Sentence examples for of the compulsive from inspiring English sources

And what of the self-surveillance of the compulsive social media user who posts innumerable selfies?

One is the slow erosion of the compulsive secrecy that has always surrounded security operations.

His gaze is direct, with none of the sidelong furtiveness of the compulsive masturbator.

"I've got a bank of therapists working on that one," said Joseph Westerfield, one of the compulsive duo.

Five years later, Mr. Basso caught sight of the Compulsive Traveller in Puerto Cortes, a banana port in Honduras.

I wonder if his own experience of the compulsive art of cooking helped him understand his wife's frustration at not being able to express herself in those years?

These aspects might therefore contribute to the compulsive nature of itch and scratching (2).

As a courtroom thriller with a firm psychological base, it is a work of nonfiction with the compulsive readability of a novel.

Correction: An earlier version of this story conflated the compulsive grooming disorders of nail-biting and hair-pulling.

Edward Looney, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, is also a recovering compulsive gambler.

The Spanish translated version of the German Compulsive Buying Scale (GCBS; 13) was employed to evaluate compulsive buying.