To perseverate means to focus obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing.

But I need a formula. I need some thing to say to myself when I begin thinking obsessionally, obsessively.

This led to me writing The Vagina Monologues, which led to me obsessively and incessantly talking about vaginas everywhere I could.

This led to me writing The Vagina Monologues, which led to me obsessively and incessantly talking about vaginas everywhere I could.

You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person.

I set up my studio in the red light district and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbing tubing, and found a way to redefine the skin and create this dynamic textile.

The country has fully reconciled itself with America s strategic shift away from the European continent, even though Poles are as obsessively fearful of Russia as ever. And can one blame them, given that Russia seems more nostalgic for its imperial tradition than ever?

By obsessively filtering their conflict through the nightmare of the Holocaust and the Nakbah, Israelis and Palestinians have doomed the chances of a peaceful settlement of their dispute. Viewing the current conflict between such formidable military powers as Israel and Iran through a similar lens can only breed untold catastrophe.

Or, on the contrary, is there something odd in the way that the European fringes obsessively resort to historical milestones? In Britain and Russia, this obsession appears to be not just a way to assert national interests, but also a mechanism for appealing to a population disenchanted with the contemporary realities of decline from the imperial past.