Sentence examples for obsessions as from inspiring English sources

Smear reveals another of Greenwood's obsessions: as well as strings and wind players, it's written for two ondes martenot, the weird electronic instrument so beloved of French composer Olivier Messiaen.

The items range from the humble (a set of Pernod glasses, a lounger) to the extravagant (a 74ft yacht, a small plane, a castle) and add up to an inventory of French small-town interests and obsessions, as well as a fund of anecdotes.

Beyond this, I've chosen novels that reflect, to my mind, the real qualities of adolescence: the unabashed selfishness alongside the youthful high-mindedness; the bodily obsessions as well as the romantic longings; and the callowness and yearnings for status as well as the untrammelled perceptions.

The INPIOS showed excellent known-groups validity, and it adequately represented obsessions as well as OITs.

A subgroup of the sample will also take part in an additional experience-sampling task to examine changes in positive and negative affect, distress caused by OC symptoms, insight into the unreasonableness of obsessions as well as acceptance of unpleasant feelings before and after treatment.

A woman affected by dirt- and blood- related obsessions as well as washing and cleaning compulsions explained that being mindful leads to a decreased occurrence of obsessions: "Of course, because, when I go shopping, just as an example, I go shopping.

Given the Conservative "ideological obsession" (as Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron described it) with the Right to Buy, it is unlikely to heed any warning to rethink the policy.

George has his own private obsession as well -- long-distance swimming, the colder the water the better -- that dates back to his Chicago childhood.

As a big watch nerd, I love sharing cool watches with you guys in hopes that my obsession, as unseemly as it is, will be passed from writer to reader like an STD.

[/caption] An exercise in obsession as much as art, the first-ever exhibit at Et Dérive makes me a little mad because I can't touch it.

Thought problems reported included obsessions, compulsions as well as strange behaviour.