1, I can very clearly understand obsessiveness, and the people who write to me see that I understand obsession and preciousness.

2, This obsessiveness has even led to violent consequences.

3, Obsessiveness is an powerful solution for physical and social problems. Unfortunately it's also a major cause of emotional problems.

4, This obsessiveness has even led to violent consequences. Last week, police in France said that they had thwarted a plot by a boy, 13, to murder his school teachers.

5, He retained that obsessiveness and excitement, never growing out of them.

6, Nearly always, good writing is the product of self-restraint, narrow concentration and obsessiveness.

7, In the same way, readers put up with unintelligibility , obsessiveness, painful truths, lies, bad grammar—if, in compensation, the writers allows them to savor rare emotions and dangerous sensations.