This is probably because music is the most perfect of all arts, the "highest obsession" (Pasternak).
The short version of the scale [ 41] that is used in the current study consists of 5 items which can be scored on a 0-4 scale, where a higher score indicates higher obsessions and compulsions regarding drugs or alcohol.
Mr. Othoniel, even in his earliest work, shares the high medieval obsession with beauty and death.
If Hitchcock's first film in this country, "Rebecca," gave us cliff-high romantic obsession, rich with the credible terror of lives gone wrong, what has Park imported?
The movie is about step dancing as a high-school obsession — kids defining themselves personally and then as a group in dance, and matching styles in duels with other groups.
He fished and worked with masters, including Lee Wulff and A. J. McClane, who helped elevate fishing to a high-minded obsession, but he was also quick with tips for beginners.
Both women are true New Yorkers with a high-heel obsession and the chicest wardrobe anyone could ever wish for.
– Glenn Collins The Drinks Business: The Bordeaux bubble has burst as Asian wine buyers have moved on to other high-end obsessions, auctioneers say.
By late afternoon it was snowing again, there were white peaks in the distance and after one last tunnel, it appeared: the crooked, mythic Matterhorn, 14,692 feet high, age-old obsession of climbers.
For instance, we require a very high, almost OCD, obsession with quick responses to clients and candidate.
