"There's an existing obsession with class," he said.
Kay writes: "Many true conspiracy theorists I've met don't even bother with Web surfing anymore.... From the very instant they first boot up their computer in the morning, their in-boxes comprise an unbroken catalog of outrage stories ideologically tailored to their pre-existing obsessions".
Ultimately, however, sanctifying the quest for a hotter — O.K., healthier — body may be a perfect fit for New York, because it offers a supremely high-minded justification for a pre-existing obsession.
A similar longing for self-affirmation fuels Rushdie's geopolitical analysis, where an obsession with the "poison" of "actually existing Islam" suppresses all nuance suggested by political and historical facts.
Rather, the film's evident and self-conscious desire to tap into a reservoir of existing references and associations is a sign of its director's obsession with other movies.
Video content aggregation and curation is a crowded space, but Gilles believes his team's film background and obsession over user experience gives Hyper an edge over existing discovery tools within sites like Vimeo and YouTube.
Video content aggregation and curation is a crowded space, but Gilles believes his team's film background and obsession over user experience gives Hyper an edge over existing discovery tools within sites like Vimeo and YouTube.
Designing a better artificial wave was the obsession of Thomas Lochtefeld, a California lawyer and longtime surfer who said existing surf pools were not worth the expense or the space.
A retrofit system – lifting floorboards and fitting pipes between existing joists, for example – will cost more than working from scratch, but here the British obsession with DIY comes into its own.
In "iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us" (Palgrave Macmillan), Dr. Rosen surveys the existing research, throws in a bit of his own and suggests ways that users of new technologies can avoid behavioral pitfalls.
