obsession (expand with variations)

The obsession with the Prime Minister's health is not just because we are fascinated with the physical condition of our leaders.

What adds to the plangency is Plath's obsession with her father's death when she was nine.

The vanquishing of the Queen of Scots became a life-long obsession.

Although often dreaded for his Germanic obsession with the most recondite forms, Reger was also a composer of passionate intensity.

This is a story of love and obsession and charity and the world's most expensive new coffee-table book, more expensive than most coffee tables and weightier, too, with its price tag of $2,900 and its weight of 19 pounds.

In case there's any doubt about the title character's fascination, obsession, indeed, infatuation with money, consider what happens when Harpagon and his gold are parted in Center Stage's wildly exuberant rendition of Moliere's The Miser.

As a man very much of his time, with a fin-de-siècle appetite for the new that was also a cover-up for an obsession with the past, Jung both found and invented the then not so well-known Freud.

Squaring the Stronachs' gambling interests with the family values obsession of erstwhile Reformers will be an interesting exercise.

Nostalgia is the ache to return, to come home; nostophobia, the fear of returning; nostomania, the obsession with going back; nostography, writing about return.

So is transcendence, risk, obsession, pleasure, distractedness, timelessness, and a sense of the holy or sacred.

And the minute I did it, it just became an obsession.What passes for conflict centers on Ollie's obsession with getting back into publicity in Manhattan.

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