Also implied are consumer excess and a certain obsession with sweets, which in turn conjures up the hollow celebrations of birthdays and holidays that are among our cultural staples.
An unfortunate early ploy was to explain Brenda Leigh's personality quirks through an obsession with sweets; the writers moved away from that, but they never did make sense of her frenzied trampling of suspects' civil rights or her horrible treatment of Fritz and her parents.
An obsession with sweets.
This obsession with sweets isn't just about appetite.
Other than that, I liked HEAVE HO, and Steve Austin's LEFT EYE and KETTLELE corn in the grid reminded me of my obsession with the salty, sweet snack.
Lichtenberg and Becker appear to have an obsession with that semi-addictive sweet fizz Coca-Cola, which they treat as a kind of creeping stain of evil.
One could imagine Indian obsession with mangoes, diary and sweet getting twisted into some interesting new beverages.
Flor wasn't talking about Hercules, but about a third-year at her college named Barney Chaskel, a boy she hadn't pegged for a Bettencourter because, "Well, he's sort of low-key and makes fun of his own obsession with conspiracy theories and... he's sweet".
Cover with sweet & sour sauce.
