What is "possessiveness"

Usage examples of "possessiveness".

When he rematerialized on board Equinox, sure enough the sensation of uncertainty flowed completely away and that old possessiveness replaced it, as if he were suddenly filled with purpose.

No sooner did this dawn on Mota Baba than he saw an arm extending from the front seat gripping the ponytail of the person in the back seat, tearing it off violently and in all possessiveness and merriment fixing it on its own head.

Surprise, amusement, tenderness, and the burning possessiveness that had been bothering him whenever he thought of Sacha in bed with another man.

The two of them had spent countless hours together and, in the early period of that relationship, Mano had revealed his fierce possessiveness of his new country.

There were his insane fits of rage about other mennot jealousy, but possessiveness.

An animal behaviorist would probably say that this possessiveness was just the instinctive response of her biological clock, so much more keenly tuned in animals, to my longer-than-normal absence on these mornings.

The first was the unmistakable possessiveness and resentment that he had seen in Tony Wainwrights eyes.

Riley was aware of the possessiveness of those words and for the first time he realized that Caralie's existence might change the neat and orderly world he'd built around his daughter.

As soon as he had the thought, his mind rebelled against it with angry possessiveness.

Con roared her name with a most reas suring possessiveness in his tone.

On many worlds it is well known, though on others the information is suppressed, that biological realities exist, such as dominance and submission, strength and vulnerability, reciprocal needs, jealousy, possessiveness, protectiveness, sexual dimorphism and its meaning, claimancy and command, behavioral genetics, readinesses to respond to sign stimuli, longings for completeness, the desire to belong to, and yield to, the master animal, and such.

He looked at the great city, with no tie to any view or usage others had made of it, it was not a city of gangsters or panhandlers or derelicts or whores, it was the greatest industrial achievement in the history of man, its only meaning was that which it meant to him, there was a personal quality in his sight of it, a quality of possessiveness and of unhesitant perception, as if he were seeing it for the first time—or the last.