Sentences with phrase «near obsession with»

The history of Courier, Surface Mini, recent patents and Microsoft's near obsession with Moleskine a device like Andromeda seems inevitable.

(trick question — it wouldn't) I love how «industry» funding can be dismissed as bias but Boykoff's wiki page shows a near obsession with «oppression» and left - wing causes.

Then there's the game's near obsession with breaking the fourth wall, constantly referencing various other adventure games to the point where it almost becomes annoying.

The character of Francis is intentionally annoying; he's quite overbearing and has a near obsession with being in control and being organised.

It was a near obsession with them.

Not exact matches

This near - obsession with this notion of childhood, the presentation of a child as being supremely acceptable before God, is a strain that runs through the New Testament.

Then try a debilitating obsession with books, says Amanda Hooton: it's nowhere near as mind - improving as it sounds.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

The Gemini mission also clearly illustrated something prison administrators and ship captains have known for a long time: People confined to small spaces for extended periods focus with near - obsession on the quality, quantity and variety of food.

On a more personal note, Joseph has had a near - obsession with video games for as long as he can remember, and is probably playing a game at this very moment.

I started working there the summer before I began high school and I already had the «designer handbag» bug... so naturally I couldn't go to my first day of freshman year without a new bag... and while all of the girls on Long Island were having their obsession with Coach, Prada and Kate Spade bags... I decided to fall for Dior... which led me to buying this beauty.I already shared my shoe details at the beginning of the post but here is the link to check out all of their styles and find where you can snag them at a store near you: Coolway Shoes!

Since Hervé Léger is just a teensy bit out of my every day officewear price range, I've developed a full - blown obsession with The Kewl Shop and their near identical renditions of the classic, multi-thousand-dollar bandage dresses.»

Recently discovered and developed somewhat of an obsession with poet Edna St. Vincent Millay who lived near my hometown.

He holds little back in ripping our obsession with celebrity, our near - clinical anxiety towards all things Politically Correct, and the villainous ways of entitled corporate types (played here by Joel McHale).

Their aberrant behavior, it appears, is fueled by a near - lethal cocktail of hyper - materialism, rampant narcissism, obsession with celebrity (real and fake), hollow spirituality and social media, not to mention actual booze and drugs.

Huston's obsession with keeping the film under budget resulted in a near - fetishistic fastidiousness that produced an eye for detail rarely rivalled since.

And relative newcomer Eric Ruffin is quietly transfixing in «The Transfiguration,» portraying a withdrawn inner - city teen whose obsession with vampire lore draws him nearer to a neighbor girl and further away from reality.

Yet within about 40 pages of this book his bravado and obsession with near - death experiences became annoying and tedious.

On a more personal note, Joseph has had a near - obsession with video games for as long as he can remember, and is probably playing a game at this very moment.

My near manic obsession with loot continuously annoys the local police who are starting to get a bit fed up of being called out to deal with me stealing all the shiny objects I can find in my local town, a problem that came to a head when I came to the amazing realisation that banks contain vast amounts of shiny things called coins.

In between is a group of works, including one of the Arts Council Collections» new commissions, all relating to the artist's near - obsession with Felix the Cat as a virtual avatar.

One point I haven't seen addressed yet, though, is the book's near - obsession with the topic of state sovereign immunity, especially in its summary of the Rehnquist Court and the Epilogue.

Despite our near pathological obsession with capitalizing on anything that could turn a profit, the lack of entertainment focused on the fertile ground that Assassin's Creed 3 makes its home is bizarre.