Sentence examples similar to a prevailing obsession from inspiring English sources

On one hand, they use the prevailing obsession with real estate as a way to reveal their characters' moral shortcomings — their obsession with the quality of their houses, their pressing need to compete, the essential meaninglessness of their constant renovations, as if desperate to erase history and refashion homes as an outward manifestation of a self set free from the past.

The corruption of the flesh — by age and by lust — is the prevailing obsession of Theroux's story collection.

She lacked a doctrine, a prevailing call.

Holes, in fact, were a prevailing theme.

Their enthusiasm reflects a prevailing mood.

Politics remains a prevailing aspect of Albany.

A prevailing sloppiness reigns.

Access to care remains a prevailing problem.

I think there's a prevailing attitude at the State Department.

File a Prevailing Wage request with DOL.

It was a compulsion, an obsession.