Sentence examples for a point of obsession from inspiring English sources

Y Combinator startup founders are by nature a competitive bunch, so the funding metric became a point of obsession over time.

The desire for a parent to die sooner rather than later can escalate to a point of obsession.

It's remarkable how women's bodies – especially Muslim women's bodies – have become such a point of obsession by men on the highest levels of government.

It reaches a point of enthusiastic obsession that really pisses off all your non-tree planting friends, until, if you make it that long, years down the line you learn to know when to shut the hell up.

I did my best to explain that it wasn't a novelty or a joke, that it truly meant something to me, that it was a name that still stirred the deepest passion in me almost to the point of obsession, a word that inspires and excites and ignites the imagination.

But what of the situation here at home, where the actions of nineteen men armed only with box cutters has transformed the United States into a country consumed to the point of obsession with security?

Claire Danes won the best dramatic actress last night for her great turn as a brilliant and troubled CIA officer who is convinced to the point of obsession that a popular Iraq War hero is actually an operative for Al Qaeda.

Some accept it with a fatalistic shrug, others are furious, to the point of obsession, with what they see as a cruel discrimination.

Try to get to the bottom of Dangerfield's other hobbies, and he describes himself as a big food fan, "to the point of obsession".

Tim Hayward: "An example of how following something simple to the point of obsession can make a rivetting read.

Fastidious to the point of obsession, he was an extremely elegant little man, barely five feet tall, two inches taller than my mother.