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
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
"When I met him, I could see a real author's style in him and I've always sensed in him an obsession with becoming a writer and a thirst for reading," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Ever the humanist, fascinated by ordinary people taking on otherwise herculean tasks to the point of obsession, Herzog resolved decades ago to make a film inspired by the sisters.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
“We’re not the ones with an obsession, Harry! We’re the ones trying to do what Dumbledore wanted us to do!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
It’s been a long journey of taking note of current events, including where the world is going, as well as people’s obsessions and fears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Her own relationship to the subject provides a kind of narrative service road to Mr. Lowe’s four-lane highway of ultramarathoners and their obsessions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
If it was unlikely for a scruffy little girl to turn up in his cell knowing the very man who figured in his obsessions, the Regius Professor didn’t notice.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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