Sentence examples for particular obsessions from inspiring English sources

His particular obsessions and visions are stranger--more radical--than the electorate may know.

Like his peers, he reinterpreted traditional elements of Italian culture in his objects: his particular obsessions being Piranesi's etchings, Palladio's architecture and Pirandello's plays.

A fond comedy about losers and delusionals, this fearless dive into the very particular obsessions of the waning subculture of tabletop gaming — which involves specialized dice and hand-painted figurines — has plenty of humor but no satirical bite.

The piece not only concerns Seurat's particular obsessions, but also extends itself to the problems of art-making more generally, of the detriments and dividends of devoting oneself to creative work.

It was neither the first nor the most famous episode devoted to the show's fiercely intelligent, spiky-haired eight-year-old middle child but, for pop-culture addicts who love outspoken female characters and recall the particular obsessions and anxieties that come with being a girl of grammar-school age, it was certainly one of the most provocative.

These effects and the attendant ethos of skeuomorphism (the use of redundant visual metaphors in design, eg the fake leather stitching on the iOS diary) had been particular obsessions of Steve Jobs, but with their disappearance it seems that it was only the ferocious drive and character of Apple's founder that had kept the aesthetic afloat.

Food is a particular obsession.

His particular obsession is with technical innovation.

One correctional officer became a particular obsession.

That was my particular obsession with Steven.

Her particular obsession was the environment.