The obsession of an idea and the continual repetition of an act are characteristics of the maniac.
Rénine realized that all these people had been living for months under the obsession of that innocence and in the certainty that an innocent man could never be executed.
The obsession of the soldier who felt that he must attack his companion (see Chapter VIII) arose from the unconscious, and those animal actions which we attribute to memory can similarly have their origins apart from consciousness.
The wish grew into anobsession and when, toward daylight, sleep came fitfully, it wove itself into the troubled pattern of her dreams.
Yet all the while that he was making his steep, uphill fight, Asa was feeling a secret disquiet growing to an obsession within him.
But suppose that as Jack recovers he comes to a realization that hisobsession has been a mistake--that your love and companionship really mean more to him than anything he can get elsewhere?
But in the great sweet air, in contact with the earth, his obsession relaxed, his ideas ceased to appear like specters.
He sought the solitude of the fields, and delivered himself up to it, drank his fill of it, like a maniac who wishes not to be disturbed by anything in the obsession of his fixed ideas.
Often she would be for a whole day under the obsession of her inept fancies.
The very misery of his life afforded him relief from the obsession of his thoughts.
I said, struggling under the mystic obsession of his intensity.
Dangerfield was left in such a state of excitement that he passed Flick in the hall literally without seeing him, his eyes absolutely blinded to objects about him, as though filled with the obsession of distant figures.
His ears heard nothing but remembered echoes, and his eyes were clouded with the obsessionof one figure, slender and supple, with the grace of an untamed animal, whose motions were like the rhythm of sweet sounds.
Gradually, the obsession which had clouded his vision began to lift from his eyes.
He had one obsession now--to destroy Adrian Fellowes, his agent for Paul Kruger in the secret places of British policy and in the house of the Partners, as it were.
For fear that anything might be lacking to prove the complete obsession of Jambudvipa by the demon of "Greek influence," Dr.
The sign of obsession is generally some mental alienation accompanied (in bad cases) by a combined trembling and restlessness of limbs, or an unaccountable swelling up of the body.
But still, notwithstanding her self-criticism, she continued under the obsessionof the uselessness of life, when everything might be dead to-morrow.
In the end, the chance of his promotion became such a morbid obsession with him that the improbable thing happened and he wrote to the director of the B.
Most of the recorded wonder-doings of Apollonius are cases of prophecy or foreseeing; of seeing at a distance and seeing the past; of seeing or hearing in vision; of healing the sick or curing cases of obsession or possession.
Menippus, whom he had freed from an obsession (iv.
She felt staggered by the responsibility of having to be strong enough for two; and as another day wore on this new preoccupation became almost as absorbing an obsession as her anger of the night before.
Her lover voiced the extreme content with his lot which had been his obsession that day.
If you had the desire to do this, you would dismiss such anobsession from your brain, you would prefer to err on the aide of justice and mercy.
Was it only a useless obsession on the part of my pioneer dad?
She regained her feet, affrighted, perceiving that this obsession of the lawyer was the more implacable that it was set in vanity and pride.
This physical condition enables one the better to understand hisobsession by the thought of death.
These nervous crises,[5] this obsession of death, are analysed with a terrible sincerity that knows neither shame nor pity.
Bunyan had an obsession of the words, "Sell Christ for this, sell him for that, sell him, sell him!
On Thursday morning the obsession of her destiny took all colour from her cheek, and her eyes were nervous.
There's something more urgent first: we must relieve Marie Fauville of her suicidal obsession by letting her know that we have discovered the criminals.
But her eyes expressed the scare of terror; and the obsession of the tragedy imparted to all her attractive personality, to her gait and to her movements, something feverish and spasmodic that was painful to look upon.
The obsessionof "the governing class" has thrust the people into the background.
Some writers find Swinburne as great a magician as ever in those poems in which he is free from the obsession of the flesh.
One must admit, of course, that the obsession of vice is strong in Villon's work.
One might say of him that there never was another poet in whom there was so much of the obsession of love and so little of the obsession of sex.
But the image of a ship was almost an obsessionwith him.
