Sentence examples for obsession with order from inspiring English sources

He gently hints at his obsession with order, but nowhere explores how, despite his intrinsic rebellious naughtiness, he managed to fall in love with a hierarchical organisation that pretends to give order to a disordered world.

It's a theme that echoes from many earlier Frayn novels like "Spies," "A Landing on the Sun" and the marvelous "Headlong" (a Booker Prize finalist) — that is, how an obsession with order and control is often bowled over by unexpected events, how the need to impose one's own certainties upon the world can lead to a comedy (or tragedy) of errors.

ROME — In Episode 2 of this season's In the Studio series, which takes you into a designer's private working space, Silvia Fendi, the creative director of accessories and men's wear for the company that bears her name, talks about her obsession with order, her first job at the company (phone operator!) and her family's special request to the president.

The Canadian obsession with order can make for strange politics, at least in an American context.

I am tempted to feel cheated by the busy-ness of our lives, by work and appointments and classes and plans -- distractions that keep me from appreciating your obsession with ordering sushi or your decision to do yoga along with the DVDs on a Saturday morning.

The title of the first novel, "The Man of Property," sums up Soames Forsyte's obsession with convention, order and ruthlessness in business - all thrown out of joint when he falls for a penniless beauty.

The story was viral dynamite (as was a similar story in the Washington Post three years ago), because chocolate is one of those foods like bacon that people feign an obsession with in order to seem funny or interesting.

Their fixations and obsessions with perfection, order, rules and procedures ensure that they rub the people on the wrong side.

Mr. Vacca has an obsession with cleanliness and order.

That Jerry Lewis was enamored to the point of obsession with "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"?

Morris focusses on Rumsfeld's tens of thousands of memoranda and zeroes in on his obsession with terminology in order to peer into the information bubble within which vast decisions are made, and to reveal the character of the man himself.