Sentence examples for great obsession from inspiring English sources

The great obsession began to take shape.

Don Quixote was Welles's great obsession.

Her other great obsession was the reclusive author JD Salinger.

Stillness is Gedney's great obsession, his most lasting theme.

Zemeckis, 57, has another great obsession: state-of-the-art film-making techniques.

Even Valdés, true to Cruyff's great obsession, was playing the ball out short.

TOM DONAGHY Playwright Gerry had three great obsessions -- theater, music and the law -- and he managed to incorporate all three into rehearsals.

In research that touches on two of Americans' great obsessions — coffee and cars — scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, have made diesel fuel from used coffee grounds.

(Random House, $29.95.) A generous collection of journalism by a writer who has exposed himself to many of the great obsessions of the 20th century without losing his curiosity, his skepticism or his willingness to listen.

"One of the great obsessions of our press over these past decades has been to discover whether he has any hidden poems or stories in his drawers," Luiz Schwarcz, the editor-in-chief of Companhia das Letras, the country's main publishing house, told me.

But Fischer has been Brady's greatest obsession.