Sentence examples for create an obsession from inspiring English sources

Cancer and its treatment often create an obsession with body image.

Dr. Wegner and his colleagues have found that they can "create an obsession in a matter of minutes" just by instructing their subjects, usually college students, to try not to think about something -- sex, for example, or an old flame.

You are the heart behind them that denies them and fights against them so ferociously that you create an obsession.

Certain individuals may be attached to the idea that fat is unhealthy and therefore they create an obsession around low-fat foods.

But when it became clear that she needed help … I couldn't ignore that in the hope of not creating an obsession.

Television, he continued, "in fostering a passion for depth involvement in every aspect of experience, creates an obsession with bodily welfare".

If you really want to give something superhuman powers and create an object of obsession and fantasy – ban it.

In looking for the roots of the American obsession to create an artistic tradition of its own -- what Georgia O'Keeffe called "the great American thing" -- Corn zeroes in on such "machine-age modernists" of the 20's as Demuth and Charles Sheeler.

Living at the epicenter of the outlet store revolution that created a national obsession with blemished merchandise, she was also known to lug home bags full of misshapen pretzels, sets of dishes with the glaze marred by air bubbles and Izod shirts whose alligators were missing part of a snout.

3. Listen to the marketplace and create a culture of customer obsession.

A bigger problem is that there's not too much pushing against those compulsions on which our hero acts: although he's nicely self-aware about his desire for novelty and his need to be involved with some kind of puzzle to solve, the extent to which his obsessions create a withdrawal from life goes mostly unexamined.