Sentence examples for central obsessions of from inspiring English sources

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.

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

In a fragment of autobiography written when he was 70 (Westlake died in 2008), he admits that the first word he ever read was "police" and that the central obsession of his life was story.

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.

Pryor's central obsession, always, is race.

Powers's formalism is most obvious in "The Gold Bug Variations" (1991), his third novel, which took pattern-making itself as its subject, using the obsessions of its central characters to play the intricacies of molecular biology against the architectonics of Baroque music.

The obsessions of that hugely obsessional character became my own.

Europe seems to be a central part of his 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.

It should be unnecessary to dwell on the extreme dangers posed by one central element of the predatory obsessions that are producing calamities all over the world: the reliance on fossil fuels, which courts global disaster, perhaps in the not-too-distant future.