What is "obsessiveness"

Usage examples of "obsessiveness".

What Wells failed to grasp is that man’s intelligence has resulted in a certain lopsidedness, a narrow obsessiveness that makes us calculating and ruthless.

The persistence that enabled Columbus to discover America was partly the sheer manic obsessiveness of the typical Right Man.

The obsessiveness appeals to me, too, because it means that if I can get you over to my side, you'll be one hell of a gladiator.

The job was being done with the obsessiveness of men who knew that careful preparation could fractionally tip the casual scales of life and death in their favour.

He was the obvious suspect, with the means, the motive, and the opportunity to have killed her, but murder is an aberrant deed, often born of passions distorted by obsessiveness and torment.

Franzen returns over and over again in these essays (and with the obsessiveness of a child who has just lost his first tooth) is that serious literature no longer matters in America, and that writers of it have lost their audience.

She had met no man strong enough, or kind enough, to withstand the intensity of her gaze, her obsessiveness, her quickness to anger, and her frequent pain-driven withdrawals into herself.