Sentence examples for extraordinary obsession from inspiring English sources

She was even more scathing about Sue Lawley's 18-year tenure, claiming that the presenter had "an extraordinary obsession with other people's sex lives".

And it circles directly back to the extraordinary obsession he has been nurturing on his land for almost 20 years now of trying to reinvent himself as an artist by being a farmer.

Before the Cameron meeting, Rouhani had already met a number of world leaders, including France's François Hollande and Austria's Heinz Fischer, but with suspicion of Britain rife in Iran it will be the most-scrutinised at home.Iranian hardliners have an extraordinary obsession with Britain (which they still consider "the old fox") and approach it with a conspiratorial mindset.

That this should be muddled with his resentments, his political naivety and his extraordinary self-obsession (he worried at one time that he was lactating because his nipples were always sore) is simply sad.

In his portrait of the now-legendary duo and their rocky relationship, Kushner creates a vivid picture of obsession, extraordinary technical skill and creativity pitted against severe hardware constraints, and a gaming industry coming into its own.

THE MAN WHO PUSHED AMERICA TO WAR: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi, by Aram Roston.

Here one man's obsession led to the extraordinary Crystal Galleries.

There's no quarreling with Apple's extraordinary success, and Mr. Jobs's obsession with controlling all aspects of Apple's products clearly paid off for its customers and shareholders.

So now came our first real conversation about art, which concerned what we called "the dark renaissance" – Caravaggio and Giorgione, whose extraordinary Tempest had been an early obsession for both of us.

Setting himself apart from other governors, Gov. Jerry Brown has launched an extraordinary broadside against the current national obsession with testing that continues to dominate school reform efforts across the state and nation.

"F for Fake" Orson Welles's documentary and meta-documentary about the art forger Elmyr de Hory is also a collage of Welles's own obsessions, starting with his own extraordinary self.