obsessionally

"Very exciting, obsessionally involved, very willing to cry one moment and be funny the next.

The Blacks are obsessionally complicated about themselves.

'I've got work to do-back there,' Seward said obsessionally.

People affected by an eating disorder, however, find they're totally absorbed in their eating, thinking about it almost obsessionally between meals.

Normally obsessionally dignified storks become instant hooligans.

He composed obsessionally.

It was obsessionally hostile to trade unionism and Arthur McIvor has written:

The obsessionally paralyzed thinker was met with responses so irrational that emotional upset made it impossible to Therapeutic Dsrufftwn 89 hold back any longer.

"Very slowly, obsessionally, like a throbbing melody jumbled in a dream, V N's words keep whirling round and round my head."

Cooper's conclusion is that houseproud housewives are 'abnormal' in the sense that their behaviour has something in common with that of obsessionally ill people.

Realizing that he was merely going over and over, obsessionally, frustrations about which he could do nothing, he turned over restlessly and tried to sleep again.

Weighing on a weekly basis reduces the likelihood that people will weigh themselves obsessionally every day and reassures the women with bulimia that weight does not necessarily go up when they eat three meals a day.

This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway's films: that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director - and that is a tall order - can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all.