The phrase "wild obsession" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe an intense and passionate desire for something. For example: "He had a wild obsession with becoming a famous singer."
His lawsuit this week marches in step with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her Arizona Gone Wild legislature's obsession to defy federal authority over gun laws, health care, immigration policy, and border security.
A lifelong obsession with wild edibles.
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.
In Herzog's documentary Encounters at the End of the World, he expressed skepticism toward "tree huggers and whale huggers," while in Grizzly Man, he documented the fate of a man literally killed by his unhealthy obsession with wild nature.
'Shelagh53' says that the reputedly 'sublime depths of emotion' in Wuthering Heights 'seem like adolescent obsessions run wild in the adult world.' Someone called 'bernardlion' agrees: 'Kate Bush's rendition is much better, and also sums up the plot in eight succinct words: "I pined a lot / I cried a lot".
Another obsession was with wild nature.
A few months ago the director of the Panhandle-Plains HistoriCanyonseum in Canyon, Tex., told me in passing how his museum was frequently overrun by visiting Germans, so the curious German obsession with the Wild West — which newly arrived Americans repeatedly discover to predictable eye-rolling from Germans, for whom it's hardly news — was not exactly unknown to me.
Charts flash on television screens and computer monitors, inspire animated debate and wild expectations, and become minor obsessions.
If the jousters have committed themselves to an odd pastime, so has Joe Hutto, a Florida man whose interest in wild turkeys became something of an obsession.
Given those beauty pageant black marks and the current obsession with "girls gone wild" — Lindsay, Britney, Paris — the current crop of winners looks pretty antiseptic.
