Sentence examples for of obsession for from inspiring English sources

On top of everything else, it is also the day when the World Cup, a matter of obsession for some students, begins.

You describe Miyazaki as "detail-oriented to the point of obsession" — for example, he will take a trip around the world to find a perfect color that he has in his mind.

She is the eponymous muse of this book, and subject of obsession for protagonist, Paul Dukach, his boss, Homer (of "tiny, impecunious independent publishing house Purcell & Stern"), and Homer's rival, Sterling (publisher, cousin and former lover of Ida).

Lytton Strachey, the elongated and stork-like object of obsession for Gertler's lover Dora Carrington, was prepared to buy paintings for which he did not care: as a way of asserting the privilege of being able to do it.

Among the gritty commercial workhorses that have become objects of obsession for private owners, tugboats are easily the most popular in the United States, said Norman Brouwer, author of the International Register of Historic Ships.

This slickly produced video, paid for by San Franciscans for Jobs and Good Government, an independent group that supports Mr. Lee, is only the latest wave of obsession for the most recognizable feature of the city's soft-spoken mayor, his mustache.

Like his earlier, unclassifiable, fable The Love of Stones, The Cryptographer is a study of obsession, of a questing search for those things humans desire.

This is very likely when my, ummm... my kind of "freak of nature" obsession for learning, personal development and growth began to possess me.

A modern currency has many meanings for its society: It is a unit of accounting, a universal measure of price, a store of value, the representative of its country's economy, a symbol of personal success (if you have enough), an object of obsession and, for some, the source of all evil.

The prospect has become something of an obsession for the chief executive of WPP, which has held the top spot since 2008, with 2014 set to be a clash of the advertising titans.

At that time, climbing the north wall, called "the last problem of the Western Alps" by Alpinists, was something of an obsession for the Nazis in the weeks leading up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.