obsessive
Example Sentences
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The lawsuit accuses Jackson of “insinuating himself” into the Cascio family by using “obsessive attention, lavish gifts, access to his celebrity lifestyle, and declarations that he loved and needed each of them.”
From Los Angeles Times
When Anna, a self-described "Heated Rivalry obsessive", watched the show it reminded her of a world she already knew - the Chinese male-male romance stories she had grown up reading.
From BBC
No other Victorian poet could have brought off such a fitful and obsessive work; no one else could have sustained such music and emotion for more than 100 pages.
The third floor surprises us with the architect’s obsessive studies of the Alps.
“I’m as obsessive about Emily Brontë as everyone else. She gets inside you.”
From Los Angeles Times
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