Sentence examples for violent obsession from inspiring English sources
That novel's theme of monomaniacal, violent obsession and the Shakespearean cadences of its prose underline what is happening on screen in a way that is only occasionally heavy-handed.
A penetrating fictional biography of Robert Schumann, the Romantic composer who died in a madhouse in 1856 after a life of sometimes violent obsession with music and with the piano teacher's daughter he married.
Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
A penetrating fictional biography of Robert Schumann, the Romantic composer who died in a madhouse in 1856 after a life of sometimes violent obsession with music and with Clara, the piano teacher's daughter who became his wife.
Maupassant brings it out from behind the curtain with a brazenness that spans café-table ribaldry and biological tragedy, whispered refinements and violent obsessions.
R. A. Nelson's eerie "Teach Me" (2005) explored an 18-year-old student's violent obsessions after an affair with her teacher.
Do such drugs cause mania and violent obsessions?
The emphasis is on humor and light adventure rather than the American obsession with violent battles against crime and evil.
There is a ghost in the play -- Natalie's former boyfriend and obsession, the violent Tommy Chris McGarryy), who died two years earlier, not long after she borrowed $2,700 from him to buy her wedding dress.
Even while he was South Africa's golden boy, with his cabinet full of medals and his creditable attempts to compete against the able-bodied elite, tales abounded of his craziness, his insane risk-taking, his propensity for violent outbursts and his obsession with firearms.
Inspired by the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, Michael Winterbottom's The Face of an Angel - which has had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival - explores the media and public's obsession with violent stories.
