On the one hand, it's nice not to have the press obsessively measuring American success or failure in terms of the body count. |
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Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak. |
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The first, which he repeated almost obsessively in all manner of formulations, is that society is a moral reality through and through. |
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I mention it because, in the realm of watercolor, American painters use this made-to-order gray excessively and obsessively. |
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Let's face it, when it comes to obsessively hiding your property, isn't that what leylandii is for? |
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Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir. |
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So we obsessively analyze this epic Homerian battle, trying to find a moment of heroism, a brief glimpse to help salve our morally guilty wounds. |
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In fact, as my colleagues will confirm, whatever I do, I tend to do it obsessively. |
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He's a detail man, obsessively fastidious to the point that he still handles the steady-cam himself, to get those shots just right. |
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While the setting evoked an escapist fantasy, the conversation dwelt obsessively on the harsh, inescapable realities of the moment. |
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They were raised by an obsessively house-proud mother and a violent drunkard of a father. |
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Characters speak in unison, repeat phrases obsessively, deliver lines supine on the floor, break up sentences illogically, or mumble sotto voce. |
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He goes through phases where he focuses obsessively on one particular site. |
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After an hour of obsessively checking my email, it sent me an address, phone number and more. |
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Throughout it all, he has followed his passion and painted obsessively in every conscious moment. |
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But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs. |
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I listened obsessively to the most recent song my ex-boyfriend wrote about me. |
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She worried obsessively that her four-year struggle would destroy her family's finances. |
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But we're also obsessively clean, showering once or more every day and spraying, dusting, and scrubbing our homes to spotlessness. |
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For months, they focus on themselves obsessively, selfishly — mileage, splits, shoes, shin splints, carbs. |
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An obsessively tidy man, he clears up after Elizabeth cooks. |
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But he was obsessively formal and had about as much liveliness as a salted cod, and Bahzell simply couldn't warm to him as he had to Charrow or Sir Terrian. |
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To be an addict, by definition, is to habituate to something compulsively or obsessively. |
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We thus glide over the smooth surfaces, delve into the dark crevices and stop to consider the obsessively repeated pebble-like forms. |
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Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman. |
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Whether they practice obsessively or indolently, their expectations never materialize. |
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Skipper began obsessively painting the water hole for which his father had been the hereditary custodian. |
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He remains an obsessively hard worker, a quality to which he doubtless owes his perennial success. |
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Lady Jayne When Jayne Seymour Fonda was born on December 21, 1937, her father, Henry, obsessively snapped photos of his baby. |
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Or was she woodshedding: a serious musician, diligently, obsessively, honing her skills? |
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She played canasta obsessively and seemed to have endless folding tables. |
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Teachers who obsessively police school uniforms might also do well to bear this in mind. |
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Instead, a budget appeared that was obsessively focussed on fiscal prudence. |
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Cognitive or mental: difficulty concentrating, confusion, sense that the deceased person is present, and thinking about them obsessively. |
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It would be easy to focus obsessively on all the pitfalls and prejudices that undoubtedly landmined this path of good intentions. |
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People often compensate for their inability on one dynamic by playing obsessively on another. |
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What we do not have in the world is several dozen countries on which the United States is obsessively fixated as it is with Cuba. |
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As we have noted, intelligence is traditionally, even obsessively, guarded about protecting its sources and methods. |
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The fellow with the cell phone, ironically named Virgil, chats obsessively on it with a number of intimates, including his former girlfriend Alice. |
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Artists like Mick Jagger and Van Morrison obsessively revered and imitated african-american blues and rock musicians. |
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And Derek grew up playing hardcore but he was also like listening to Belinda Carlisle obsessively. |
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After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read. |
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Never mind that China obsessively focuses on feathering its own economic nest, often at the expense of poor nations. |
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I imagine for a week or two I'll carry around a stack of index cards bound with a bulldog clip, and read obsessively looking for the latest life hacks. |
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There are about 650 little paper flowers obsessively tacked to the wall, referencing a rose window, all kinds of associations, but also creating an abstract form. |
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It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns. |
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A handsome nerd, he loves computers and gadgets, but also obsessively fills tattered scrapbooks with sketches, old postcards and sentimental family snaps. |
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The best driver of his generation has long seemed like a parody of Teutonic self-discipline, utterly ruthless, spookily calm and obsessively single-minded. |
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Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts. |
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Our lives, I obsessively told myself, were twisted together by fate. |
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To keep problems and surprises to a minimum, the wanderlust team obsessively prepares. |
