Sentence examples for a consuming obsession from inspiring English sources

Frequent flyer miles, those postmodern green stamps, were a consuming obsession for millions.

It has been a life, and a consuming obsession for Smith, pitted with prejudice and personal demons.

For Oney, the case has been a consuming obsession; some seventeen years of work went into this vast narrative.

What about Ken Grimes, who paints text-filled canvases charting a consuming obsession with space aliens but who once studied art at Yale.

Aschenbach's initial detached and aesthetic interest becomes a consuming obsession raging against the background of a cholera epidemic in the city.

As literature, the letters are an interesting portrait of a sheltered woman whose one brush with carnal desire left her with a consuming obsession.

His unmatched passion has helped: being a plant freak is a full-time job, an all consuming obsession, a disease, he says, for which there is no cure.

Personally I think all this violence is a reaction to, and perpetuation of, seclusion, fear, and this consuming obsession with Armageddon that is driving people over the edge.

All of this feeds Trump's consuming obsession with undoing everything Obama did.

"It is about what I expected -- a tissue of undocumented suspicions, allegations, ludicrous 'hypotheses,' half-truths and misrepresentations of the facts, events and relationships, all in line with his consuming obsession with some deep, dark conspiracy centered on Carlos Castaneda and U.C.L.A.," Dr. Furst wrote.

His subject emerges as a remarkable but flawed individual and as a less than consistently creative writer.Most striking is Mr Solzhenitsyn's unerring capacity to make enemies out of friends—as a result, largely, of subordinating his entire life, and the lives of virtually all with whom he came into contact, to his consuming obsession to fulfil his God-given task of exposing the evils of communism.