Sentence examples for creating obsessions from inspiring English sources
The financial loss is searing, but the theft of a painting also takes an emotional toll on the victims of plunder, holding them in its grip, creating obsessions.
But when it became clear that she needed help … I couldn't ignore that in the hope of not creating an obsession.
"We are all creatures of need," writes Janov, and when those needs are not met as children, we create neuroses, obsessions, anxieties, and depression.
Television, he continued, "in fostering a passion for depth involvement in every aspect of experience, creates an obsession with bodily welfare".
Religious, racial, and even anti-aristocratic class prejudices combined to create the obsession with "purity of blood" (limpieza de sangre) which became characteristic of the Spaniards in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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.
Her obsession with creating a beverage as clear as a flawless diamond may well have been her most important achievement.
But the Chinese government's obsession with creating hi-tech national champions risks undermining the very thing that has given Chinese companies an edge low costs and prices.
