We're not perfectionists, but we are obsessives, and throughout our lives we've had a series of shared obsessions.
JOHANNESBURG — Henry Kissinger called me, which does not happen often, but does happen on the eve of World Cups — a reflection of a shared obsession and a fair indication that soccer (football, actually) will trump the global battle for treasure and influence over the next month, or rather transfer it to the pitch.
They call their book the "late-flowering fruit of a shared obsession".
And the two of them found a common ground, a shared obsession.
As Terfry and I rhapsodize about our shared obsession with sound, I point out Wicked and Weird's most fantastic quality - its many instances of magic.
Also, as a public man obliged to write speeches and narrate events, I agree with the illustrious writer on the delight of finding the exact word - a kind of shared and inexhaustible obsession - until the phrase fits our criteria.
Perhaps wider society is having a final feeding frenzy, before slowly moving on, with a sense of shared retrospective guilt, from its obsession with the changing nature of a woman's face.
In the decade-long, often dispiriting effort to rebuild ground zero into a place of shared communion, the placement of names was something of an obsession.
Meeting with executives to rework the concept, Mr. Williamson discovered that he and Jamie Kellner, then the chief executive of WB, shared an obsession with an obscure 1970's series devoted to occult crime.
"In an era of social sharing obsession and mediated self-absorption, gender reveals gain traction precisely because they are highly visual snapshots of parenthood".
