The obsession with upholding tradition has strengthened the common perception of tennis as an elitist hobby. |
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Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour. |
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And why this unseemly obsession with the Reformatories, when the Reformatories were peripheral to this story? |
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The psychic unease that Faulkner weaves into Quentin's obsession with the girl foreshadows an ill-omened conclusion. |
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It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre. |
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Stylistically there's the same obsession with mirrors, and the typical eye-candy imagery. |
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My father was an architectural historian, so I was pulled into archaeology and an obsession with Egyptology very early. |
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Because of his obsession with this movie, he was deemed insane with extreme masochistic tendencies. |
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Thus, the novel's obsession with sympathy and its thematization of philanthropy are part of the same project. |
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The idea of an art exhibition on the theme of beauty pageants might seem odd at first, but in Venezuela beauty queens are a national obsession. |
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If going to the US is an obsession for many, getting a green card thereafter is a dream. |
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Our TV channels increasingly reflect the great British public's obsession with homes and gardens and the lavishing of resources thereon. |
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Does he ever wonder if maybe by now he should have grown out of his grand obsession with football? |
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Henry's hat obsession began on his 21st birthday, when he was given a baseball cap as a present. |
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He has written to the Berlin-based national association of advertising agencies telling them their obsession with Scottish meanness is damaging. |
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The fun is all in the self-absorbed self-abuse, the modern rules of attraction and dating, and a complete over-the-top obsession with music. |
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This was mitigated by Scotland's commitment, obsession even, with learning and self-improvement. |
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Given the Wilsons' obsession with turning back the clock, Steve's passion for collecting and re-creating vintage timepieces seems appropriate. |
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His obsession has prompted him to produce a book that contains the conspiracy theory to beat all conspiracy theories. |
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Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities. |
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She has a major obsession to end all ethnic conflicts and separatist movements throughout the country. |
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Ahab, on the other hand, is a spoiler, whose obsession with the white whale sets him against this process, morally and materially. |
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The counterpart of the English and Scottish passion for painted portraits was an almost equal obsession with sculpted effigies on tombs. |
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Hip-hop, trance music, disco, and house quickly became an obsession for her. |
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The literary essays chronicle a bibliomaniac's passion and obsession with naming and collecting. |
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I don't have any kind of morbid obsession, but I just want to be in my death bed thinking I tried to be alive. |
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I know that I will always have to write. It's more than a compulsion or obsession. |
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For many, the most traumatic and painful part of the disorder is the constant obsession with food and weight. |
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The story travels well, indicating that sports obsession is a universal quality. |
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The drama has many trenchant things to say about New Labour's obsession with style over substance. |
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But what is the real impact on the home front of our obsession with fashionable and vogue trends? |
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Japan's obsession with energy efficiency started when the oil shocks of the 1970s ended two decades of double-digit growth. |
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Listening to the seamless blend of this new album, it's easy to assume the mixmaster is indulging in a lifelong musical obsession. |
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What won't be unusual to many is the banal content of Warhol's utterances, his obsession with trivialities, and his seeming shallowness. |
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Is showbiz's obsession with youth the only reason why getting old frightens her? |
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Louis XIV's obsession with grandeur expanded to other aspects of life, including art. |
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How tragic is this modish contempt for the past and obsession with the sensation of the present. |
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When imitation becomes obsession, it's normally a destructive force, but, sometimes it pays dividends. |
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The American obsession with dieting dates back to 1961, when a housewife who was seriously obese began casting around for diets. |
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Hopefully the story of her recovery will reach many young women suffering from our cultural obsession with being ultra-thin. |
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Due to the fact that it's more an obsession than plain passion I call myself a photoholic. |
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And as always, his obsession with skateboards and skate parks were manifest in his attire. |
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The answers almost certainly can be found in our obsession with compliance and the uncontrolled whims of fund managers. |
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In other words, Miguel's ex struck a balance between teen fashion's obsession with skimpiness and some actual good taste. |
