Sentence examples for obsessive research from inspiring English sources
He said that during his period of obsessive research he had conducted an affair with one of Goto's mistresses.
Originally Ms. Shear conceived of Charlie as a gay drag queen and, not surprisingly, did some obsessive research on the topic.
He stood for the principle that scholarship and the life of the mind were sustained not so much by pursuit of brilliant new inventions or obsessive research as by open, generous and creative dialogue.
But that is De Waal's undoubted talent: his charm lies in his ability to undertake obsessive research, to pile up and accrue, to involve the reader in this almost frantic travelling and note-taking and reading.
The passion of the narration, and the wealth of telling detail (the result of 17 years of obsessive research) bring vividly to life García Márquez's Colombia, and wonderfully complement the subject's own and incomplete autobiography.
He originally promised his publisher a small book on Thai snacks, disappeared for years of intensive and obsessive research, and finally came up with this remarkable and comprehensive study of Thailand's culinary traditions.
Films set to the backdrop of food are nothing new, nor is thorough, near-obsessive research for a role – just ask Dick Van Dyke (or do I mean Daniel Day-Lewis?) – and yet this new meticulous drive for the cooking in films to be echt seems to be another important marker in arcane foodism's move into the mainstream.
Given his reputation for obsessive background research, Daniel Day Lewis is probably out drilling for oil in his Wicklow back garden right now.
The literary critic Phyllis Rose has suggested that gossip "may be the beginning of moral inquiry," and Browning's body of work can be read as a demonstration of something similar: the idea that obsessive online research into the lives of other people is a generative intellectual and emotional endeavor.
He's obsessive about research but hates writing itself.
Finally, Li's obsessive networking and research on re-entering the workforce landed her a break, more familiar to 20-something college graduates: an internship.
