obsession
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It’s another song about a fractured relationship in which obsession reaches a boiling point, as if we’re seeing the couple from “Happy for You” in a different but equally disturbing phase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Once he had his foot in the door as an intern, success became an obsession, with bonuses becoming "a way of gauging how wonderfully successful a human being I was".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
It’s about his obsession with “Minecraft,” the immensely popular video sandbox game that takes place in a world of 3D cubes representing raw materials such as wood, ores, stone and dirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
And yet, Sephora and other cosmetic retailers love that their obsession with anti-aging begins in their teens and 20s.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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There are those about unusual obsessions, like the Ford executive who kept score of colleagues’ verbal flubs, and odd jobs, like the hairy Utah men benefiting from a booming market for Jesus models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
This immersive installation, like the rest of the Lucas—built not on aesthetics but on nostalgia and spectacle—confuses a collector’s obsessions with genuine vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
In “The Dreamy Side,” Molina traces the roots of these cross-cultural musical obsessions to the early R&B scene in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
"I believe you've had an opportunity to witness just how wild Sophia can be. I saw her handiwork with one of the Pompadour twins. And I take it she's shown you her portraits? Her obsessions."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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