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An obsession with hair is a peculiar undercurrent throughout films of this genre. |
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The year-old murder case is pretty interesting, but it's not likely to become a full-blown, wall-to-wall media obsession like the Simpson saga. |
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It is unexceptionable to note that an obsession with violence has always been characteristic of American movies. |
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In retrospect, he chalked up his past obsession with Charlotte to puppy love, and wanting her simply because she belonged to his brother. |
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Surely this pensive fairytale of metaphysical obsession reaches the deepest abysses of ecstasy and darkness. |
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Thanks to a small obsession, I've discovered that the site has it's very own Googlewhack. |
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She doesn't have any really obsession for writing stories anymore, the virus attack was just a nail in the coffin. |
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The Indian's obsession for politics and politicians remains unmatched by people of any nationality. |
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For them, the settling of scores with the miners developed into an obsession bordering on the deranged. |
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And with some early models now coming in at under a thousand smackers, our love might just turn into obsession. |
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His more recent vehicle, the Hunter Foundation, is a creature born of his obsession with Carnegie. |
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Fashion's current obsession with all things 1960s makes bouffant hair a big trend. |
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But I don't think that it's Beckham's bouncebackability alone that explains our national obsession with him. |
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We chat a lot and share an obsession with goals and the art of goalscoring. |
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The term antiquarian tends to carry negative connotations nowadays, of someone with a naive or unsophisticated obsession with the past. |
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He had an ordinary childhood and excelled in the Army, where an obsession with neatness and fitness impressed commanders. |
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It was not love that he held for me, only obsession and I was unwise to not have notice this and blindly believe him. |
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Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing. |
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The Greeks like the idea of backgammon, a national obsession, or paradosiaki hori, their traditional dancing. |
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I'm impressed by the solitary intensity of the gamblers, and the way these solipsists at the slots form a community of obsession. |
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He soloed in an airplane before getting his driver's license, but his real obsession was designing and building model planes. |
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Why not write a book in praise of the obsession, celebrating the neurosis at the heart of all literature? |
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I could say that he is stuck in Mattoon, in the past, and this quiet obsession with what is gone and can be nevermore is sad, almost tragic. |
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Taylor connects the postmodern obsession with the body as a form of reaction and resistance to the felt dematerialization of virtual culture. |
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Such are the quirks of youth that can herald sudden fancies, and occasionally sow the seeds of a lifetime's obsession. |
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His own obsession began when he was a boy and saw a huge bull shark brought ashore on the Miami Beach docks, still breathing. |
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Their spiritual leader is a vulturish photographer and scientist named Vaughan, played with intricate obsession by Montreal actor Elias Koteas. |
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His obsession with place and status had brought his career to an ironic and tragic end. |
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There is an obsession with details among all the best managers that is notably absent in McCarthy. |
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So what if it is all about forbidden love and doomed sexual obsession for a pre-pubescent nymphet. |
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Tom Thorn is a Victoria writer who harbours an unnatural obsession with sports obscurities. |
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But Haig was also a progressive who shared the Edwardian obsession for efficiency. |
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Its success may depend in part on our abiding obsession with England's victory 38 years ago. |
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I do not understand your obsession with the fool's gold that is electronic journal publishing. |
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As the majority of my salary was swallowed up by my obsession, I ended up borrowing a lot of money to make ends meet. |
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The American obsession with therapy may almost be considered as a neurosis in its own right. |
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When vision becomes unshakeable obsession, the potential for catastrophe may not be far away. |
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Thus, it appears that our obsession with this imaginary family is flourishing healthily online! |
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Hers is a story of conspiracy and obsession, courtroom battles and ambition. |
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It can, however, be used as a pry bar to keep one from obsession if wielded in a certain way. |
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As a critique of brand obsession and consumer fashion, it was a masterpiece. |
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Still, the fascination of the Scottish press with whether she is up the duff borders on obsession. |
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The Party's high command is now bordering on obsession in its concern over how to avoid a low voter turnout. |
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Argan is a hypochondriac and so his obsession with the match is far from selfless. |
