Most people who bite their nails don't fit in this category, which is only comprised by "a very small minority of people". NPR points out that "pathological grooming" behaviors -- when normal grooming turns uncontrollable -- and OCD are similar in that they both involve doing a certain behavior to the extreme.
In 376 Valens authorized the starving masses to enter Thrace; but, being exploited and mistreated by the officials, they soon turned to uncontrollable pillaging.
The best I can say is that what with race, sex, calvinism, housing, the kind of violent, anarchic, hostility-breeding pattern of all my life - a pattern which, immediately one discovers that it has turned inward and become uncontrollable, then seems invested with the power to kill - I did not know who I was..."...
Minutes later, the trickle turned into a uncontrollable gush, prompting O'Grady to Google her name.
When the world is turned upside down by uncontrollable violence, people tend to look inward, at themselves, not at the usual.
In under 20 seconds on Twitter I learned the truth and my panic turned to rage -- uncontrollable 4 letter word rage.
He plays Bruce Banner – the brilliant scientist who turns into the uncontrollable colossus Hulk when angered – as a man afraid of himself.
Many Saudi and Qatari officials now fear that the fighting in Syria is awakening deep sectarian animosities and, barring such intervention, could turn into an uncontrollable popular jihad with consequences far more threatening to Arab governments than the Afghan war of the 1980s.
Such a lack of spatial concordance between morphological and functional signal would in turn lead to uncontrollable errors of the PVE correction.
Sentencing a landlord who was convicted in 1989 of hiring an arsonist to set fire to a Brooklyn building he owned to collect insurance and drive away rent-stabilized tenants, Judge McLaughlin said, "Somewhere down in the root cellar of his mind, some inner demons took control of that desire and turned it into consuming, rampant, uncontrollable greed".
