obsessiveness

It's pretty clear, at least to me, that most of your obsessiveness is applied constructively toward doing an ambitious job well and growing the imprint.

Interview and a Starred Review Lou Anders 2007

In any creative walk of life, a certain obsessiveness to your craft is absolutely essential.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Jasper Fforde 2007

If we're going to talk about "obsessiveness," then games are all really just variations on a Pavlovian theme, and there isn't much new under the sun no matter what we do.

Farmville = 56 million 2009

Most of us don't have the mental energy to keep up that kind of obsessiveness for long, though.

"The happiness of the mother is far, far more important in shaping the life of the child than whether or not the child was breast-fed as a baby." Ann Althouse 2009

Ahh, that makes sense-- have the companies and developers themselves stop using the words that feed the negative reactions . . . unfortunately, gamers themselves probably won't, as there is a sort of cachet to being a "hardcore" gamer something which often, to me at least, indicates a kind of obsessiveness about the game in question.

The air that we breathe 2008

You can post about Bishop Allen all you want 'cause tracks like "Click Click Click Click" invoke that kind of obsessiveness where you just want to listen to it over and over again until you find something else to get feverishly stuck in your head.

Click click click click camera (Music (For Robots)) 2006

Medically mediated conception is also time-consuming and encourages a kind of obsessiveness ...

The Varieties of Reproductive Experience 2005

Medically mediated conception is also time-consuming and encourages a kind of obsessiveness ...

The Varieties of Reproductive Experience 2005

Yeah, sure, she's doing a critique, but there is something wretchedly self-defeating about performing this kind of obsessiveness with the flaws of her own body!

Not much good Jenny Davidson 2004

Yeah, sure, she's doing a critique, but there is something wretchedly self-defeating about performing this kind of obsessiveness with the flaws of her own body!

Archive 2004-11-01 Jenny Davidson 2004