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obsession

[uhb-sesh-uhn] / əbˈsɛʃ ən /


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Training her sights on a ruddy Sean Penn, Glaser remarked on Hollywood’s obsession with looking younger.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was interested in the relationship between fathers and sons, an obsession of Le Carré’s, and in how Jonathan and Roper would be entangled all these years later.

From Los Angeles Times

“Their obsession with winning was on another level.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It covers the tyranny of gender roles and the comfort of escaping into obsession, and Ms. Shaw is very good at inhabiting such perspectives, hinting at broader issues but favoring subtlety and suggestion.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the looks obsession isn’t merely a ruse for exports.

From The Wall Street Journal