To be launched in 2018, Crossrail is now not only an obsession for planners, engineers and architects, but is also being sold as a potential catalyst for much-needed housing investment and regeneration.
And he said to me, 'I don't know if you agree, but it seems to me that France, or at least Paris, is becoming, sociologically, something out of Balzac.' Which is to say, not only the obsession with money but the instability of social relations".
Yet it's worth remembering that these are not only very English obsessions, but relatively deep-seated in our history.
Madonna isn't my only obsession.
Five years ago, dipping into the small fortune that his crossword and Sudoku puzzles have brought him, the Times crossword editor Will Shortz bought an old "junk dealer's warehouse," near his home in Pleasantville, New York, and — because puzzles aren't his only obsession — turned fourteen thousand square feet of it into a world-class Ping-Pong facility.
Size in ballet is not only a modern obsession.
Such grisly iconography of passivity and victimization became, to an adolescent boy, not only a morbid obsession but also a source of shame.
The resulting work, which changes for every exhibition she does, is testament not only to our obsession with sunsets, but our desire to preserve these liminal moments as a social experience.
I was somewhat taken aback at a remark that Mr. Zwick made in his article: "Such grisly iconography of passivity and victimization became, to an adolescent boy, not only a morbid obsession but also a source of shame".
It's not just 'Let's go get a burrito.' It's 'Let's get a mole ' or 'Let's get a grasshopper.' " The current vogue reflects not only the American obsession with novelty and the upper-middle-class hunger for authenticity but also deep anxiety about the meat we already eat — which is its own kind of fashion.
Sometimes do these circumstances not only reflect entrepreneurial obsession and mania, but the champion must be as convincing as a clairvoyant oracle.
