We're not perfectionists, but we are obsessives, and throughout our lives we've had a series of shared obsessions.
If the buildings looked different one from another, they shared an obsessive concern for design.
Another pair — one brought up Jewish, in Trinidad, and the other Catholic, in Nazi Germany, where he joined the Hitler Youth — wore blue shirts with epaulets and four pockets, and shared peculiar obsessive behaviors, such as flushing the toilet before using it.
The two artists undeniably share an obsessive interest in painting the same building, from the same angle of view, over and over again.
Manny is one of 60,000 guys who share an obsessive online passion for a game called "Runner" and for Lena, its hot-looking virtual heroine.
The difference, Hughes says, is that, while they share an obsessive approach, Ramprakash, certainly at international level, was hamstrung by self-consciousness, an inability to clear his mind, and give himself to the task in hand, presenting a tortured figure at the crease, contrasted with the blithe Smith.
He is disappointed I don't appear to share his obsessive interest in sheep, though even I, after a couple of hours, can tell a prize Herdwick (strong body, thick legs, well-defined head, proud deportment) from a run-of-the-mill one.
I'm a huge Ryan Adams fan, so when you log on to your email and see there's a song no-one else has heard by one of your favourite artists, it's really thrilling". So does he share the obsessive nature of Juliet, Naked's antagonist Duncan - who thirsts after unreleased recordings and concert bootlegs from his musical hero?
In addition to their common homosexuality, Alison and Bruce Bechdel share obsessive-compulsive tendencies and artistic leanings, albeit with opposing aesthetic senses: "I was Spartan to my father's Athenian.
The president and Mr. Gardner respected each other and shared an almost obsessive interest in education, but Washington insiders said there were strains between the two strong-minded men, and Mr. Gardner was too reserved and low key for the flamboyant circle of Johnson cronies.
