obsessive

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"But the medication gives you a break from those obsessive feelings and lets you live in reality for a second. It helped me realise I don't need to be in pain to make music."

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Perry’s most recent feature, a documentary called “Videoheaven,” is a delightfully obsessive film essay about the role that video stores once played in our collective consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

“Starving, to me, started to feel like an economic choice that just became congruent with those aesthetic and obsessive choices around food,” she explained.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

Savouri believes the focus of capital markets on this one data point is borderline obsessive and has bred an industry of forecasters.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer