Sentence examples for set of obsessions from inspiring English sources

Each building incubates another set of obsessions.

You need bonds beyond sex: a community, a culture, a shared set of obsessions.

Like Poe's work, Highsmith's has been hamstrung among critics by its limited set of obsessions — murder, impersonation, mystery, and suspense.

Designing a restaurant, O'Neal says, engages all their skills through a variety of mediums: "It's a whole new set of obsessions every six to eight months, perfect for our A.D.D. tendencies".

One of the things that distinguishes the best filmmakers is a set of obsessions; Silver's obsessions are focussed on small institutions, closed spaces, families and their tightly organized surrogates, and the explosive volatility of relationships that arise within them.

For example, a child may report that she still experiences "a lot" of obsessions.

What Fincher, with his acute eye for human wretchedness, will make of Ellroy's 40s-set tale of obsession is enough to set the nerves jangling already.

A startling Glasgow-set drama of obsession and revenge, Red Road centres on an operator of the city's myriad CCTV cameras - emotionally disconnected until a face from the past appears on her screens.

A 1980 feature-length interview with Sirk, "From UFA to Hollywood," a splendid extra on a two-disk set of his "Magnificent Obsession" (Criterion), from 1954 — the film that made Rock Hudson a star and brought new life to the soppy genre of "women's pictures" — distills the director's artistry and offers a lesson in moviemaking.

Ralph Lauren's slim-fitting cable cashmere pullover has become the sweater set's obsession of the season, with women snapping up the cozy crew necks in every hue.

The first, which recalls Cynthia Ozick's story "Rosa," is a limpid, deeply felt account of a former war refugee's life in Toronto; the second, which recalls one of Muriel Spark's acerbic fictions, is a coy, carefully crafted tale of obsession, set in London and told by an American academic.