Sentence examples for creating an obsession from inspiring English sources
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".
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.
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.
If you really want to give something superhuman powers and create an object of obsession and fantasy – ban it.
Her obsession with creating a beverage as clear as a flawless diamond may well have been her most important achievement.
This is all part of a peculiarly French obsession with creating a smaller, more exclusive and more overtly political Europe to the exclusion of non-euro states such as Britain.French and German officials claim to have made a breakthrough in setting up the pillars of a banking union by the middle of next year.
1958 The documentary movie The Fly portrays a Montreal scientist's obsession with creating a means of killing houseflies by electric current.