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He dipped all the glasses in hot water, obsessively cleaning each one. |
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I've been able to obsessively check my email six times in a weekend. |
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Tiny, rice-shaped orzo absorbs liquid and flavor much like rice, but it doesn't need to be stirred obsessively for a perfectly al dente, creamy result. |
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The split is without apparent conflict, but nevertheless, when Anne-Marie learns that Alex has a new girlfriend, she becomes obsessively jealous, ultimately paranoic. |
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In this room, a younger rabbit goes around obsessively saying goodbye to everything around it – socks, combs, sinister bowls of nondescript mush – in a manner that suggests it never intends to wake up again. |
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Soshana has spent almost all of her life in cities, in which the modern art scene distilled, such as London, Paris and New York and she obsessively dedicated her life to painting. |
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Democratic public security policies should emphasize before-the-fact crime prevention addressing the causes of crime and not focus obsessively on after-the-fact law enforcement. |
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One of the difficulties we have also with the Conservatives' approach to criminal justice is that they obsessively focus on the back end of the problem. |
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Her granddaughter remembers her as a frail, stooping, ghost-like figure flitting about the house, obsessively neat, endlessly crocheting doilies and antimacassars. |
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Charge in the reactive mind can often be noticed by the phenomenon that a person has to play obsessively on certain dynamics, or doesn't have any access at all to others. |
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She was obsessively timid outside the family circle to the point of turning her back on her partners in conversation without saying a word. |
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Immediately, messy Olive regrets her decision, as obsessively clean germaphobe and hypochondriac Florence begins to drive Olive to distraction. |
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It would only become a problem if you started worrying about it or you were doing it so obsessively that it got in the way of real life. |
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It is, rather, an obsessively accurate procedural-cum-psychological study of people whose own obsessions with the case damaged their lives. |
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Su says she has obsessively kept track of every bug-eyed, mishapen, awkward, or just plain wrong piece of taxidermy that she was able to find. |
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Yet Roth began as an epigone of Max Bill, obsessively perfect in every way. |
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What he loves doing is exposing the absurdity of the material he obsessively collects, relentlessly mocking the vacuities of minor celebrities and the pretensions of directors. |
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We are accustomed to Fincher's heroes being as obsessively smart as he is, if lacking his overarching patience, whereas Nick remains, to put it gently, a lunkhead. |
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The perforated edges look nice as well as making it easier to obsessively position three or more stamps so they are spaced equidistantly, and horizontally and vertically aligned. |
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Both writers are obsessively interested in wealth and high-born privilege. |
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If the teacher finds himself obsessively worried or disturbed by one student, he should suspect that the troublemaker is not really there to learn but to cause as much havoc as possible. |
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Titian lived in Venice, where Shakespeare set his tragedy Othello, and like Othello, the husband in the painting is so obsessively jealous he is about to commit murder. |
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Schiele drew fluidly and obsessively from the human figure, presenting nakedness in a radical way that still feels illicit and is still capable of shocking. |
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He's interested in the transportive properties of groove, but also in alienation and drift, the aspects of a head trip that involve obsessively burrowing inward. |
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For instance, there is orthorexia, in which patients become obsessively preoccupied with eating healthy foods, eventually morphing into anorexia. |
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The deeply romantic and the obsessively pedantic are both part of my image of a scientific hero. |
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While he was well enough the couple went sailing together, and when he was too weak for that he painted obsessively, on cardboard and brown parcel paper, an old bait box, and pieces of china. |
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Related: The decay of women is obsessively charted. |
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He seems to have loved the pictures he bought, collecting, for example, the paintings of Carlo Maratta almost obsessively, even though the 17th-century Italian's ranking was in sharp decline and now he's almost forgotten. |
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Carlyle makes these transitions look easy, but the lengths to which he will go in pursuit of what he refers to gravely as truth or honesty are often extreme, bordering on obsessively weird. |
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With superhuman effort it regains its tempestuous power, repeating the opening leap and trill obsessively until it becomes unbearable and crashes defiantly to its end. |
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As Mr Grosch has already said, we can adopt as many wonderful, detailed, even obsessively detailed, rules as we like, but if they cannot be enforced then they are just words. |
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The New York gossip columns trailed her obsessively, and still could not find out how old she was. Time, however, also trailed her, with his ghastly wrinkled face and his sallow hue that co-ordinated with no bathrooms. |
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To be obsessively focused on getting the deficit down as quickly as possible is not the right thing to do. |
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He obsessively communicates with his deceased wife via paranormal messages. |
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In them, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. |
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Bridget, now 51, has two kids, a toyboy and, as well as obsessively charting her weight, now diarises her number of Twitter followers and her kids' headlice. |
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Hector collects things obsessively, anything at all really, from stamps, seashells, and paintings of ships in port to swizzle sticks, corks, and Croatian aphorisms. |
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In her first solo exhibition, Barthelson exhibits selected pieces from three related bodies of work that have been her creative focus, obsessively, the past two years or so. |
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Various reasons prompt me to encourage students to creatively position their questions, rather than to obsessively focus on the pursuit of counterintuitive findings. |
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