Sentence examples for a central obsession from inspiring English sources

"With commuters paying thousands of pounds a year for their annual tickets on Southern there can be no explanation for the removal of the guards other than a central obsession in the boardroom for putting increased profits above public safety.

He was short and broad with the look of a man who lives with one central obsession.

It is one of the purest distillations of a central Lang obsession — the lone man at the mercy of a vast, sinister reality.

Pryor's central obsession, always, is race.

Eventually, though, she circles back to her central obsession: the power of storytelling.

Paterson has so far simply ignored such criticism, instead focusing on his government's central obsession: reviving economic growth.

Since Allawi took office, Iraq has become unmoored by violence, and his efforts to restore security have been the central obsession of his leadership.

"And the bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business... I suppose that is my central obsession.

It really is astonishing to contemplate what was once a progressive and intelligent [Conservative] party so comprehensively engineering its own destruction". Paterson has so far simply ignored such criticism, instead focusing on his government's central obsession: reviving economic growth.

In a fragment of autobiography written when he was 70 (Westlake died in 2008), he admits that the first word he ever read was "police" and that the central obsession of his life was story.

His central obsession is the Holocaust, and specifically the haunting fact that the Holocaust's ashes spread from high culture's Promethean fire: the civilization that produced Bach also produced Buchenwald.