(n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
(2) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(3) As a young teenager I was obsessed with sex: to be held in a man's arms would confirm that I was a woman.
(4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(5) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
(6) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
(7) The authors report four patients with disabling obsessive thoughts who responded in dramatic fashion to antidepressant medication.
(8) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
(9) So do the IEA's obsessions just happen to coincide with those of the cigarette firms?
(10) Atropine-comatose therapy was performed in 18 patients with schizophrenia and disorders in the framework of an obsessive-syndrome.
(11) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
(12) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
(13) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
(14) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(15) You described it as being an obsession," the judge said.
(16) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(17) Michael Philpott's obsession with Lisa Willis was nothing to do with you.
(18) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(19) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
(20) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.
Passion
Definition:
(n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
(n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
(n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
(n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
(n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.
(n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.
(v. t.) To give a passionate character to.
(v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Example Sentences:
(1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(2) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
(3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(4) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(5) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(6) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(7) It is worth it, however, because I passionately believe in what social workers do, and I want to share that passion as widely as I can.
(8) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
(9) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(10) We have never inspired passion, just a little bit of fear and respect.
(11) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(12) Despite his ill health, Abbado's musical passion was in evidence until the very end, friends said.
(13) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(14) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(15) "I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Barclays This season LifeSkills created with Barclays have teamed up with Tinie Tempah and the Premier League to give young people the chance to fulfil their passions and work at a range of famous football clubs and music venues.
(17) That in turn led to Pratchett’s own passionate involvement with the Orangutan Foundation.
(18) Her maiden speech in parliament celebrated the diversity of her beloved Yorkshire constituency, and passionately made the case that there is more that unites us than divides us.
(19) Twombly's work sold for millions and ignited the passions of followers.
(20) There is no better political passion killer than Labour's Zero-Based Review .