Sentence examples for central obsession from inspiring English sources

Pryor's central obsession, always, is race.

Eventually, though, she circles back to her central obsession: the power of storytelling.

He was short and broad with the look of a man who lives with one central obsession.

Paterson has so far simply ignored such criticism, instead focusing on his government's central obsession: reviving economic growth.

Since Allawi took office, Iraq has become unmoored by violence, and his efforts to restore security have been the central obsession of his leadership.

"And the bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business... I suppose that is my central obsession.

Impersonal bureaucracies and brutal industrial processes serve less as backdrops than as the central obsessions of the book, which moves us through the munitions factories and killing fields of World War I, a psychiatric hospital and a creepily gentrified modern London where those who can't afford exorbitant rents are ruthlessly pushed out.

Although writer Mike MR Careyey's narrative about a fungal plague that turns victims into cannibalistic "hungries" occupies a post-28 Days Later landscape, the central obsessions explored here are closer to the identity crises of Never Let Me Go (both book and film), with a strong underlying strain of the very British weirdness of John Wyndham.

Soon he will focus more closely on health care, his central policy obsession.

This may not be especially surprising to people who remember central bankers' obsession with inflation-targeting from the late 1990s; the extent of the shift is more so.

This is not the kind of autism familiar from Rain Man and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, where the central characters' obsessions, sensory idiosyncracies and social difficulties can be understood with a little sympathy and imagination.