Sentence examples for real obsession from inspiring English sources

Reicher's real obsession is water.

Self-harm became a real obsession.

Her real obsession, she admitted, was death.They had tussled for a long time.

We were sports-crazy in my family, but the real obsession was always school.

To an outsider who recently moved to London, it felt like a crash course in that most clichéd, yet real, obsession of the English: class.

I had my favorites in both those genres, but I was eager to educate myself in the two genres that were my real obsession.

"I had a couple of real obsessions with worlds I wanted to explore dramatically," Jane Tranter, the head of BBC Worldwide Productions, which is producing the show, said recently.

Bashō's own references to this time are vague; he recalled that "at one time I coveted an official post with a tenure of land", and that "there was a time when I was fascinated with the ways of homosexual love": there is no indication whether he was referring to real obsessions or fictional ones.

But "froth" – like "frothy," which has become more common since May – has the added virtue of describing the nation's real estate obsession in a more nuanced way than "bubble" does.

"This is history", one schoolteacher said as he switched on the television to let his students watch the verdict, a moment many at the time probably thought would be that generation's moon landing.It's nice that what seem to be the closing chapters of the OJ saga haven't been a real national obsession.

"I look at my real estate obsession two ways," says Sharon King Hoge, writer, former TV newswoman, and the editor of verdant mag.com, a "green" online magazine, as well as the owner of eight properties, from upstate New York to rural Ireland.