The closing group consisted of battle songs, the best of which was Romanze des Richard Löwenherz, based on Scott's Ivanhoe, its steady, horse's-hooves beat accompaniment hinting at obsession beneath the military bravado.
He gently hints at his obsession with order, but nowhere explores how, despite his intrinsic rebellious naughtiness, he managed to fall in love with a hierarchical organisation that pretends to give order to a disordered world.
The story also includes typical Gothic themes, which scholar Dawn Sova refers to as "hints at secret obsessions and sins, foreboding prophecies, family rivalry".
Thus, both medium and content hint at boyhood obsession.
Its best track is "Bread," an epic round that hints at weird inner obsessions: "The reason why you don't rest/ You haven't built it".
Dour nudes in early paintings by Salle hint at sexual obsessions drained of sensuality — let alone love or even liking.
The titles of Mr. Mo's novels hint at his obsessions: "The Garlic Ballads" (1995); "The Republic of Wine" (2000); "Big Breasts & Wide Hips" (2004).
Sometimes these books hint at determined obsessions, as with a compendium of miscellaneous information based on the Wunderkammer of Johann Christian Kundmann, published in 1737.
That fascination hints at a deeper, largely unspoken obsession with the links between size, virility, masculinity and attractiveness.
Wagner didn't remain such a libertine or a liberal, but this seemingly formulaic bel-canto score hints at several of his perennial obsessions.
A knitted, multicolored zigzag wrap skirt over burgundy leather sweatpants, under a houndstooth turtleneck sweater, was a particularly great look and hinted at fashion's obsession with dressed-up comfort wear, known as the athleisure trend.
