Sentence examples for obsessed with describing from inspiring English sources

Even though we experience our world and ourselves as continuously changing, Western metaphysics has long been obsessed with describing reality as an assembly of static individuals whose dynamic features are either taken to be mere appearances or ontologically secondary and derivative.

Heade was particularly obsessed with hummingbirds, describing his lifelong interest as "monomaniacal".

Dickens was especially obsessed with it, describing it in several letters and even devoting a gripping passage of "Little Dorrit" to its grisly occupants.

He also reportedly says Charles Clarke had gone soft on education, Jack Straw left the Home Office in a "giant mess" and John Prescott was obsessed with being described as "Two Jags".

Mr. Iannucci said Washington was obsessed with Hollywood and described touring the White House and having a presidential aide put the Roosevelt Room into a "West Wing" context.

A sister of a 15-year-old boy allegedly tortured and drowned because his tormenters were "obsessed" with witchcraft has described the last moments of his life.

Two of Mr. Leonard's clients were so obsessed with what they described as the Zen quality of Raffles L'Ermitage that they paid for him to fly to Los Angeles and stay in the hotel to really understand the look and duplicate it at their second home in Palm Springs.

Ecott's personal exploration leads us through the history of diving, featuring those obsessed with underwater worlds and describing the perils they face.

Contrary to generally accepted views, Tolstoy portrays Napoleon as an ineffective, egomaniacal buffoon, Tsar Alexander I as a phrasemaker obsessed with how historians will describe him, and the Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov (previously disparaged) as a patient old man who understands the limitations of human will and planning.

Dr. Steven Bratman of Denver has come up with a term to describe people obsessed with health food: orthorexia.

Mr. Julius said that dealers were initially skeptical that the type of customer he described — one obsessed with beauty and performance, not price — existed.