Example sentences for: obsession

How can you use “obsession” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With his susceptibility to ridicule and parody, his air of furtive portentousness, his apocalyptic Manichaean vision of purity overtaken by disease, his dazzling displays of the uncanny intuitive skills that sometimes accompany obsession, he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others.

  • To publish one article on this tawdry subject may be regarded as a slip-up; to publish two looks like an obsession.

  • It's a pity that eating disorders have been pasted over with banal notions such as "body image" and "self-esteem," and unappetizing medical terms such as "morbidly obese," because obsession with food is by no means a dull subject.

  • Yes, abortion is anathema to John Paul II, who is bemused by suggestions that he has an "obsession" with the subject, but he condemns abortion because he sees it as not only anti-life but also anti-woman.

  • By some reports she shot herself; others, perhaps influenced by the obsession of Bonnard's late paintings, say she drowned herself in her bathtub.


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