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She didn't know what else to say, she couldn't relate to this obsession with grades. |
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Its narrator is a 23-year-old woman whose obsession with cannibalism may be more than academic. |
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He'd also became fond of switching lights on and off to the point where it was almost an obsession. |
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Her one-track mind and obsession with the sport makes her sound like a certain German racing driver who won't settle for second best. |
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The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity. |
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The real nub of the show is Madonna and our obsession with fame and celebrity. |
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The well-established obsession of late medieval chivalry with heraldry, orders and tournaments became overwhelmingly apparent. |
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Alongside the obsession with test results goes an insistence on discipline and harsh punishment of bad behaviour. |
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The obsession of kite flying can also be seen in competitive kite challenges. |
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They target a variety of subjects, including formalism in art, our current obsession with terrorism, and American overabundance. |
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Her obsession with belonging and entitlement prompt her to overcompensate for attributes she lacks. |
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Providing a much-needed platform for Hindi theatre was an obsession for her. |
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The rest is superficial, a blight of the modern obsession with looks and image. |
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Film has become a pandemic obsession throughout our culture and even throughout the world. |
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The obsession with svelte figures flies in the face of past beliefs that regarded those who were thin as being unhealthy and malnourished. |
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The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance. |
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William Wilberforce's obsession with ending the slave trade was viewed as swivel-eyed by the establishment of his day. |
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Even in our supposedly classless age, class remains an English obsession that refuses to go away. |
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I think that's one of the reasons that the home run derby has become such a pathological obsession over the last couple of seasons. |
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Of course, America's critics regard the country's obsession with sovereignty and self-government as anachronistic and pathological. |
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Concentrating all our energies on one physical act, our obsession results in temporary immobilization. |
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It revealed a disgusting and shocking obsession with sexual perversion involving young female children. |
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This obsession has made me so eccentric that I've become rather impassive towards what others are up to. |
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We bring to our efforts a fanatical obsession with quality and exclusivity. |
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Given society's obsession with image, it is hardly surprising that we're a little picky when it comes to grocery shopping. |
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Her obsession with feminine appearance indicates the degree to which she internalized and responded to the social codes of her day. |
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That quirk also gave him repetition compulsions and an obsession about praying. |
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The images all refer to the fetishistic obsession Western science has with classification based on visual evidence. |
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The obsession with the far right tells us far more about insecure and uncertain elites than it does about political reality on the ground. |
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This incessant obsession with inside baseball serves no purpose beyond distracting people. |
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The construction of her own house back home in Belgium is her current obsession. |
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His obsession with ice skating began as a child growing up in Bristol, where he showed an early flair for dancing. |
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It's a poignant, almost heartbreaking portrait of urban American loneliness, alienation and obsession. |
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The flip side of Bob's obsession was a feeling of fury that overcame him when he hit a shot that didn't meet his expectations. |
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The area's obsession with flowers means local florists are burning the midnight oil just to keep up with demand. |
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Guy's obsession for Virginia seems inexplicably foolish when aimed at an actress with a face like a flounder and a talent to match. |
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English post-punk was my obsession and Peel provided the only historical evidence of some of these bands. |
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Fear, greed and sexual obsession tangle in a plot that has more twists than a curl of smoke traveling through a double helix. |
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All of a sudden, this little obsession of mine seem to have grown into a full-blown schoolboy crush. |
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Cybercrooks capitalising on the public obsession with celebrities and current events is nothing new. |
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Caesar is a selfmade man with a pistol strapped to his hip, whose obsession with law and order has made him brutal and power-hungry. |
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They are typically blessed with a good sense of humour, an obsession with sport and a weakness for gargle. |
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Others have argued that an obsession with preserving the past leads to an inability to think in a broader economic context. |
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They take no note of us in their obsession, bumping us, turning gloweringly aside. |
