Sentence examples for overriding obsession from inspiring English sources
The former general's overriding obsession was retaining the army's grip on political developments.
Repeat: just three, even though it has been the overriding obsession of the chancellor, a largely supportive press and, I regret to say, many BBC interviewers.
Yet few of the Republican party's leading lights offered serious solutions to addressing the looming $14tn national debt that is the overriding obsession of the Tea Party movement.
This single focus gives the impression that it became an overriding obsession with Degas and, in the exhibition book written by the curators, regrettably little is said to put the Opera scenes in perspective within the highly diverse oeuvre of one of the masters of Western art.
There, he was first exposed to the two overriding obsessions in his life: cars and girls.
– but the play provides a fascinating glimpse of Shaffer's overriding thematic obsession.
Haines admitted that it took a "burning platform" to focus the industry on an issue - flying through volcanic ash - that had not been examined in great detail previously by an industry whose overriding safety obsession in recent years has been terrorism.
In other words, he had no overriding thematic obsessions or visual poetry or dramatic motifs — the usual hallmarks of a director given the auteur honorific.
Cautious about the mixed blessing of an overriding talent or obsession, the novel probes personal dilemmas of memory and free will.
It became her focal metaphor for the experience of sudden dire illness, as all other interests drop away save "an overriding and offensive obsession with one's own physical vulnerability".
Alexie began writing in an era dominated by the dirty realists — the unholy trinity of Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford — and his work shares with theirs a certain bluntness and rawness, an aversion to sensory description, nuance or context, and an overriding interest in (some might say obsession with) male solitude as a fount of life lessons.
