Sentence examples for religious obsession from inspiring English sources
We follow the adorably unusual romantic lead Oscar (all gangling limbs, "long-stretched neck", religious obsession and compulsive gambling) on a gloriously picaresque journey.
Though in the past Rabin hasn't seemed a likely peacemaker, he does not have a religious obsession with the Occupied Territories, in contrast with the Likud Party.
In amid the jokes about lesbian cuisine and the Welsh mining community's near religious obsession with bingo, Beresford doesn't skimp from addressing the devastation that will face the miners if the pits close.
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As the largest murder-suicide in American history, the Jonestown massacre has become an indelible part of cultural myth, shorthand for blind faith and a cautionary tale about religious obsession.
This summer, my reading list includes "Comeback," "Butcher's Moon" and "Backflash" by Donald Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, the most recent Parker novels reissued by the University of Chicago Press; and Milton Rokeach's "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti," an inquiry into schizophrenia and religious obsession published in 1964 and back in print from NYRB Classics.
The first section of the CY-BOCS assesses current and life-long presence of common obsessive and compulsive symptoms (e.g., religious obsessions, contamination worries, checking, counting, and cleaning).
But how does this temperamental quirk link up with his religious obsessions?
| The elderly Leo Tolstoy Christopher Plummerr) and his religious obsessions are at the center of Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station" (Dec. 4).
"It's a rebellion against the family life and religious obsessions [which are] built into Indian culture," he says.
Other obsessions include unwanted thoughts, a fear of harming oneself and religious obsessions, all of which I've struggled with at one point or another.
