyle makes these transitions look easy, but the lengths to which he will go in pursuit of what he refers to gravely as ‘truth’ or ‘honesty’ are often extreme, bordering on obsessively weird.

In this room, a younger rabbit goes around obsessively saying goodbye to everything around it – socks, combs, sinister bowls of nondescript mush – in a manner that suggests it never intends to wake up again.

Titian lived in Venice, where Shakespeare set his tragedy Othello, and like Othello, the husband in the painting is so obsessively jealous he is about to commit murder.

"But then he doesn't go back to obsessively checking the computer or rewriting the speech, or worrying about what [rightwing journalist Matthew d'Ancona] really means.

Elected mayors were now central, almost obsessively so, to Osborne's initiative.

In the city centre, the Jekyll and Hyde serves cocktails in anything but glasses in its Alice in Wonderland-themed garden and obsessively well-stocked gin parlour.

It's basically the story of a writer obsessively waiting for the Queen Mother to die so that he can get a movie into production.