The obsessional character of his response. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She was obsessional and she drank, with a thousand hairpins. From Wordnik.com. [Mommy, Andy and Me] Reference
It relates to obsessional attachment and it relates to pedophilia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference
It seems like the product of an obsessional kind of misguided anger. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009] Reference
The kind of arguments, the personalities, the obsessional quality of it. From Wordnik.com. [Cross purposes - Guardian] Reference
Four years later, you returned to the subject “in an obsessional way.”. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes Us Happy?] Reference
I mean what it would do is you don't have to be quite so obsessional over diet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2003] Reference
He eyed it without favor, but with a sort of fierce avidness almost obsessional. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
In particular, he is struck by the obsessional and vicious hatred of ... you guessed. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Slaughter's admiration for Emily Baccus bordered on the obsessional, and she knew it. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
~ Too many parties and a freaked out brain -- This is a story about obsessional thought. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 12/21/07] Reference
Since my teenage years I am now 29, I've mostly been battling with purely obsessional OCD. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Look at John Mark Karr, who had this whole obsessional belief system about JonBenet Ramsey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009] Reference
He said nothing, which was another odd thing because he was practically obsessional about money. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Johannesburg, explained the meaning of race as "a national neurosis of the obsessional variety". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
This kind of stalking is simple obsessional behavior that's usually triggered by a specific event. From Wordnik.com. [While Other People Sleep]
I mean she seemed intact on the surface but she had an obsessional belief system about her love rival. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009] Reference
His detective has all the right credentials: obsessional behaviour, a maverick bent and a drink problem. From Wordnik.com. [After Wallander: a new generation of Scandinavian detectives takes over] Reference
Or is it rather the case that denouncing obsessional anticommunism proves you must yourself be a Communist?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Attack on I.F. Stone': An Exchange] Reference
No wonder Alex wrote "in praise of Andrew Sullivan", he mirrors his obsessional bigotry of conservative America. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
I think it is indeed because of my support for Israel, on which subject he appears to be unbalanced and obsessional. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Is my destiny somehow inextricably linked with this obsessional attention seeker of a woman who once called me "crazy"?. From Wordnik.com. [At home with the Darbyshires] Reference
Goodbye to your tired old means-testing, your obsessional fears and worn out ideas have, in the end, reduced me to tears. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Income] Reference
Syphilophobia is a classic form of obsessional anxiety, frequently encountered and described in the psychiatric literature. From Wordnik.com. [Pox Americana] Reference
The array of options are increasing; from obsessional diet and exercise, to the knife, injectables, lipo; it goes on and on. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Fish: How Obnoxious Are the Voices in Your Head?] Reference
With his glance upon the psaltery stick, a dim notion of accounting filtered curiously into his mind and became obsessional. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
He was an obsessional conspiracy theorist and tens of millions of people paid their -- paid the price of their lives for that. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From] Reference
Gacy, who is nearly obsessional about the evidence against him, has accumulated 20,000 pages of documents relating to his case. From Wordnik.com. [The Tortuous Tale Of A Serial Killer] Reference
Those who suffer from a love-obsessional delusion may also suffer from other delusional disorders — schizophrenia, for example. From Wordnik.com. [While Other People Sleep]
It was, we should remember, 26 hours ahead of the pope's death, but to me it's an illustration of the obsessional quality of this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2005] Reference
Troblum had managed to acquire custodianship over a hundred years ago, following a somewhat obsessional twenty-seven year campaign. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The few close neighbors they'd had had long since moved away, and the new ones avoided her, unable to cope with her obsessional loops. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
I almost adjusted Virtual Currencies down to Copper where they were in Plat, but that would have just been a bit obsessional and geeky. From Wordnik.com. [November 2006] Reference
The Lazarus act on old buildings began, in my no doubt obsessional mind, with the provision of clean dry air, unobtrusively circulating. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Many parts of the text, however, are hard to read: repetitious, obsessional, simultaneously searing and boring, as mad people often are. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference
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