Sentence examples for obsessive pleasure from inspiring English sources

My particular, secret love is cell culture: I like looking at cells under a microscope with the obsessive pleasure of a hothouse gardener inspecting his orchids.

A nice late-career guarantee of job security for a director famous for his obsessive pleasure in making films – but there's a difference between acknowledging a film-maker as capable of drawing audiences, and seeing them as a genuine player in world cinema.

I've written about it as an instant spur to counter-canons (and posted about my own ballot, too), calling attention to its omissions and to my own including of younger directors, of comedy, of obsessive pleasures, and of titanic artists fallen out of fashion.

I found a certain obsessive-compulsive pleasure in it.

The heroine's defence of her husband is that he is a rebel whose obsessive devotion to pleasure creates, in Donald Keene's translation, "an imperishable cathedral of vice".

Boswell took the diaries and journals he had piled up in a wasted lifetime of sensual pleasures and obsessive self-regard and turned them into one of the best and most enduring books ever written.

But if you do become yet another obsessive Fowlerian epicure, remember: the pleasures of usage snobbery are best enjoyed in private.

In these times of almost impenetrable packaging and obsessive food hygiene there's added pleasure to be had from eating something that has been through many hands and possibly several generations, and survived to continue the tale.

Obsessive coding, like a drug, is pleasure with a price.

And in One Way Pendulum a legal obsessive, whose spare-time reading includes Perjury for Pleasure and Teach Yourself Torts, builds a full-scale replica of the Old Bailey in his living room.

For our part, we watched the big political parties wither away with indifference if not pleasure – who needed those gangs of outdated obsessives?