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His obsession with clocks spurred him to buy a job lot of returned timepieces from Ikea, which he has transformed into an art installation. |
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Creating a show specifically for teenagers, Irvine and Mcleary decided to capitalise on the adolescent obsession with the gothic. |
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The dominant colonial obsession with race and racial distinctions of all kinds sometimes fed into the ideas of the dominated. |
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Hearing a slight noise to her left, she wheeled round again and stormed along the corridor, cursing Brunton's obsession with mazes. |
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When not out with Sanura, Kira spent most of her time in her room and whiled the time away by expressing her obsession through her art. |
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What Benton's mechanics do, in other words, is to aestheticize the country's industrial-age obsession with efficient movement. |
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He claims the lack of leadership in the business and political world is due to an obsession with populism, which is disenabling the whole system. |
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Adie's fall from grace was not the result of sexism, ageism or an obsession with celebrity-led reporting. |
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Ji said that the sudden crisis will aggravate people's mental problems if they are prone to depression, obsession and anxiety. |
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His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession. |
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Despite my polite rebuff, Adam returned to my cell door a week later and eagerly divulged his deplorable obsession. |
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The second tale was also to do with predators, and the present obsession with preserving every hawk and buzzard on the wing. |
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Aside from genetics, there can be other worrisome effects of an obsession with trophies. |
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The increasing popularity of labioplasty suggests that the appearance of the nether regions is becoming something of an obsession for some. |
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Taking over the state broadcasting system became an all-consuming obsession. |
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Pandering to the great British obsession with train sets, here you not only play stationmaster but engine driver, yardmaster and route builder. |
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In other words, I think that rural people are pragmatic and contemptuous of the left's seeming obsession with expensive esoterica. |
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His daughters said that while Mr. Salay was softspoken, he had a minor obsession with a very loud color. |
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Ron's obsession with bagatelle could only come from an experienced practitioner of the old game. |
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The band wasn't always so bent on retro-futurism, but the obsession was always present. |
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The UK government's obsession with tackling antisocial behaviour is making society even more lonely and fragmented. |
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The Modernist obsession with control is superseded by a more responsive, flexible armature for different sorts of activities. |
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In a film dealing with our obsession with youth and beauty, it's refreshing to see an actress who actually looks her age. |
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This intense study of obsession is not for the faint-hearted, but his tough and complex music has some unexpected moments of luculent beauty. |
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For one whose obsession has been certifiable by the commissioners of lunacy, here surely instead was proof of pure sanity. |
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He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession. |
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Ms Taylor has spoken about how her daughter spent a lot of time in suicide chatrooms with a macabre obsession with death. |
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His job, and his obsession, is collecting and trading in the autographs of celebrities. |
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Also, his obsession with time and punctuality does get old after a while, at times threatening to turn the character into a one-trick pony. |
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Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds. |
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The result is an assembly of drawings, etchings and digital prints representing a 50-year long obsession. |
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Is Barbie responsible for so many girls' obsession with the perfect white wedding, long before the man in question comes on the scene? |
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His maniacal obsession with work, and the contained fury of his working methods, are beautifully conveyed. |
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His privacy is his most treasured possession, an obsession that borders on maniacal. |
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Not to stop with a portable television, mini table fan, handgrips in steel chains, the rider shows his obsession for siren and mini cone speaker. |
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Coupled with dilution in ethical values there is this dramatic reduction in the obsession with the ritual. |
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This intense study of obsession is not for the faint-hearted, but Alban Berg's tough and complex music has some unexpected moments of luculent beauty. |
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From Janay Rice to Christy Mack to Rihanna, our obsession with celebrity victims has reached an all-time high. |
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The big parties' election manifestos also reflect this obsession. |
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This in a time when there was an obsession with structural monumentalism. |
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This windswept sheep-filled archipelago off the coast of Southern Patagonia remains an argentine obsession. |
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Hollywood is gripped by an obsession so all-consuming that no blockbuster is safe from its brooding influence. |
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His parents, Jack and Sarah, indulged him in this obsession. |
