Sentence examples for curious obsession from inspiring English sources

Yet Dudley remains sturdily enthusiastic about his curious obsession.

This is where a collector named Alan Dudley has spent the last four decades bent to a curious obsession.

The point is not that additional freedoms are bad but that, on the basis of evidence, they're a curious obsession.

Now all they have is Julian Lennon's Beatles memorabilia exhibition (John and Yoko got married there in 1969) and a curious obsession with Miss World.

This year's Republican primary contests ended with the curious obsession of the distant runner-up, the Texas senator Ted Cruz, with transgender people's access to public bathrooms.

It's a curious obsession for Sir Ian McKellen to have, not least because one other prominent person in the arts who is a Cambridge graduate with a degree in English is Sir Ian McKellen.

Whatever the origins of this curious French obsession, it has nothing to do with another Gallic passion: it just happens that, when spoken, the word for twenty (vingt) sounds exactly like the word for wine (vin).

A few months ago the director of the Panhandle-Plains HistoriCanyonseum in Canyon, Tex., told me in passing how his museum was frequently overrun by visiting Germans, so the curious German obsession with the Wild West — which newly arrived Americans repeatedly discover to predictable eye-rolling from Germans, for whom it's hardly news — was not exactly unknown to me.

From meowing nuns to the Backstreet Boys, we humans have periodically been overtaken by curious mass obsessions for reasons that have never been entirely clear.

And after the JonBenét Ramsey case became a national obsession, curious minds gathered online to try and solve the case themselves, much in the same way as Serial or Making a Murderer.

The political risk surrounding the Kingdom made us curious: why the obsession with Saudi money, beyond the obvious that they write monster checks?