Sentence examples for prevailing obsession from inspiring English sources

The corruption of the flesh — by age and by lust — is the prevailing obsession of Theroux's story collection.

On one hand, they use the prevailing obsession with real estate as a way to reveal their characters' moral shortcomings — their obsession with the quality of their houses, their pressing need to compete, the essential meaninglessness of their constant renovations, as if desperate to erase history and refashion homes as an outward manifestation of a self set free from the past.

Between the adored exotic birds, the boxlike space and the prevailing aura of innocence and obsession, you may leave this show feeling that you have met the Joseph Cornell of the 19th century.

Yet despite exhibiting some signs of self-obsession, young Americans are not more self-absorbed than earlier generations, according to new research challenging the prevailing wisdom.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

And, at present, quantity is prevailing.

He added that uncertainty was still prevailing.

So far, the older generation is prevailing.

They are, for the moment, prevailing.