Sentence examples for pathological aversion from inspiring English sources

I've always had an almost pathological aversion to joining one.

The problem was not the syllabus, so much as the pathological aversion most British have to speaking a second language.

By the same token, a pretty invidious connection suggests itself between the relative technical poverty of English footballers and their pathological aversion to playing abroad.

Mr McCain represents cleanness in every respect, from financing of campaigns to an almost pathological aversion to lying, even to journalists.

She's a woman with a pathological aversion to responsibility, yet she's a livewire and so blindly self-centred as to be almost awe-inspiring.

An almost pathological aversion to commas makes his book much harder reading than it should be, and the amount of repetition suggests that he assumes no great intelligence in his readers.

"Too many Virginians fought for too long for equal representation for our attorney general to put his near-pathological aversion to government ahead of their civil rights by removing the safeguards that ensure the integrity of our political system".

Experimental psychologists have long documented pathological "loss aversion" – where we pay more attention to what we've lost than what we've gained.

For MDD versus comorbid MDD/GAD (Table  4) hopelessness/suicidality, risk aversion, rumination, social-cognitive concerns, and pathological worry determined comorbid MDD/GAD.

Because pathological gambling and drug misuse are associated with low degree of aversion to uncertainty in probabilistic choice, it is of psychopharmacological interest to examine probabilistic choice models.

In addition, the excessive doubt frequently experienced by OCD patients [ 24, 27, 28], as well as their harm avoidance, risk aversion and anticipatory anxiety [ 29], are not characteristic of pathological gamblers.