Being a product of her generation, Ms. Kruger articulates its familiar obsessions and self-regard.
However, some critics found the film's visual surrealism an uneasy companion to Allen's familiar obsessions.
The book largely repeats Hitler's familiar obsessions with racial politics and Germany's need for more territory, or Lebensraum.
Alfred Hitchcock's sumptuous romantic melodrama, from 1949 — set in Sydney, Australia, in 1831 — explores lurid new byways of Hitchcock's familiar obsessions.
Many of Conrad's familiar obsessions are here: revolutionary politics, the curdling of ambition into avarice, oppressive heat, confusion and corruptibility.
Eco's Bildungsroman, set in the Middle Ages, includes some of the author's familiar obsessions -- forged manuscripts, fake relics -- and features several bizarre episodes and characters of impeccably historical origin.
All the familiar obsessions are here: the thick detail of London life; efficient but messy bursts of violence; a disgusted relish for the oozings and peelings of the human body; 'the obscenification of everyday life'.
And so the poems in the book are very much his own, expressing his familiar obsessions with love and loss and life's vicissitudes in language that is generally simple and direct.
Freudians associate such things as coprophagy with the death instinct, but the familiar obsessions, as they come off here, are so gleefully extravagant — another organ, another fluid, another outrage!
Eco still has his familiar obsessions -- forged manuscripts, fake relics, endless digressions on anything from the nature of the vacuum to the Nestorian heresy, the endemic illusions and dreams of mankind -- but this time they're geared to a relatively clear narrative-within-a-narrative.
