Sentence examples for disturbing obsession from inspiring English sources

Radcliffe's character in Equus, written by British playwright Peter Shaffer, is Alan Strang, a haunted stable boy who has a disturbing obsession with horses.

The statement continued: "We believed 700 tweets in four weeks indicated a disturbing obsession on the part of the anonymous writer.

She added that the company "believed 700 tweets in four weeks indicated a disturbing obsession on the part of the anonymous writer" and hoped "the anonymous writer gives more thought to the line that divides the humorous from the offensive".

A Northcliffe Media spokesperson has explained that the "barrage" of tweets "amounted to cyber-bullying and harassment" and that they illustrated "a disturbing obsession on the part of the anonymous writer".

We hear about his almost disturbing obsession with Archie, his famous teddy bear; the bitter fights with his wife (she once threw Archie out of the window - it almost ended the marriage); his ambivalent relationship with the middle classes ("He was the poet of the petit bourgeois but he wasn't himself one").

There were plenty of adult-references and weird things that went on in each episode of the show like Helga, the school bully, who had a disturbing obsession with the football-headed kid.

There were other clues that Reilly may have been harbouring disturbing obsessions.

In his brief and rather clueless first sojourn in the prime minister's office six years ago, Mr Abe presented himself as a traditionalist and nationalist, one prey to the often disturbing historical obsessions of those who have never really come to terms with the defeat of their country in 1945 and the settlement subsequently imposed on it.

As disturbing as the obsession was, I had found some strange comfort in the numbers.

But the film steers clear of one of his most disturbing aspects: his obsession in song with the sexual attraction of under-age girls.

One offshoot of the Brexit aftermath that is particularly disturbing is a growing obsession with the "post-truth" society.