Sentence examples for obsessions as a from inspiring English sources

But Nunn's two prime obsessions as a director are Shakespeare and musicals; and I still believe the latter occupied too much stage time.

In some ways the car can be seen simply as an extension of Mr. Prince's obsessions as a prodigious collector of Americana, from first editions of Kerouac, Mario Puzo and many others to manuscripts, photos, pulp fiction, comics and magazines.

Preoccupied by social questions — his essential obsessions as a youth were music and the education of poor children, and for years he did social work — he was excited by the philosophy of science at a time when Einstein's physics was new, and had about it a world-changing, everyone's-talking-about-it thrill.

I back to the hilt his attack on Heat magazine and celebrity culture, but he undermines the critique by positing his own nerdy obsessions as an alternative.

Lan sees her teacher's obsession as a loftier pursuit.

A third is his obsession, as a former baseball entrepreneur, with the importance of team spirit.

All of which, Ms. Shear said, also informed her knowledge of obsession as a concept itself.

Ms. Alexo described her husband's obsession as a "sickness" -- but one she has come to empathize with.

Critics see the obsession as a step backward in a country where women have made impressive headway in recent decades.

His obsession, as a grown man, is with proving the connection between a blemished body and the mother's experience.

The Criterion Collection has issued both versions of "Magnificent Obsession" as a double-disc set, a release similar to Universal's pairing of the Stahl (1934) and Sirk (1959) versions of "Imitation of Life" last February.