Sentence examples for Universal obsession from inspiring English sources

The universal obsession is Minecraft.

Inside Korea, however, food is a universal obsession.

The Lobster is a satire on the subject of our universal obsession with relationships, and our conviction that couplehood is the supreme expression of human happiness, a civilised institution which distinguishes us from the beasts.

Prefiguring many of the early criticisms of the present protest, White argued that the universal obsession with economics was distracting the nation from more pragmatic pursuits: "We have businessmen, commuters, the salt of the earth, riding into town in the morning, and what are they thinking about — their own business?

When Jake Halpern set out to write "Fame Junkies," his book about what is now a universal obsession with celebrity, he was surprised to uncover studies demonstrating that 31percentt of American teenagers had the honest expectation that they would one day be famous and that 80percentthoughtht of themselves as truly important.

Ice cream is a universal obsession, even more so now that the days when plain vanilla cones were the sole option are long gone.

Universal obsessions are also the reason that we enjoy the art and stories of peoples who lived in centuries and millennia past: Shakespeare, the Bible, the love stories and hero myths of countless cultures superficially unlike our own.

You might think the Web's biggest communities would coalesce around universal human obsessions like love or money, but the so-called big boards of the Internet are in fact highly specialized.

I say this not to jeer at a noble cause, but to show what an universal and intractable obsession the disease has become for our longer-lived societies.

In his mind, the obsession with universals was symptomatic of the pernicious culture that had taken over the schools.

But fretting over its rigidity is a peculiarly Anglophone obsession, not a universal one.