I also have a slight obsession with extravagant desserts, so perfectly designing the cake was essential, with an emphasis on the "smash cake".
I also have a slight obsession with extravagant desserts, so perfectly designing the cake was essential, with an emphasis on the "smash cake". We had a personal dessert chef work her magic, which turned out to be pretty unbelievable.
Lessner paints the background of his Casual Gentleman Collection "Lamborghini yellow" because of his obsession with the extravagant cars and the lavish lifestyle they embody.
Beethoven gave his personal obsessions a series of extravagant forms that did more than express his inner worlds: they seemed coextensive with the very power of the medium itself.
He is often compared to Federico Fellini, with whom he shares an extravagant visual sense, very private thematic obsessions, and an extremely democratic imagery, that combines the hermetic and the mundane with a deeply autobiographical logic.
The discovery stokes Tom's obsession, and he goes to extravagant lengths to solve the case.
"Obsess over something extravagant.
The book is eerily prescient, as it predicts not just the lasting fascination with Trump and how America would come to embrace characters who get away with serial murders (Hannibal Lecter, Dexter) but also how Bateman's obsessions with fashion, youth and extravagant cuisine have moved from moneyed metrosexuals to the culture at large.
But while the common forebear behind those works is W. G. Sebald, Gospodinov's model is Borges, whose delight in mischievous games and extravagant fantasy he shares; for all Gospodinov's obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny.
He eventually became a central figure of La Sape (abbreviation for The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People), a controversial community of Kinshasa and Brazzaville young dandies characterised by their obsession for European clothing restyled in extravagant ways.
