Sentence examples for state of obsession from inspiring English sources

Americans have spent the past two years in a state of obsession with their presidential campaign.

Her problem was that she'd reach a state of obsession with the person who'd "mistreated" her.

The state of obsession provides me with a mission of sorts, a raison d'être that also staves off depression.

Whether it's tulips or the Kardashians, throughout history we have loved whipping ourselves into a state of frenzied obsession – and now the internet allows this collective fervour to exist on an unprecedented scale.

He spent every waking hour trying to make it happen, working 16-hour days in a state of miserable obsession.

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Lederman gets a quote from Joe Malone, a former Massachusetts treasurer and "major GOP player" in the state, who masterfully conjures the perfect image for this weird state of temporary obsession -- a "gapers block".

An ardent fan of Dostoyevsky, Di Benedetto is given to portraying states of extremity — of obsession, delusion, wild aggression — but without any nineteenth-century rhetorical overheating.

Zemeckis, 57, has another great obsession: state-of-the-art film-making techniques.

He thought of passing the weekend there, of the time spent in a dull, achy, ineffectual state of regret and obsession over lost moments and missed cues.

He never wrote the proposed sequel to the The Social Contract, in which he meant to deal with international politics, but he declared that existing governments lived in a state of nature, that their obsession with conquest was imbecilic, and that "if we could realize a European republic for one day, it would be enough to make it last for ever".