Sentence examples for irrational obsession from inspiring English sources

But when does rational concern for one's health spill over into irrational obsession?

The term was later used in psychology to refer to an irrational obsession that so dominates an individual's thoughts as to determine his or her actions.

In Bogotá it is variously attributed to envy, irrational obsession and anger that prosecutors have pursued officials from his government for corruption.

He seems to think that the position of Senator Álvaro Uribe, a former president, is based on "envy, irrational obsession and anger".

I can see now that, though Mr Furtherfield was a kind, amusing, tolerant man, his slow driving was an irrational obsession.

The 34-year-old developed an "irrational obsession" with his victim and lured her to his home under the promise of a get-together with friends, Merthyr crown court heard.

There is little sign here of those endless studies of the "Eastern question" of earlier generations, which showed how the French invasion of Egypt was born not from irrational obsessions but rather from a coherent, if misguided, response to one of the great international issues of the age -- the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the expansion of Russian power.

The Iraq war – which took the lives of countless civilians and soldiers, plunged the region into chaos and helped spawn Islamic State – is regarded as a freakish, irrational, leftwing obsession.

An unnerving study in irrational, erotic obsession, this daring, sexually explicit film shapes up as a first-rate thriller, irrespective of your sexual preference.

It's almost like an irrational, disconnected obsession by someone who may have had a psychotic break at some point in the last few anos.

Marcus, like so many of Mr. Roth's heroes, grew up in New Jersey, and suddenly finds himself estranged from his hard-working, stubborn father, but his unmooring results not from any act of rebellion on Marcus's part, but from his increasingly irrational dad's obsession with his safety — his conviction that his brilliant son will somehow come to harm.