A cultural critic sees events like the O. J. Simpson trial and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, as national obsessions that overshadow ideas and ideology.
Marnie proved to be a divisive film, with some seeing it as an astonishing distillation of Hitchcock's obsessions but others regarding it as a mere fetishistic catalogue of those obsessions that is unsupported by an interesting story.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterised by: (a) recurrent, persistent thoughts, ideas or images (obsessions) that cause marked anxiety or distress, and are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate, and (b) repetitive, purposeful and intentional behaviours (compulsions) that the patient performs in response to an obsession in an attempt to reduce his/her distress.
Know the obsessions that often characterize OCD.
There is probably no childhood obsession that reaches as far into adulthood as ancient Egypt.
"Rodrigo Duterte does not, as he has put it, 'give a shit,' about human rights, which he sees as a Western obsession that keeps the Philippines from taking the action necessary to clean up the country".
As with any obsession that encourages rummaging into minutiae, fashion's current font preoccupation has schisms probably being debated heatedly on page 23 of a thread on The Fashion Spot.
Of course, viewers were naturally interested in the story of a mysterious disappearance, but, given that it was the TV-news establishment that had forced the story on us for days on end, Couric was disingenuous, at the very least, when she described the search for Wilbanks as "a national obsession" that had "gripped the nation".
It's the part that appears deeply obsessed with Obama as a person; an unhealthy obsession that seemed to surpass any interest in his policies.
With Anna Netrebko singing the title role in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael as Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, this unlikely double-bill turns into a captivating study of obsession that is as thrilling and chilling as any fairy tale or horror story, one ending happily and the other not so much.
