obsession (exact matches only)

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.

"Why are you so obsessed with bottles?" Two questions wouldn't normally qualify as obsession to me but everything is apparently relative.

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.

It is an aspect of his reliability that the occasional mistakes were studied with an obsessional interest normally found only in conspiracy theorists.

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.

Sometime in the mid to late 1980s, or perhaps only when he started winning championships in the early 1990s (I’m not sure because I wasn’t quite the ever-watchful social critic in elementary school that I am now), Michael Jordan took a sport that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird had already made legitimate a half (or full) decade earlier and turned it into something else: something approaching a national obsession.

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.

They surely would be puzzled by contemporary obsessions with inner pain and personal ghosts, by the various "syndromes" that describe new maladies, and by the new drugs invented to treat them.

He was prone to the usual obsessions and delusions of boys his age — the Klingons, for example, were as real for Bob as the French or the Germans, more real certainly than, say, Luxemburgers.

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