“His daughters said that while Mr. Salay was softspoken, he had a strange obsession with loud colors.”

“His obsession with clocks spurred him to buy a job lot of returned timepieces from Ikea, which he has transformed into an art installation.”

“Creating a show specifically for teenagers, Irvine and Mcleary decided to capitalise on the adolescent obsession with the gothic.”

“Le Corbusier was an obsessive of the filing cabinet, to the point that his own filing system is an exhibit in the museum dedicated to him.”

“Sister Rose is an obsessive who derives pleasure from absurd over-organization.”

“Her two-hour sunrise yoga sessions and macrobiotic diet have been held up as instances of fussy obsessiveness.”

“That obsessiveness is what is required in the modern, successful, consistently victorious athlete.”

“It's often these inconsequential things that appeal to me, and I'm aware that my subconscious obsessiveness underpins this somehow.”

“If your friend is an absolute obsessor over Twilight, it may be impossible to let them down gently.”

“Award-winning entrepreneur, podcaster, coffee obsessor.”

“I drew this for that metal-faced Spiderman obsessor.”

“I am not speaking of the ego-dystonic obsessionalism that one finds in obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the ego-syntonic obsessional traits of the bureaucrat.”

“Like Cronenberg, she's effectively collapsed body and mind obsessions into one.”

“It is something less than our finest hour, but highly revelatory of our national obsessions.”

“His interest in national themes and obsessions has also brought his work wide public popularity.”

“Of most interest to Drake obsessives is Tow the Line, a previously unheard song discovered lurking at the end of an old master tape.”

“It glows a freakish, supernatural, luminous blue, for reasons none of the ice obsessives can explain to me.”

“The stores are those in your mall that supply stuff to body-building obsessives.”

“It's no surprise the media latched onto that statement, as it corresponds with the charge that anyone who opposes these issues are single-issue obsessors.”