And Stuart Elliott, the advertising columnist, explains the myriad forms the American obsession with the ship takes, even today, in advertising and media: "The Titanic was a big ship.
In the 1980s, he made a number of adaptations of his diary for Channel 4. Later he co-edited (with Paul Hammond) two important anthologies, akin to the work of Mass Observation: Seeing in the Dark (1990), an assemblage of hundreds of accounts of cinema-going; and Brought to Book (1994), which documented the myriad forms of bibliophiliac obsession.
It presents in myriad ways, including an obsession with details, social awkwardness, a seeming inability to recognize the feelings or reactions of others, and flat, outward expression with few physical cues as to what the AS person is feeling.
No composer has transcribed bird song with more dedication than Messiaen, an ornithological sampling artist whose obsession manifested itself in myriad colorful works evoking birdcalls.
In the context of Lee's career, Chi-Raq is a paradox: It's both like nothing he's done before and a comprehensive compendium of his myriad, long-standing stylistic tics and thematic obsessions.
The obsession with looks pays off in myriad ways.
You have only to think of the wall-to-wall auctions on daytime TV, Dragon's Den, the Apprentice and the myriad forms of career-making competition the medium celebrates, the generalised obsession with fame and wealth, the pervasive sense, in watching it, that life is somewhere other than where you are, to see why this might be.
A startling Glasgow-set drama of obsession and revenge, Red Road centres on an operator of the city's myriad CCTV cameras - emotionally disconnected until a face from the past appears on her screens.
To support the thesis that this obsession is at the root of Germany's economic dominance (and its faulty risk-taking), Lewis uncovers myriad examples of fecal focus in German colloquialisms and proverbs.
There are myriad examples.
