On one hand, they use the prevailing obsession with real estate as a way to reveal their characters' moral shortcomings — their obsession with the quality of their houses, their pressing need to compete, the essential meaninglessness of their constant renovations, as if desperate to erase history and refashion homes as an outward manifestation of a self set free from the past.
The direct return of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan navy signals the Australian government's willingness to plumb new moral depths in its obsession with stopping the boats, regardless of the human cost.
Mr Weidmann's views are similarly circumscribed by the tenets of German economic thinking: a distrust of policy discretion; an emphasis on the long term; a deep-seated fear of inflation; and an obsession with moral hazard.
For this reason Nabokov once dismissed it as tediously abstract, maintaining that Dostoyevsky's obsession with moral questions kept him from writing vividly about the material details of actual life.
The Mormon obsession with moral improvement and with "pretending nothing bad happens," as he says, accounts in large part for LaBute's relish of transgression.... Tells about "Your Friends and Neighbors" and "Nurse Betty", two more recent films... in his stage work LaBute favors the black box — the unadorned proscenium — and the confines of the monologue.
An obsession with moral international behavior can lead to disastrous consequences.
"Ariel's Crossing" is, in the end, a fairly old-fashioned morality tale, and read together with "Trinity Fields," it offers a panoramic view of postwar American obsessions, paranoias and moral problems.
Urging the neglected claims of emotion, motivation and sheer luck in morality, the importance of "internal" as well as "external" reasons, Williams extended moral philosophy from an over-theorised obsession with moral obligation into the Hellenic latitude of ethics - living a whole life well.
Craig Childs understands these kinds of epiphanies, and he beautifully captures them in "Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession" — along with the moral ambiguities that come from exposing a long-hidden world.
The obsession with validating Republican moral stature is also at the heart of another Trump analysis genre: the "This is it″ story.
