What's the difference between obsessive and unyielding?

Obsessive


Definition:

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.

Unyielding


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
  • (2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
  • (3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
  • (4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
  • (5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
  • (6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
  • (7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
  • (8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
  • (9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
  • (10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
  • (11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
  • (12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
  • (13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
  • (14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
  • (15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
  • (16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
  • (17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
  • (18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
  • (19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
  • (20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.