Sentences with phrase «lifelong obsession»

He spent time, you know, some years in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Indonesia where he was starved, and that began a kind of lifelong obsession with food, nutrition, survival and so on.

Al lifelong obsession leads to the mysterious hedecatope — a seemingly impossible geometric form that, in its own small way, links together the whole universe.

John's incredible dedication to his clients was born from his own lifelong obsession with... READ MORE

Running 141 minutes, it tells the true story of Percy Fawcett, an English explorer whose lifelong obsession with finding a legendary Amazonian city ended only with his mysterious disappearance in the Brazilian jungle in 1925.

HBO said he «opens up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV «wunderkind,» his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he's cultivated through the years.»

I think it helps me forget this lifelong obsession I've had with not eating beets made savory.

I've had a lifelong obsession with this magical holiday concoction.

A lifelong obsession with politics, an academic background in history and sociology, and a professional background in technical project management and computing led him to help form GNYCFC's Technical Communication team.

I fell into a lifelong obsession with astronomy, eventually becoming the editor of Discover, and waited for more pictures of stars.

He was 8 years old when his father made butterfly nets for him and his brother John, unsuspectingly launching a lifelong obsession for both.

His hobby was to become a lifelong obsession, and he went on to take thousands of photos.

Collecting vintage Adolfo is a lifelong obsession of mine and this piece is my favorite of any of the Adolfo I've managed to get my hands on.

Collecting vintage Adolfo is a lifelong obsession of mine and this piece is my favorite of any of the Adolfo I've managed to...

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.

Raised in a strict Calvinist household, Paul Schrader didn't see his first film until he was 17 years old, a late and inauspicious start (the movie in question was The Absent - Minded Professor) to what would become a lifelong obsession.

The climbers» lifelong obsession becomes a monumental struggle for survival.

Fever Pitch, the latest feature from shock - comedy siblings Peter and Bobby Farrelly, is based on Hornby's 1992 debut book, a diaristic nonfiction account of his lifelong obsession with English soccer.

At the age of 15, he landed his first job working as an usher at the long - defunct Plitt Gables Theater, where he saw E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial more than 20 times and a lifelong obsession with movies was born.

This is a story that brings us any number of dark places — CIA conspiracy theories, the MK - Ultra LSD trials, the Korean War, biological warfare — but what resonates about it most of all, over 240 minutes of Morris-esque archive fever and extended interviews, is Eric Olson's lifelong obsession with the circumstances of his father's death.

Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

Stacked high are mounds of automotive books, memorabilia, posters, and models, the mad physical overflow of a giddy mind with a lifelong obsession.

The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy — the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century — remains unfinished.

At night she continues her father's lifelong obsession - collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the Washington Territory.

Consider this a professional skill and a lifelong obsession.

He was genuinely interested in computers, not for their own sake but for their service to a lifelong obsession: the inner workings of the stock market.

Playing games as a child became a lifelong obsession for Karan that somehow he's managed to sustain to his adulthood.

If there's one thing I've learned from my lifelong obsession with Nintendo games, it's that Nintendo is a company that does things how and when it wants to.

Winning the Swedish Game Awards was the culmination of a lifelong obsession with video games.

This combined with my love for any of Jim Henson's creations, Star Wars and playing Nintendo games has given me a lifelong obsession with the magical worlds we can create with just our imagination.

Though Gorogoa might seem more like an arbitrary collection of images at first, over time, it sketches out a hazy story of one boy's lifelong obsession with five mystical fruits.

Rich Carlson is a musician, composer, and arranger originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota who has a lifelong obsession with video games.

It does not take much to see a lifelong obsession with opposites — God and Satin, Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the Prophecies of Europe and America, Milton's Allegro and Il Penseroso.

For guest curator Michael Cepress, this exhibition is a reflection of his lifelong obsession with 1970s counterculture fashion.

This lifelong obsession soon becomes full - blown.

Upon exploring Burgoyne Diller's oeuvre, it is apparent that the third dimension was a lifelong obsession which played a significant role in his creative process.

Love letters to James Joyce «Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell had a lifelong obsession with Irish novelist James Joyce.

Maybe it's the lifelong obsession with fashion magazines.

Rounding out the show, two of Rama's collages from the»60s, Bricolage (1967) and Pornography II (1965), play with body fluids and body parts (eyes, teeth) and reenact the lifelong obsessions and lucid approach of one of the more interesting and unjustly neglected European artists of this century.

In Conversations, are series of new monotypes, Stephen Snoddy shares Matisse's lifelong obsession with a visual conversation between inside and outside and often uses the window motif as a formal device to construct work.

The rabbis, whom he painted from imagination, began appearing in Bloom's paintings in the 1930s and remained his lifelong obsession.

The experimentation blossomed into a lifelong obsession that would culminate in his best - known series of paintings, Homage to the Square, in which he painted several differently - colored squares within larger squares in order to illustrate his theory that alterations in environment, shape and light would produce changes in color.

Her lifelong obsession with extreme weather and geology began with childhood winters in Minnesota and visits to National Parks.

The multitalented Argentinian - born artist, who grew up in North London, has a lifelong obsession with architecture.