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Using a compass to create hundreds of circles in delicate works on paper, Hesse carried Minimalist repetition and seriality to the point of obsession. |
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During the 1990s, when health and nutrition became somewhat of a national obsession, many health-conscious individuals started seeking out organics. |
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Has this famed perfectionist workaholic chef found a new obsession? |
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A look back at his work would reveal a persistent obsession with pain, suffering and the sinisterly hypnotic potential of martyrdom to provoke and inspire. |
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As with America's obsession with handguns, it will take more than a few high school pupil massacres to shift the ingrained attitudes of this blinkered lobby. |
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Even if we momentarily share their obsession and even if we stick to the old texts, unbacked by any harder evidence, the accepted view does not bear much scrutiny. |
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The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight. |
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Readers of my last letter will probably, apart from describing the scripts in a mood of cynical contempt, realise my obsession with trees and greening the city. |
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If all else fails, you may even want to arrange an intervention with people she trusts, like girlfriends who know about her obsession with weight. |
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No it's not an obsession, it is the fact that never has a footballer's sheer skill so intoxicated me as that of the spindly-legged waif from Belfast. |
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Nothing reveals this more clearly than the sequence where Fred glides toward the darkness of a hallway with such intensity, fascination, intrigue and obsession. |
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A potted explanation of what has become his obsession is as follows. |
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It's also a searing indictment of modern society's obsession with spin. |
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George's latest work, funded during a fit of good sense by the Rockefeller Foundation, carries his obsession with earthly, fleshly things into the literal stratosphere. |
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First and foremost, it portrays a man in love with the animals and the wilderness, who has escaped a life of depression and alcohol addiction through his ursine obsession. |
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I think his obsession with patricide should occupy him at present. |
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So how did this obsession with theory and preparation actually come about? |
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Certainly grotesque characters populate the world, as in all of the Coens' films, but a lot of the film ultimately centers on Ed's obsession with cleanliness. |
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A major focus of the book is its subject's obsession with building a multipolar balance-of-power among the United States, China and the Soviet Union. |
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I was surprised to hear of Brando's strange obsession with living forever, even studying gene therapy and cryogenics in an effort to prolong his life. |
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Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment. |
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Despite the film's mild obsession with the male member, it contains enough entertaining moments and individual performances to justify its existence. |
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Lidos, or outdoor pools, were built in the Twenties and Thirties by city fathers inspired by the German obsession with outdoor physical exercise and sunshine. |
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In their time, Brent and Barbara have experimented with a wide range of plants, but their obsession is for cycads, a winning trend in gardening today. |
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It is, they cheerfully admit, an obsession that dominates their lives. |
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Graffiti is something of a tiresome obsession with young Berliners. |
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Is our current food obsession unhealthy, a sign of decadence even? |
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Hunting and hawking were popular among the gentlemen of early Tudor England because they enjoyed it, but there was more to this interest than the obsession of the enthusiast. |
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A number of these historians have remarked on the extent to which the very fluidity of the gentry's social composition promoted its obsession with form. |
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I would call it an unhealthy obsession, except I have too many of my own. |
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The death of the gargantuan Hummer marks the passing of our obsession with largeness. |
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After five years of concerning levels of obsession, what are we going to do without the brilliant AMC drama? |
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His lifelong obsession with elegance and order, he said, led him to concoct sexy results that journals found attractive. |
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Forgive the tonsorial obsession, for which there are two reasons. |
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She talks to Marlow Stern about our obsession with celebrity, her consultation with Kanye West, our shrinking privacy, and more. |
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Once poker was a game played by chain-smoking, visor-wearing social oddities with rolls of cash and an obsession for cards which bordered on addiction. |
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This obsession with food choice often leads people to cut out the wrong ones, proliferating the continuation of new diets. |
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His wife, Lori, belittles his obsession and ridicules his dreams. |
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The opponents know this deep down, or at least fear it, and that is the true reason for their choleric obsession. |
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Though the family obsession with privacy required that much be left out, Carrington had done the essential spadework, and all subsequent biographers are indebted to him. |
