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Petite & Sweet staff set about creating a higher - end version of the Twinkie, incorporating their recent obsession with salted caramel, a rising trend in dessert offerings, as well as their penchant for ganache, into two Twinkie prototypes.

Poloz said little about Harper's obsession with a balanced budget, which in retrospect speaks volumes.

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

Anguin talks about an obsession Anderson had with «an attractive Asian - American in the finance department» that led to a request that Anderson work from home for months.

In essence, you need to have a mental «obsession» with capital preservation, and drop your obsession about rewards and profits.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

The notion of writing The Curse of Cain, the author tells us, sprang in part from her own «obsessions about God» and in part from a student who punctured a class on the Exodus by asking, «What about the Canaanites?»

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

If one is traveling in France and is, as he was, knowledgeable about the Romanesque riches so densely scattered throughout the provinces, such an obsession entails a lot of stopping.

«Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion,» reads the abstract for this paper.

Um, there are plenty of obsessions about race in the Bible even if it was more centered on ethnicity or location of birth than skin color.

All her grandchildren get a wild sparkle in their eye when talking about grandma's pie — it is a family - wide obsession.

This dressing goes well with just about anything, but pairs particularly well with dark greens and raw shaved cauliflower (my newest obsession in salads — I love the texture of raw shaved cauliflower!).

In fact they have probably been my obsession for about 5 years now.

Obviously I should see a doctor about this obsession, or be put in a straight jacket, but let's put all those issues aside for a second to talk about this salad.

I'm talking about the standing - in - front - of the - fridge - eating - mustard - out - of - the - jar kind of obsession.

I've talked about my brunch obsession before and I will definitely talk about it in the future.

Trust me, there are many times I would have much rather talked to you about my recent salmon obsession (more on that soon), or shared with you my secret for making a huge batch of cookies faster than you ever thought possible, but alas, there are only so many hours in a day.

You might have realised my obsession after reading this post about my time in San Fran recently.

Anyone who happens upon my website already know about my coconut oil obsession, with most of my recipes using coconut oil in one way or another.

Hi Deb, As I'm in the midst of obsession with peaches in all forms and my birthday is right around the corner, I was wondering if you ever had positive feedback about trying this as a layer cake or if you have tried it yourself?

Sometimes I get small obsessions about that kind of thing, and it would certainly be easier to do it in a Paris winter than in a Santa Monica summer.

If you starting buying dollhouses, then I am really going to worry about your miniature obsession:) I don't even think that I need to taste these to nod my head in agreement that these * are * the best vegan sugar cookies that I have ever tasted!

As you may have guessed from my ravings about the Pumpkin - Chai Latte I posted on Facebook, this year, chai has joined the ranks of pumpkin in my Fall obsessions category, and, especially the two combined!

Anyone who happens upon my website already know about my coconut oil obsession, with most of my recipes using coconut oil in one way or -LSB-...]

Our obsession is amazing tasting food, but we're just as passionate about making sure our guests have an incredible experience the moment they walk through our doors or step in line at our food trucks.

Turow spends 164 pages interviewing both Millennials and big thinkers in the food world — such as Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, and Marion Nestle — about the current food obsession and what it means for our future.

I recreated this keto taco pie as something that would help me reminisce about my childhood love of casseroles and my ongoing obsession with tacos, usually in lettuce or Siete chips (order here).

I posted on my personal Facebook page a while back about my writer's block and also about my obsession with sesame sticks, the super crunchy, savory little sticks sold in produce departments and served on salad bars.

Assistant pastor Tim Mascara talks about our collective obsession with football in a way that makes Burrell's Panthers - idolatry zinger sound like an ad campaign for the NFL.

Speaking about of defenders and Wenger's obsession with players out of position, during that Champions League quarter - final at the Kop Wenger put Toure (centre - half) into the right fullback position that he has never played in before.

Fever Pitch is about the quotidian and what one man can learn about himself by participating in the national obsession; The Soccer Diaries starts with a child in search of something thoroughly other, a citizen cheating on his own country's sporting culture.

I've been writing about that obsession and, ever so occasionally, the team since 2004 in a variety of places, but have found a natural home here.

«People have spoken about the Spurs game since the home leg — it's going to be an extraordinary game in a marvellous stadium and we get to show ourselves off to the world, but it shouldn't be an obsession because we're hitting all our targets at the moment.»

But like most problems in life, once I finally began to admit my stroller obsession, I began to understand more of what it was about.

We went with the lazy option and just dragged a piece of furniture (a chair, in our case) in front of the stairs for about three weeks until the obsession subsided and he'd mastered coming back down the stairs.

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My child has cried cumulatively less about sleep than he has about his obsession over sitting in the front seat of the car and my refusal to let him.

Their refusal became an obsession for the press, as core ideas about identity began to play out in a much more emotive way than they had before the attack.

I use the phrase «industrial strategy» deliberately since we have an underlying problem of short term - ism: a «boom and bust» mentality in financial markets, an obsession with short term results, which has been allowed to swamp strategic, long term thinking about how Britain will make its living.

«When we first did it, the audience's obsession was much more about the coalition government in 2010 and how that was working out, and now it's much more about what's happening in the Labour party.»

In 2001, The Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee writing about Gordon Brown's obsession with the public private partnership (PPP) for London Underground, said: «By personally driving through the public - private partnership against expert advice, and against the will of most MPs and voters, this has now become the Gordon Brown Memorial tube: every late train, failed signal and heat - fainting passenger is his fault as from last week.»

This time we talked about several things that have been recent obsessions on Epolitics.com, including the Kochs» new data / politics empire, the digital role of other outside groups in the upcoming campaigns, the fierce competition for digital staff, Dave Leichtman's proposed Democratic 50 - state digital organizing strategy and much more.

The president is on the verge of being accused of possible crimes where they're talking about impeachment, the stock market is collapsing today, but yet in Albany there seems to be an obsession with something that has been, in fact, a legislative practice for decades.

«The Chief Inspector is right to send a clear warning about the Government's obsession with further structural changes as being the way to raise standards for pupils; what matters is creating the conditions in which teachers can focus on teaching and learning, without unnecessary and wasteful distractions.