Sentence examples for present obsession from inspiring English sources

My present obsession is a quartet of playwrights.

My present obsession is fantasy football and, lately, writing has been punctuated by checking scores, transfer rumours and injury updates (yes, on the Guardian online).

Arpaio has had a number of run-ins with his fellow-lawmen, and his present obsession with illegal immigrants has made things even more tense.

Daniel Gwirtzman will present "Obsession," a spicy piece set to Argentinian music, and "Encounter," a lyrical piece set to a Mendelssohn string quartet.

We rarely talked about the film we'd just seen; instead we discussed great works — the Rothko retrospective, Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz," Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet," whatever formed his present obsession.

Ms. Mayor, he added, has "done something no one's done before, bringing together all this material on the dirty tricks of ancient warfare, and think how relevant it is with our present obsession with weapons of mass destruction".

But the speech also addressed present obsessions.

Both the suggestion to introduce selective schools for primary school kids and the plan to level the playing field at entry were viewed through the ever-present obsession with improving our international rankings on the OECD's metrics that see Australian education standards falling as compared to other countries.

The humanities lesson moves on to consider the present-day obsession with cosmetic surgery.

Nikolaus Lehnhoff's forceful, if extreme, staging updates the scenario to suit present gender obsessions: Salvago (Robert Brubaker, in an eloquent, if unsubtle, performance) loses his hump but likes to cross-dress, and the unfortunate girls are literally children, of both sexes.

Unlike the characters, based on real people (indeed, actor Steve North hardly seems to be acting, rather presenting his obsession on a plate), I was too young to catch the Clash live but I would have killed to.