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With a spreadsheet and an obsession with basketball, Jeff Stotts can predict how long it will take a battered athlete to return. |
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He was fascinated by the actress and tracking her every move had become an obsession. |
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Our readerly obsession with authorial judgments, psychological and moral, ideological and political, easily misses this paradox inherent in novel writing. |
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They also have a small obsession with malt, and use four kinds at the bakery. |
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What else could be the explanation for my obsession with spelling bees? |
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Blue Leaves also attracted Stiller with its prescience about our society's obsession with fame. |
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Once I get going I'm sure it will turn into a selling obsession. |
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But he follows his obsession, and goes to great lengths in doing so, peeping through keyholes and lurking in the bushes with binoculars in an effort to satisfy his curiosity. |
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I am certain that an obsession with sport does more harm than good. |
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This is no longer only the obsession of trashy magazines and tabloids. |
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Personally, I have a news habit that possibly borders on obsession. |
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My obsession with TRL, like most preteen obsessions, was entirely un-ironic. |
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Zwillich knew the image would lay bare his trekkie obsession to friends and followers. |
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Marnell makes no effort to disassociate her drug use from her body-image obsession. |
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Precisely because of their obsession with numbers and data, they are dispassionate about social issues. |
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A man is lured into a fatal obsession when he is hired to make a sealskin bag for a woman born with her heart outside her body. |
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His new love was Sara Lowndes, a former Playboy bunny girl whom he married in 1965, although his obsession with privacy prevented them being photographed together. |
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Nicki treats the obsession with her pop ambitions as an irrelevant, surface-level irritation. |
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What started out as a genuine interest in becoming healthier quickly developed into an obsession. |
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The Unauthorized Story seemed to make that latter question hard to answer, our obsession hard to defend. |
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The first exploration of Canada's interior was for the purpose of finding beaver pelts to satisfy the obsession with fur coats by the European elite. |
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The one thing I have a little bit of a problem with is I don't quite understand this obsession about doing remakes and making television series into feature films. |
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Lauren Conrad has become synonymous with the doughnut bun, an obsession with pearls, peachy glossed lips, and a milky manicure. |
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Mania, they were told, is simply the Italian translation of the word obsession, and anyway it's pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. |
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I wonder, if the Government does pursue its obsession with renationalising business in New Zealand, how it will protect freight on the rail network. |
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Smith's obsession with an uncomfortable, discordant childhood compels her to replay the scenes of trauma over and over again, hoping each time for a different ending. |
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If anything, it's closer to Andy Warhol's obsession with self-conscious celebrity, a world where apparently unqualified people could be turned into media icons. |
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Our obsession with shopping is standing in the way of financial security. |
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The administration's obsession with loyalty has also kept the administration from anointing a physician already in government as chief medical spokesperson. |
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Any 30 year old Tennis player would be well within his rights to be a little worried about this obsession, but Tim will never go short on Rhubarb Crumble and chunky Cardigans. |
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The biggest problem with meritocratic thinking is its obsession with who has earned what. |
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How is one to explain Europe's obsession with the United Nations on the one hand, and its emasculation of the principles on which that organization was founded? |
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The Bling Ring is visceral, elegantly shot, and acerbic, as it probes the dark side of celebrity obsession. |
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What strange obsession drives the authors of grisly true-crime books? |
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She has an unnatural obsession with lipgloss and the colour purple. |
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But I can't help disliking our modern obsession with buying things. |
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But that frankness also reveals a frenetic, debilitating obsession with physical intimacy. |
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Her coded critique of Ricardian economics, with its adherence to Say's Law and obsession with saving, I will argue, forms the philosophical armature of The Mill on the Floss. |
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As for the second, there are growing signs that the present approach, with its obsession with speed as the cause of road death and injury, is misplaced and excessive. |
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This focus seems to have gone from a useful shorthand to an obsession. |
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As an adulthood now living out his passion, his dedication sometimes borders on obsession. |
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The characters continued to cheat on their spouses, let money become their obsession, and debated the American dream for the hopes of one day obtaining happiness. |
