Sentence examples for longstanding obsession from inspiring English sources

That longstanding obsession has given her empathy for other women's selective self-loathing, however harsh or deluded their judgment.

Both countries have a longstanding obsession with hierarchy (fancy job titles can be the key to getting a bride as well as the admiration of your friends).

Dr. V spent a few days at McDonalds Hamburger Universityy in Oak Brook,, Ill., but that visit was a product of his longstanding obsession with efficiency.

Now in its third season, the league has proved a particularly successful form of entertainment, a local complement to a longstanding obsession here with the English Premier League.

The political awfulness of this movie (despite the adorability of Jimmy Stewart and, especially, Jean Arthur) is a longstanding obsession of mine.

Familiar with Mr. Sanders's longstanding obsession with Mr. Kagel, who died in 2008, Ms. Shao managed to find and procure a rare... um... thing that Mr. Kagel made in 1968.

Maybe the difference in America has something to do with our longstanding obsessions with automobiles and autonomy, with our predilection for isolationism, or our preference just for watching, more than participating.

The caricature of Abramović as an occultist is a parodic reductio ad absurdum of a longstanding conservative obsession.

More often than not, the explanations end up focusing on the longstanding national obsession with beauty pageants and the distraction they provide from a host of social and economic problems.

As anyone with a sufficient exposure to science fiction narratives could tell you, we humans have a longstanding literary obsession with the idea of machine sentience, of the creation of new life at our hands, and of what that might mean for the future.

He's also coming to terms with a fairly serious and longstanding Sonny Rollins obsession, yet it doesn't limit him; it frees him, somehow.