Sentence examples for obsessions most from inspiring English sources

Latham then embarked on a second career as an acerbic media columnist, given an open platform to pursue his long-running obsessions, most particularly his hatred of "elites", both progressive and conservative.

Noritz, who shares an apartment in Brighton Beach with three chinchillas, four hamsters, seven guinea pigs, fifteen birds, two iguanas, a pair of rabbits, a turtle, a terrier, and a tankful of tropical fish, is a man happily governed by his obsessions, most of which involve athletics.

In American fiction, those coming close to Oblonsky's obsession most often seem to be detectives.

Not only is the crescendo of food-obsession (most acutely seen at Christmas) an orgy of gluttony: it is also, in so many cases, a source of the oppression of women.

Hawks had his obsessions, as most artists do — the combat between young and old, the literal battle of the sexes, the possibility of redemption — and his varied approaches to them convey an artist's nuanced insight into his experience.

It is here that Mr. McElwee's "Bright Leaves" touches the theme in his films that, for all their parochial preoccupations and personal obsessions, is most universal: the question of what we can hope to preserve in memory, and what can be sustained only through the ordinary business of getting on with life.

Stillness is Gedney's great obsession, his most lasting theme.

Physical books have been a passion, even an obsession, for most of my life.

It has been the obsession behind most of Peckpinpah's other films.

Christmas plays to two Japanese traits: an ingrained culture of gift-giving, and an obsession with most things Western.

Owning the Underground Like the subway obsession of most of those I talked to, mine grew out of the experiences of my youth.