Sentence examples for mounting obsession with from inspiring English sources

One is the mounting obsession with work: the average American now works the equivalent of four more weeks a year than he or she did in the 1960s.

Cheever's protagonist tells the story of his brother Richard — whom he describes as a "small" man in every way — and his mounting obsession with a piece of furniture: Richard and the lowboy were united like true lovers, and, considering the possibilities of magnificence and pathos in love, it seemed tragic that he should have become infatuated with a chest of drawers.

Cheever's protagonist tells the story of his brother Richard — whom he describes as a "small" man in every way — and his mounting obsession with a piece of furniture: > Richard and the lowboy were united like true lovers, and, considering the possibilities of magnificence and pathos in love, it seemed tragic that he should have become infatuated with a chest of drawers.

The blame, some experts say, can be pinned as squarely on parents' reluctance to broach the subject with their children as on an increasingly materialistic culture and Manhattanites' ever-mounting obsession with real estate.

As his health failed and threats to his position, both real and imagined, mounted, an "all-consuming obsession with the control, influence and power that money represented" led him to surround himself with a coterie of advisers tasked with "enforcing bonds, collecting fines, imprisoning and asset-stripping their victims".

They say teenage boys' growing obsession with bodybuilding reflects mounting pressure of a kind that teenage girls have been feeling for eons: to conform to an ideal physique.

With the city government's Olympic obsession mounting, everything is now evaluated in terms of how it will affect the bid.

That the Wooster Group is even doing it is a testament to the influence of Mr. Shepherd, who has always had an obsession with that play, memorizing every word after mounting and performing in a student production at Brown.

America has lost its moral compass with endless and increasing wars, staggering unemployment, unprecedented corporate power and our obsession with foreign oil -- the issues seems to mount daily.

issued a statement earlier this month that the "pro-choice and pro-D.C. advocates are ready to mount their opposition" against what she describes as "the insatiable Republican obsession with interfering with the rights of women in our city".

The N.B.A. has undergone strategic evolution over the past decade, driven by advanced metrics, an obsession with efficient shot selection, and the SportVU system of cameras mounted in arena rafters that track every movement on the court.