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Sentence count:200+6Posted:2017-02-23Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: compulsionfixationSimilar words: sessionobsessedcessionrecessionsecessionoppressiondigressionconcessionMeaning: [əb'seʃn]  n. 1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will 2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone. 
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91. He was sometimes irritated by what he saw as Blanche's deductive ramblings, her obsession with the power of reason.
92. Demonstrating my attractiveness to a young intelligent woman in competition with young attractive males had become almost an obsession of mine.
93. It was Estella that started off his obsession with wanting more.
94. I have an obsession at the moment for pyjamas, duvets and dressing gowns.
95. His real obsession was ever with the sensational effects of the titillating text.
96. It was not an obsession then, only a gnawing doubt.
97. To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.
98. I shall go to antenatal classes where I shall nourish my obsession for natural childbirth. 3.
99. I eventually began to suspect that their devotion to organizing things comes perilously close to an obsession.
100. She had suffered during long bouts of Hopper's depression, rages and his obsession with James Dean.
101. Her obsession with Farley was so powerful that nothing else mattered.
102. It is vital to his sense of responsible obsession that everything in his room warrants careful study.
103. A significant proportion of the population is sensitive to milk; our obsession with this unnatural substance causes widespread ill-health.
104. In this book I use it to denote an uncritical obsession with consumption.
105. Not out of obsession with the abnormal; just for the pleasure.
106. Police oppression of the freedom fighters brought my protest against authority almost to the point of obsession.
107. But insiders say he is keen to make it a national obsession.
108. Each group would be able to campaign for its particular obsession in public.
109. The first concerns her obsession with purity and her ambivalent attitude towards it.
110. But she's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan, particularly since his wife's death.
111. They would have said that their obsession was with divine grace.
112. Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper, nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs.
113. Suggestions of inferiority have long rankled in a city where image has been an obsession for more than a century.
114. In his obsession to find out if his suspicions were true, he rifled through her belongings at her apartment.
115. Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.sentencedict.com/obsession.html
116. His fatal obsession with Aurelia gives a remarkable impression of the quality of this figure.
117. Every teenage fantasy, frustration and obsession is here as the naive youngsters exchange their drab existences for an alcohol-induced escapism.
118. This is the really menacing thing because in their obsession with proving themselves, they are pulling us all towards destruction.
119. This untutored mathematician has an obsession with numbers.
120. Sadat seemed free of the obsession with detail.
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