Schubert's attraction to Goethe approached obsession.
It's the most popular dish on the menu — he says 30 are served a night — and it's one that has inspired a craving approaching obsession among many fans.
A win, however, would send out the message that Van Gaal remains capable of inspiring his players, despite their increasing concerns over his unswerving approach and obsession with possession and apparent football by numbers.
Its launch came on the same day that some of the world's largest football clubs announced their own foray into social networking with Dugout.com, and Clarkson said there were similarities in the way football fans and car enthusiasts approached their obsessions online.
Current cognitive approaches postulate that obsessions and compulsions are caused and/or maintained by misinterpretations about their meaning.
The Arlésiennes were famously the most bewitching women in Europe, and van Gogh, who approached women with obsession, trepidation, appetite, and a complete inability to put himself over, was eager to try his luck.
There is nothing to do except stay indoors, watch TV or gamble on the stock market - now, some believe, approaching a national obsession.
Lest you're afraid she's under the delusion that one must only follow a formula to become Queen Bey, let me assure you that Bertsche takes a pragmatic approach to her obsession with A-Listers: "One benefit of mooching the habits of a mentor -- be it SJP's clothing choices or Gwyneth's cooking -- is that it forces you to start somewhere," she writes.
With the presidential election hanging on the outcome of the vote in eight or so swing states, we're approaching America's quadrennial obsession with the Electoral College.
Not for the faint-hearted, it takes a haunting approach to envy, seduction, obsession, and masochism, but all filmed so beautifully with a very classy French style that I love.
