‘This game gives me a compulsion to my already obsessive nature to keep playing and to kill everyone who isn't me.’
‘It is a relief, he says, to confess to the private consultant that the refuge he once sought in art for his depression and regimented obsessive nature, he now finds in the bottle.’
‘I am particularly concerned about the obsessive nature of this defendant, and whether he represents a danger to women in general.’
‘With his eloquence and fluent knowledge of art history, he speaks of da Vinci's obsessive nature.’
‘His hair and beard were testimony to his fastidious nature and obsessive preening.’
‘Delaney owns pieces of clubs and bars around the city, and has an obsessive nature.’
‘The obsessive and compulsive nature of our relationship was alarming to us.’
‘Wilkinson has talked greatly in this newspaper about the art of kicking and we get the impression of a rather solitary, obsessive nature: a man who wants perfection.’
‘Eventually, if you persevere, the obsessive nature of the process yields unexpectedly beautiful results.’
‘Up to about 1918 he painted scenes of nature that have an obsessive, macabre quality, often based on childhood memories and fantasies.’
‘Unless you have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of American politics, it is unlikely that you will have heard of Mr Shrum.’
‘We could've seen why Sara is so stubborn, or gotten some further insight into Hitchens' obsessive nature.’
‘The amusing thing here, of course, is that his character in the film is clearly an obsessive, neurotic control freak who also teaches his cat to use a flush toilet.’
‘Paul's an independent filmmaker whose unbridled ambition is rivaled only by his equally unchecked obsessive nature.’
‘After decades of Marxist-Leninist education, Hungarians of all classes are showing an obsessive interest in their aristocratic forebears.’
‘These have been the years in which the explosive growth of both economies leapt from being something British business thought worth watching to an obsessive interest.’
‘Everyday life can be a terrifying ordeal for the autistic, who struggle to grasp what is happening around them and often retreat into ritual or obsessive behaviour.’
‘Those who had watched the most television were more easily distracted and confused, more impulsive or restless, and more prone to obsessive behaviour.’
‘Long ago I read he had an obsessive interest in toads.’
‘It is true that the great but balding one has never been very good at multi-tasking, but that probably explains his obsessive behaviour.’