Sentence examples for obsessive enthusiasm from inspiring English sources

But then Refn would be the first to admit that his strain of obsessive enthusiasm can spill into vainglory.

The first section of the movie captures the anarchic joy and obsessive enthusiasm of metal god-worship with the same fidelity that it brings to the music itself.

In fact, Greenwood's obsessive enthusiasm for Penderecki's music, especially his still radical early work, has brought the sounds of musical modernism to new audiences in ways Penderecki could only dream of.

All I had going for me was the science Ph.D. and a slightly obsessive enthusiasm for NOVA.

He was always extremely bright and interested in technology, given to obsessive enthusiasms – the theme of his bar mitzvah was Star Wars – and curious habits, such as his penchant for wearing rubber-soled Adidas flip-flops even in the depths of winter.

Old friends say that, of late, he has lost his old, near-obsessive, enthusiasm for focus groups.

The signs are that he is no longer capable of driving himself through the endless training that maintained his unrivalled condition, that he no longer has the obsessive, unsuffering enthusiasm for it.

Two of the best are bridgetothestars.net and hisdarkmaterials.org where you can share your enthusiasm with likeminded obsessives.

That makes him a dream character for production designers, toy manufacturers, and obsessives old enough to ascribe their enthusiasm for a new Batmobile to "an interest in automotive design" rather than, say, some untreated developmental deficiency.

Rather, it was infused with classic movies (Allen describes in Weide's film his obsessive movie-going in childhood, his Bergman enthusiasm that started in his early twenties) as well as with Gershwin, old-time jazz, and serious literature, and an interest in sports and a taste for Yiddishkeit that, together, reflected the Old and New World strands of his populist, streetwise roots.

There's separation anxiety, too, especially for people like Mr. McCall, who said his enthusiasm for his Pantera "borders on the obsessive".