I wanted Paul to be like the figures that obsessively return in Bacon: faces eaten by something coming from the inside.

She reports having an upright piano shipped from Texas to New York and returning to the keyboard obsessively during her most depressed phase of post-divorce life.

Her thoughts kept returning obsessively to the Château La Tour Monchauzet, and its master.

He calls our attention to our own conspicuous consumption, obsessively returning to the metaphor of garbage, refuse dumps, and debris.

Not by accident, almost all the interviews he gave would obsessively return to questions about his advanced age, to the spiritual testament he dedicated to his followers and so on.

In writing, Spender distinctively and obsessively returned to his own impressions of events and people: these were his subject.

In play after play he returns obsessively to the ghosts of Germany past.

He impatiently fast-forwards through the parts of the tape that record a great philosophical insight and obsessively returns to the memory of a moment of intimacy in a rowboat.

He paints pictures, returning obsessively to the memory of something that once gave him pleasure.