Sentence examples for unexpected obsession from inspiring English sources

But when it comes to newer acts, the list reveals an unexpected obsession with hard, beat-driven music: apparently he has been listening to the severe German minimalist Wolfgang Voigt; the off-kilter house-music producer Moodymann; and the futuristic dance-music duo Basement Jaxx.

In the most unexpected of ways, Brazil's obsession with soccer has become a potent symbol of what ails the country.

Such obsession is not completely unexpected.

In this unexpected artistic niche he found his obsession for the next 30 years.

And the genre's obsession with tradition clashes in unexpected and interesting ways with its need for glamour and novelty.

I've returned many times, for instance, to the outskirts of the Kentucky Derby, an unexpected confluence of many of my interests and obsessions.

I've returned many times, for instance, to the outskirts of the Kentucky Derby, an unexpected confluence of many of my interests and obsessions.  .

Likely Stories is Tales of the Unexpected for the 21st century – four standalone stories of obsession, sex, death and consumption with a huge cast from Rita Tushingham to Johnny Vegas.

In this wide-ranging book, Rebecca Bedell looks beyond the usual labels -- Hudson River School, Luminism, American Impressionism -- to find an unexpected continuity in 19th-century American landscape painting: its obsession with the once fashionable science of geology.

Shlian's current obsession with paper began in a rather unexpected way, when one of his faculty advisors, Anne Currier, began buying him pop-up books.

Bishop's next two novels will be published in 2014 and 2015 and the judges for the Costa prize praised Unexpected Lessons in Love as "an unflinching, darkly funny story of love, obsession and illness that is unexpected in every way".