Sentences with phrase «obsessiveness in»

The filmmaker rightfully shows off a comedy nerd's obsessiveness in this two - part documentary, which boasts plenty of on - camera interviews with Shandling, as well as chats with fellow luminaries James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Sarah Silverman, Conan O'Brien, Bob Saget, and Jerry Seinfeld.

The film roams from the Upper West Side to Coney Island to Atlantic City, maintaining a lighthearted style that doesn't quite match the hints of obsessiveness in Mr. Toback's screenplay.

You can't get that great borderline obsessiveness in a team member without its coming bundled with aversion to failure.

Not exact matches

The self - obsessiveness of Manhattanites restless in the midst of prosperity reminds us a little of Woody Allen, but not much.

London's obsessiveness even carries over to the intensely rich french fries, which are brined for 96 hours in water that has been inoculated with salt and cabbage leaves to aid fermentation before they're twice - fried and served with smoked apple sauce.

The modern space could have been airlifted from Silver Lake; the baristas marry espresso - nerd obsessiveness with small - town friendliness; the coffee is roasted in - house and served in glass mugs — c» mon, the place is named for a bicycle for two.

And bettors do tend to have some things in common: a degree of sports - obsessiveness (often an athletic past cut short in college by a lack of talent), a community in which to share their betting tales (usually a fraternity house) and a little resourcefulness.

Last year, when I was spending a lot of time lurking on pregnancy forums, I was struck by the level of obsessiveness around finding out the baby's sex as early as possible in order to be able to buy the «right» newborn clothes and paint the nursery the «right» colour.

Depending on an individual's temperament, role, and workplace stressors, symptoms of anxiety take different forms: procrastination, avoidance, fatigue, irritability, fearfulness, social isolation, obsessiveness, perfectionism, or a feeling of constantly being overwhelmed — all of which result in diminished efficiency.

Everyone knows sugar should be enjoyed in moderation, but the degree of obsessiveness at play in some diets seems more unhealthy than the supposedly «bad» foods.

This means that saffron could potentially be used in place tryptophan or 5 - HTP if you score high on the low serotonin section of the amino acid questionnaire (anxiety, worry - in - the head, obsessiveness, negativity and depression, irritability, PMS, afternoon and evening cravings and insomnia) and yet do not seem to benefit from either of these two amino acids.

The singleminded fashion obsessiveness of Anna Wintour is spiked with the belle - epoque - bonkersness of Ab Fab's Patsy and housed in the body of Hercule Poirot.»

This obsessiveness will improve our skill in our chosen area but it can also cause our interests to be in direct competition with our relationships.

Make sure you block his or her profile so they don't appear in a search and to avoid the obsessiveness that results when you check to see when they last logged on or if they've deactivated their profile.

Gaunt, permanently sweaty, face covered with stubble, eyes bloodshot, speed - rapping his way into trouble, Stiller convincingly portrays the obsessiveness and desperation of a man in way over his head.

Within this framework, he then adds some stimulating layers all his own, many of them having to do, as in Hamlet, with the modern world's technological obsessiveness.

Hyperactive dogs can prove to be too trying for pet owners but their obsessiveness and high level of energy can be put to good use in aiding conservation work.

The way Alice Neel rides the edge of something primitive in her work, the physicalness of her process, her alternately agitated and mangy surfaces, her breathtaking brushstrokes, and the hypersensitive obsessiveness of her portraits suggest Neel ranks among the greatest American painters of the 20th century and merits more than a floor of the Whitney.

In some, the empty squares of graph paper show through; the obsessiveness of coloring in the grids, coupled with the unrefined material, has a lovely, humanizing effecIn some, the empty squares of graph paper show through; the obsessiveness of coloring in the grids, coupled with the unrefined material, has a lovely, humanizing effecin the grids, coupled with the unrefined material, has a lovely, humanizing effect.

Special interest in contemporary painting, glyphs, music, color field, buddha mind, minimalism, playfulness and encyclopaedic obsessiveness.

She has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution since 1977 traveling often to her studio in Tokyo, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and the struggle with her psychological trauma.

These works explore a tension in societal attitudes towards the preservation of culture: the obsessiveness with which we conserve and narrativize visual art and popular culture, yet dismiss technology as somehow adversarial to art and art - making.

In their horror vacui obsessiveness, some of his works suggest...

Seliger's synthesis of obsessiveness, patience and calm with a sense of urgency is just one of the many visual paradoxes one encounters in these paintings.