Sentence examples for early obsession from inspiring English sources

Much was made of Channel Five's early obsession with grubby programming but who the hell thought broadcasting Keith Chegwin's penis was the way forward?

He did a media course - specifically, radio - though he was already reviewing for Melody Maker, the Guardian and the Scotsman thanks to an early obsession with video games.

Those who thought they knew Carlos as a brash New Yorker may be surprised by some of his more personal recollections, including having an early obsession with swimming across the English Channel and having Fred Astaire as a childhood hero.

Born in the Boston area in 1951, Richman developed an early obsession with the Velvet Underground, to the point where he came to New York as a teen-ager and slept on the couch of the band's manager, Steve Sesnick.

The intricate computer-generated visual effects of Mr. Jackson's Weta Digital company, he explained, were born of an early obsession with what were then the sophisticated special effects Mr. Spielberg used in 1993's "Jurassic Park".

He thought that his "early obsession with Ibsen and the Greeks – continuous action, compressed plot and, of course, concern for language" was partly to blame for his failure to attract, or be attracted, by Hollywood.

Neffe does an especially thorough job tracing their origins in Einstein's early obsessions, and he shows how completely the latest cosmic theories are constructed atop general relativity.

We may allow ourselves the excitement of revelations along the way, but all artists return to the comfort or discomfort of those early obsessions.

The tidiness of that timeline doesn't quite do justice to Mr. Grossman, 58, whose early obsessions revolved around Charlie Parker and bebop.

It conjures something of the joy of children's crazes for dinosaurs, early obsessions that give small brains purchase on names, on understanding same versus different, on how humans carve nature at the joints.

Born Lewis Allan Reed to a highly respectable Long Island Jewish family in 1942, he channelled his early obsessions with rock and roll, free jazz, hardboiled literature, poetry and journalism into his songwriting for his band The Velvet Underground, a radical fusion of shambolic garage rock and avant-garde concert music.