More striking, though, is his obsessive repetition of images of debased men ogling tarty, radiantly voluptuous women, whether in burlesque theaters or on the street.

Each piece manipulates obsessive rhythmic repetition, metallic orchestral textures and high-decibel sonorities to create the illusion of unstoppable alien energy, at once terrifying and fascinating.

The Fifth teems with astringent harmonies, bouts of anger, obsessive repetitions and a waltz movement so long-winded and convoluted that you don't for a moment trust its graceful pose.

He shoots into their veins what could not be called 'good drugs,' but ones that obliterate the subject, leaving only obsessive repetitions of the impulses to stimulate nerve endings.

The Moroccan music is building again, the obsessive repetitions of the oud in her ear like anger.

In the third movement, a study in perpetual motion and obsessive repetitions, Mr. Ligeti captivates you with his ingenious ability to have multiple, seemingly contradictory things happening at once.

His breakthrough 1976 work "De Staat" is a rigid riot of obsessive repetition.

There is something scary in Gorky's obsessive repetition of the same repellant, sharp-toothed, sexual forms and something poignant in the incongruent delicacy of his childlike, Eastery colors.

The obsessive repetition of shapes, with enough variation for occasional piquancy, is mildly interesting to a viewer who used to enjoy underground comic books.

Antheil's use of obsessive repetition is as challenging and provocative and beautifully wrought as that of Steve Reich or Glenn Branca.