Sentence examples for collective obsession from inspiring English sources
Why has this collective obsession gone so far?
Yet I suspect our collective obsession with photos is hastening its demise.
Sarah Koenig's intricately drawn-out murder case became a collective obsession.
In a village where children are customarily named for body parts, wombs are the unspoken and collective obsession.
The following discussion covers five types of collective obsession: fads, hysterical contagion, deviant epidemic, fashion, and crazes.
But the collective obsession with short-term austerity across the rich world is hurting.The second failure is one of honesty.
A thin line separates crowd activities from collective obsessions.
Another term frequently used to characterize collective obsessions is craze.
Fashion is much like fads and other collective obsessions, except that it is institutionalized and regularized, becoming continuous rather than sporadic, and partially predictable.
Third, because the goal is collaborative, there is more division of labour and cooperative activity in a crowd than in collective obsessions.
Collective obsessions occur throughout the animal world (the cattle stampede, the flocking of starlings on the courthouse roof), and the human animal, despite — or maybe because of — its more finely tuned mentality, seems exquisitely susceptible to them.
