Sentence examples for peculiar obsession from inspiring English sources

The US has a peculiar obsession with the right to bear increasingly lethal weapons.

The peculiar obsession with capturing the Olympic title, the one honour to evade them so far, has been well documented.

Punk's peculiar obsession was musical autonomy — independent labels, clubs installed in suburban garages and warehouses, flyers and fanzines photocopied after hours.

Much of the comedy derives from the eccentricities of the members, each of whom has a particular and usually peculiar obsession, and all of which eventually cause trouble of one kind or another.

It's a peculiar obsession, but aren't they always?" Ivory had asked Ishiguro to write another script, an adaptation of a novel called The Diary of a Mad Old Man by the Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki.

Dr Fraser spoke of Dr Carey's "peculiar obsession with gay sex", and there is little doubt that the more fundamentalist leading Church figures become on this issue the more they are being marginalised by their own hand, without any help from the PM.

"But put an arrow on the string and Satan himself was holding it off... strange stuff some of us endure to play this game!" Lanny Bassham, a former Olympic rifle shooter and mental coach whose clients include the Olympic archer Brady Ellison, said the archery community had a peculiar obsession with target panic, which he noted had a horrifying ring.

The Conservatives have not won a general election in "20 odd years" because of their "peculiar" obsession with Europe, Ken Clarke has said.