Translation for "obsesividad" to english
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Estaba perdiéndolo y yo le decía que era su obsesividad normal.
She was losing it and I kept telling her that it was her usual obsessiveness.
Sin embargo, nada en él indicaba la aterradora obsesividad que ella había visto esa tarde.
Still, she thought, there was nothing about him that suggested the frightening obsessiveness she had witnessed this afternoon.
Su obsesiva terquedad –su terca obsesividad– habían estado a punto de provocar el hundimiento de mi madre, en los últimos tiempos: desde su jubilación, a los sesenta y tres años, la casera y briosa independencia de mi madre había llegado casi a extinguirse, ante la autoritaria y dominante tendencia al ordeno y mando de mi padre.
His obsessive stubbornness—his stubborn obsessiveness—had very nearly driven my mother to a breakdown in her final years: since his retirement at the age of sixty-three, her once spirited, housewifely independence had been all but extinguished by his anxious, overbearing bossiness.
Iván intentó expresárselo a las dos, pero el idioma les fallaba a ambas, el idioma y, tal vez, la filosofía, ya que ni Madre ni Katerina padecían la obsesividad masculina por la causa mecánica, por los mecanismos por los que las cosas funcionan en el mundo natural.
Ivan tried to express this to them, but now language did fail them all, language and, perhaps, philosophy, since neither Mother nor Katerina had the male obsessiveness with mechanical cause—the mechanisms by which things worked in the natural world.
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