compulsiveness

• “That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality.”

  The Washington Post: Book World: A chess master who defeated himself

• “Despite all the ways in which we weren't alike, my parents would point out all our similarities -- the sense of humor, the obsessive compulsiveness, the hypochondria, the paranoia.”

  The Huffington Post: I Spent My Life Trying Not To Become My Brother -- So Why Was It So Hard To Let Him Go?

• “Andrew Sullivan, a friend of Hitchens, links to Pollitt and wonders about the sources of his compulsiveness, which lasted until his final, heroic days.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer

• “While gambling certainly occurs without compulsiveness or harm, just as drinking does, both carry the risk of addiction.”

  The Huffington Post: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Casinos For Kids?

• “Though you have the compulsiveness of the physical, you also have the consciousness of not being physical.”

  The Huffington Post: Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical

• “He was very affable," Marilyn Schoenbaum recalled, "but then after you got to know him, his compulsiveness would come out and drive people crazy.”

  The Washington Post: A Local Life: Irvin Leigh Matus, 69, penniless Shakespeare scholar who lived by his own design

• “What this means is that a certain amount of anxiety and OCD obsessive compulsiveness is a good thing when applied to positive lifestyle management skills.”

  The Huffington Post: Lloyd Glauberman, Ph.D.: Six Types Of 'Problem Eating' To Watch For

• “I'm thinking I need to drop some of the hobbies, including arch-singing, Bonzai gardening and motel-postcard collecting, and focus instead on just one activity -- something that I can get really good at, and that can then become an obsession elevated to an intensity of compulsiveness that will really clear the decks in terms of me having any friends.”

  The Washington Post: Birding season: No grousing or sniping

• “Mine just wait for me to flush it for them before they go and drink out of it.... wish I could teach them this trick without the compulsiveness of flushing it over and over.”

  UFies.org: Random Linkage Archives

• “When people report spending more than they meant to, it suggests a certain compulsiveness--good intentions breaking down in the course of day-to-day living.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Barrington: Even in a Recession, Many Americans Overspend

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