Obsessiveness

Bryant had five pillars to channelling his inner mamba: fearlessness, relentlessness, passion, obsessiveness and resilience.

Even as Tory MPs fret about the detail of Brexit with the obsessiveness of 1980s teenagers playing Dungeons & Dragons, they know that this social cost is the clear and present danger to their political survival.

The drama and the obsessiveness of Elio’s inner monologue, while at face value seemingly exaggerated to the highest degree, was actually refreshingly real.

Gustavo Perednik has argued that what he terms "Judeophobia" has a number of unique traits which set it apart from other forms of racism, including permanence, depth, obsessiveness, irrationality, endurance, ubiquity, and danger.