Sentence examples for physical obsession from inspiring English sources

This is, essentially, why disordered eating is contagious: the practice is congruent with values of restraint and physical obsession that, up to a certain point, almost always bring social rewards.

David Fricke of Rolling Stone noted that "Björk likens the human emotions – love, physical obsession, changing moods, violent hurt – in songs such as "Mutual Core", "Moon" and "Virus" to natural phenomena: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lunar phases and contagious disease".

Mr. Glass's opera largely sacrificed one of Mr. Coetzee's most compelling inventions: the Magistrate's intensely physical yet sexless obsession with the barbarian girl, which was limited to a single scene and a few wayward suggestions.

In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, his memoir-essay on obsessions physical and mental, he puts it this way: When we set off to write a novel, when we use writing to create a story, like it or not a kind of toxin that lies deep down in all humanity rises to the surface.

"There's this obsession with physical perfection.

Neil LaBute is haunted by the American obsession with physical beauty.

Three are displayed in Kettle's Yard, starting points from which to explore his obsession with physical movement.

"It's one of my major faults that I pursue physical love with such obsession," Haring said.

The play "confronts America's obsession with physical beauty headlong," according to its promotional materials, but this was no Dove commercial.

"Violet" was ahead of its time in examining the national obsession with physical beauty and transformation expressed in makeovers and cosmetic surgery.

That offered a scathing indictment of the American obsession with physical perfection, while this piece is more concerned with the minor crises of romantic entanglement.