Each dwarf pursues a singular obsession, called a focus, that requires at least a week to complete.
To understand us, Mr. Hu could tune into the droll and entertaining "Boers and Bernstein" on all-sports WSCR-AM to gain full-body immersion in a cultural obsession called Bears-Packers — the trash talk, repartee on Jay Cutler vs. Aaron Rodgers and the underlying Second City fear of deflating defeat.
Writing for Slant magazine, Keith Uhlich described Henriksen's portrayal of Black as "the perfect actorly complement to Carter's thematic obsessions", calling the character a "mortal survivalist pushing ever-forward, even in the face of the devil's idle temptations".
In June, she will publish a new book, a novella called "Obsession: An Erotic Tale".
Money became an obsession — Ninette de Valois called him "money mad".
After nearly four decades, during which Medicare significantly improved the health and economic conditions of the nation's elderly, this unrelenting hostility can fairly be called an obsession.
Spring, Wilkenfeld said, has become the time for "owning and claiming the dress: putting it up on Facebook and saying, 'This is mine!' " The process, he said, can take months, becoming what he called "an obsession" and "a mental process of agony".
Peacock said that she loved the song's "groovy and dubby" feel, but disliked the "pitchy vocals" "Imperial", "Climatic Phase #3" and "Plainsong" were made from what Clifford called "an obsession for sampling and sequencing.
His allegations were bolstered by those of U.S. advisors and Vietnamese sources, as well as by an internal report commissioned by the Army's acting general counsel, endorsing the whistleblower's contention that an obsession with what was called "the body count" likely led to civilian deaths.
But a program called "Obsession à la Russe," presented by the New York Festival of Song at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday and enlivened by the witty commentary of the able accompanist Steven Blier, challenged some of those musical stereotypes.
