Sentence examples for held obsession from inspiring English sources

It is a 'must read' that will leave you wondering about the validity of the long held obsession that reduces the law and legal studies to little more than a preoccupation with the word.

The new songs are about lovers' breakups and other agitated mental states: insecurity ("Salute Your Solution"), imprisonment ("Hold Up"), obsession ("Attention") and show business ("Five on the Five," with Mr. White wailing, "I look nothing like the kids in the videos").

"Jon & Kate Plus 8" preceded TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" as the family reality show that briefly held Americans' gossipy obsession from 2007 until 2011.

In their conversation, Mr. Steinberg shared a long-held obsession with Mr. de Blasio — the seemingly arbitrary way tax assessments are determined, leaving some property owners to grossly overpay and some to underpay.

The focus on the east of Congo falls in line with the long-held obsession by some advocates in Washington who incessantly push for the balkanization of the Congo.

This fact is a reflection of America's long-held obsession with the sexual "purity" of white women, which has always been a direct extension of violent patriarchy and racism disguised as chivalry.

Too frequently these days we are sequestered indoors, held captive by our obsession with screens in one form or another.

And as long as the obsession has held, there've been detractors in the government determined to prevent cons from capitalizing off their crimes or notoriety.

Yet if the characters are violent and half crazy, Preminger holds back from obsession.

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In so many ways, Killing Eve forces us to contemplate the degree to which every obsession holds within it a kernel of romantic desire, and the degree to which we regularly police our own sexuality.