Sentence examples for sinister obsession from inspiring English sources
Such inheritance remained a sinister obsession of German psychiatry during the 1930s and '40s.
Most seriously, she finds that her driving instructor Scott Eddie Marsann) is an angry paranoid racist who is developing a sinister obsession with her.
But Sy develops a sinister obsession with one perfect all-American family, the Yorkins, who have been coming in with their rolls of film for years.
These images have a striking intensity of mood: a Miss Haversham-like beauty mixed with intimations of sinister rituals and obsessions.
A poignant and sinister meditation on beauty, obsession and desire.
Among Lane's antecedents is the pin-sharp prose of Patricia Highsmith and the Ripley author is also an inspiration for Phil Hogan, the Observer's TV critic, whose A Pleasure and a Calling, out in March, told in the voice of that most unreliable of narrators, the small-town estate agent, is a wonderfully sinister fable of property and obsession.
Whatever the process, Notes on a Scandal, Heller's account of an almost parodically spinsterish North London teacher who befriends a glamorous younger colleague who has been having an affair with one of her pupils, was hailed as a "brilliant", "gripping", "sinister" study in loneliness and obsession.
He was on the mark when he suggested that the obsession with collecting data about human conduct would quickly turn sinister.
Presented in a sideshow setting complete with a sinister barker, "Assassins" explores inner lives of assassins whose interactions onstage suggest that the American obsession with fame plays no small part in society's obsession with violence.
"With its massive serpentine body, reptilian head, and sinister black eyes, the leopard seal looks positively prehistoric," writes Nicklen in his new book "Polar Obsession".
Schildkraut also points out that this obsession with boogeymen reduces the victims to numbers while focusing on abstract horror and sinister perpetrators.
