Sentence examples for bordered on obsession from inspiring English sources

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.

If it was a hobby, it was an interest that bordered on obsession.

That was the beauty of Pettitte, whose competitive alter-ego bordered on obsession to the point that the Yankees' pitchers jokingly called him by another name, Lloyd, on days that he pitched.

With a passion for physics that bordered on obsession, she also worked for the division of war research at Columbia University during the second world war, where she became a highly productive researcher and later professor.

His infatuation with Ferraris seemingly bordered on obsession; the floors of his garage, prosecutors say, were checkered in black and white, and the walls were red and yellow, Ferrari colors.

Here the poet's collections bordered 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.

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.

For some, that fandom may well be bordering on obsession.

Many residents hate them with a passion bordering on obsession.

He soon acquired a reputation for assiduousness bordering on obsession.