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Their ideas, vulgarized, tended to inspire and reinforce that obsession with the occult and the mystical which became noticeable in St Petersburg society. |
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The Dodsons' obsession with wills and funerals depicts their view of death as a great final summing-up, a logical extension of a measured, prudent, and frugal life. |
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While the obsession with risk shows little sign of abating, there is a large and diverse audience for critical voices in discussions about this trend. |
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A commendable campaign against an ill-considered planning decision seems to have been hijacked by a bunch of tree-hugging show-offs with a childish obsession with fancy dress. |
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And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away. |
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This woman turns out to be the only person who truly understands him and his work, and signals the beginning of a desperate, passionate obsession for both of them. |
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Her current obsession is Harry Potter, so the guest of honor at her birthday party will be a make believe Hermione Granger. |
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I know we terribly sophisticated Europeans tend to be very sniffy about America's obsession with 40-lane highways but you can get around the place. |
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Jordan Younger knew her raw vegan diet had become an unhealthy obsession when she started avoiding going out with friends. |
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I just have this personal mental obsession with the hulk being an Asian-American male icon. |
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But there is an obsession, bordering on pathology, with keeping wages as low as humanly possible. |
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Such obsession with accuracy makes what berg does with creative license for the rest of the story so self-contradictory. |
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He couldn't let it become a repeat of his two year obsession with James. |
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The old-age embracers don't see it as an obsession, of course. |
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Cricket legend Rahul Dravid expressed dismay with India's fascination with cricket and feels that an obsession towards any sport is demoralizing. |
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Her concern about cleanliness approaches the level of obsession. |
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It would rid us of our obsession with tartanry and Balmorality, and replace the kailyard fantasies with a much deeper cultural grounding. |
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One clopper recently gained quite a bit of notoriety on the Internet by revealing just how far his obsession with the show had gone. |
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These victims of a mental disproportionableness are as myriad and varied as their obsession is monotonous and single. |
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As such, the Growlery again frustrates what Doublass sees as a peculiarly American obsession with pigeonholing things in terms of race. |
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The Renaissance obsession with classical purity halted its further evolution and saw Latin revert to its classical form. |
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Not the obsession with the isms and the ists of Balls, Miliband, Cooper and Alexander and their acolytes. |
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Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike. |
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Harding believes Eve's narcissism and obsession with herself constitutes idolatry. |
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Scottie's obsession leads to tragedy, and this time Hitchcock does not opt for a happy ending. |
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The Roman obsession with documents and public inscriptions indicates the high value placed on the written word. |
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We write and talk and empower each other, but the obsession with newness and youth does not seem to change. |
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An obsession with designer handbags, at ever-spiralling prices, became a phenomenon of the mid-noughties, driven principally by Louis Vuitton. |
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Divested of egotistic obsession, an ordinary human being could achieve the panoptic vision of a sage. |
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The only explanation for it, on the jury's verdict, was anger, hatred and obsession. |
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Wrestling is Senegal's most popular sport and has become a national obsession. |
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In 1787 he became a trustee of the Ayrshire Turnpike in the Scottish Lowlands and during the next seven years this hobby became an obsession. |
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After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket. |
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But what makes Fat Lace truly British is its trainspotterish obsession with hip-hop minutiae. |
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In addition to the absent encounter between fathers, an obsession with narcissistic wholeness also dominates accounts by adoptive fathers. |
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The text explores the success of YBA and the obsession of young British artists with commerce, mass media, and the cult of personality. |
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She examines Keatsian echos in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and its obsession with European fashions. |
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An obsession with college preparation permeated all of our coursework. |
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Today, we seem to have gone past the obsession with Oxford English, BBC English and Received Pronunciation. |
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Brits revealed workaholic Borthwick's famed line-out obsession even extended to a Saracens bonding trip in Swiss ski resort Verbier. |
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Tony developed an obsession with logs and was named The Logman by Rhona Cameron. |
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The screenplay, based on the Arthur Schnitzler novel Traumnovelle, explores the themes of sexual jealousy and obsession. |
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