The phrase "border on obsession" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that something is close to obsession or is almost an obsession. For example: "The way the student studied for the test bordered on obsession."
For years, Mr. Goodman has made reviving downtown his top priority — his relentless cheerleading might border on obsession.
Last night, Prince's ultra-fancy lotusflow3r.com site, of the questionable art direction and promised bottomless content, finally launched, which meant that Prince fans with interest in the artist that border on obsession could finally get their hands on the man's three new albums.
In a neighborhood where interests in real estate, crime and education sometimes border on obsession, the conflict might seem inevitable: A private school, outgrowing its classic Brooklyn Heights building, rented space in 1 Pierrepont Plaza, a nearby office tower, for four classrooms and a computer lab.
Others warn that because the approach lets children choose their own projects, it leaves them bereft of basic academic skills, a disadvantage in New York's often cutthroat testing culture, in which the search for a place at a top-flight school can border on obsession.
But for Payne, Salvatori, and a network of creep-catching vigilantes across Canada that is growing in spite of police disapproval, the work seems to border on obsession.
But for Payne, Salvatori, and a network of creep-catching vigilantes across Canada growing in spite of police disapproval, the work seems to border on obsession.
Considering the hours he puts into even the smallest pictures, which are just a few inches tall and wide, this means a persistence bordering on obsession, and one always feels the claustrophobia and passage of time in the work.
Ms. Hart's earlier show, "Shells," which she wrote with Nick Chase, involved the love life of a character named Michelle Hoffman, a self-absorbed woman whose preoccupation with one particular date she had bordered on obsession.
And although there were many initial responses, one of the most memorable was my need, bordering on obsession, to become a collector (perhaps even hoarder) of all my father's stuff.
