Sentence examples for whose obsessions from inspiring English sources
They don't begin to have the goofy vitality of, say, the frantic intellectuals of Eric Rohmer's movies -- people whose obsessions, however irritating, generate some energy.
The program, called Huddle, was conceived a couple of years ago by three Nebraska students whose obsessions were technology and Cornhuskers football.
Leading Republican politicians and the journalists who fawned over them in the rightwing press were pedlars of an "intellectually bankrupt" doctrine whose obsessions – cutting taxes, policing sexual norms, slashing government regulation – distracted from "the fundamental question" Trump had put on the agenda: "destruction of the soulless managerial class".
The songs on Bloom often materialize and disappear like miniature worlds, not so differently from the boxed fantasias of Joseph Cornell, whose obsessions with blue stained the dioramas and films he created from the shelter of his bedroom.
What Poverman has done is both more skillful and more realistic: he's painted three-dimensional characters who are as likely to do right as they are to do wrong, characters whose obsessions and actions blur the line between good and evil, whose backgrounds and circumstances justify the havoc they wreak.
He is a man obsessed, whose obsession comes unhelpfully alive during a moment of terrible pain.
Still, I was intrigued this week by the story of the developer Roy Stillman, whose obsession with a battered old printing factory from the late 1800s — and equally obsessive appreciation of art — led him to dream up the loft conversion under way on Bleecker Street in NoHo.
Financiers are unthinking brutes, whose obsession with numbers is a form of autism.
Ellen Karas stars as a bourgeois housewife whose obsession with her maid eventually unhinges her (1 20).
Steinbrenner, whose obsession with winning is legendary, claimed that winning did not seem so significant now.
It could be the perfect companion for road warriors whose obsession with dropping weight rivals that of hot-air balloonists.
