What is "obsessives"

Usage examples of "obsessives".

Some were predictable: road obsessives who used the badlands and its lack of policing as an arena for their fantasies.

There is no analysis, or self-awareness, or mental rigour going on at all, because obsessives are denied any kind of perspective on their own passion.

And in a sense these two desires – at first glance incomprehensibly inconsistent, I would imagine, to those without equivalent fixations – characterise obsessives and encapsulate their dilemma.

People like Neil Kaas, a Luton fan who took me and my half-brother to watch Arsenal at Kenilworth Road as his guest in the days when Luton’s ban on away fans was in operation, are obsessives with all traces of timidity or self-doubt removed.

Dorotea's slow burn is being accelerated, Cayce suspects, by her perception that Cayce's MA-1 trumps any attempt at minimalism, the Rickson's having been created by Japanese obsessives driven by passions having nothing at all to do with anything remotely like fashion.

But among the fakes, obsessives, and lunatics was there perhaps a man who instinctively knew the route to the Imajica?

Lines of them were bent over Mydak machines, concentrating on the concave screens and mechanically palming the rollers, hanging in like obsessives as the machines nibbled away at their credit.

Lines of them were bent over Mydak machines, concentrating on the concave screens and mechanically palm­ing the rollers, hanging in like obsessives as the machines nibbled away at their credit.

I had the impression of shadows, ranked behind him in the electronic dark, as if Peter was just a front for a whole network of densely interconnected, like-minded obsessives, all working for ends I didn’t understand.

Like most obsessives, they were trying to hide the thing that most concerned them, and they probably thought they were doing a good job of it.