Sentence examples for emerging obsession from inspiring English sources

McLuhan wasn't overly enthusiastic about this emerging obsession, seeing it as a way for consumers to offload the information overload and psychic stress of modern life.

Tracing the genesis of a still-thriving poverty research industry from its roots in the War on Poverty, it demonstrates how research agendas were subsequently influenced by an emerging obsession with welfare reform.

Look magazine devoted five pages to a methodical self-help guide to an emerging American obsession: "How to Spot a Communist".

A new type of vacation is emerging from our obsession with the way we look: a combination of hospital and beach.

Ferris's nemesis, the school disciplinarian, Mr. Rooney, is obsessed with 'getting Bueller.' His obsession emerges from envy.

He keeps her captive in his mansion, and soon an outlandish, lurid back story to his obsession emerges.

You don't have to read far into Bennett's work to see that it snags in particular places, and threads of obsession emerge.

And as in some of McCann's earlier books — most obviously "Dancer," about Rudolf Nureyev, and "Zoli," based on the life of the Polish Romany poet Papusza — the storytelling emerges from his obsession with actual people and events.

British theatre is obsessed with the young and emerging talent, and in Edinburgh that obsession is magnified.

As average gas prices have topped $2 a gallon this month for the first time, cracks are emerging in America's decade-long obsession with bigger and bigger vehicles.

Still, certain thematic obsessions emerge; questions of vision and perception, for instance, come up often.