Both can arouse a powerful, even obsessive, fascination among the faithful, as well as a never-ending accumulation of gear.
One day, it might occur to someone, someone angry and powerful, someone obsessive and maniacal — a police chief or a gang leader, a leader of the opposition or a leader of the nation — that they, and all those who lived like them or near them, would be better off dead.
Like much of the art here, the work is meticulous, obsessive and powerful, a long way from the art stars at the fairs like FIAC, Frieze or Art Basel Miami Beach.
Close-up, the viewer encountered a compilation of lurid headlines, photographic images, family snaps, sentimental off-the-peg transfers, kitsch ornament and an obsessive vocabulary of powerful images drawn from Perry's private fantasies.
For hundreds of years it was firmly believed that only a Sabbath enforced through social legislation would keep society from sliding into a kind of unwitting slavery, protecting the vulnerable from the powerful and quashing the punitive obsessive-compulsive who lurks within us all.
It is "Freeing Your Child From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents," not "The Anxious Child".
The second of the psychologists to examine him, James Gilbertson, also felt that LaDue's threat was real: his obsessive preparation had created a powerful momentum toward action.
The most recent DJs to step up to the plate are Bristolian bass-obsessives Kahn & Neek, whose powerful and pulverising fabriclive 90 drops tomorrow.
For these people, Arnold writes, a "powerful early interest evolves into lifelong, intensive, even obsessive involvement in the talent area".
I mean, the man has gone from being Powerful Second-in-Command of Prosperous, Happy Country to Obsessive Loon Whose Monomaniacal Quest Has Led Him to the Edge of Madness.
