Sentence examples for sheer obsession from inspiring English sources

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But the sheer obsession with the idea and technology drove him to take a sabbatical (which he intends to be permanent) from his university teaching job to run this company full-time.

As Ian McEwan, who wrote about the subject in his novel Enduring Love, observed: '[De Clerambault's] just turned the heat up under a number of things that were common to all of us.' In other words, the truly scary thing about the illness is the thinness of the line that separates the near- madness of ordinary, acceptable lovesickness from the sheer madness of obsession.

A sheer, unadulterated, bloody-minded obsession with victory, argues Matt Ramirez in this piece for the Classical: Elite athletes, at their telescoped apex, all have something in common with the way in which he whittled away everything in his being that might have distracted from the narrow scope of winning.

Ferrán Adriá, the chef at el Bulli, on the northern Costa Brava, and reckoned by just about every connoisseur of cuisine to be the last word in inventive cooking says: 'In terms of sheer, mad, consuming cultural obsession with food there is nowhere like France.' And nothing quite like the severe, controlled elegance you find in ladies like Madame Loiseau.

But the exhilaration, the space, the wind, the crowd noise, and yes, once again the sheer sport, obliterated my initial obsession with the disability.

Auder was besotted by Warhol's practice as a film-maker – by Warhol's use of unadorned, unshaped, unedited reality, caught in real time; by his lifelong obsession with the sheer banality of life, his own and that of others.

What seems to excite Watt and Dickie about brewing – above and beyond their fanatical obsession with beer itself – are its sheer, unending possibilities.