Sentences with phrase «own lifelong obsession»

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

The whole idea is flush with theatrical potential (the roles are even double - cast, à la The Wizard Of Oz), which is apt, given Dickens» own comments on his creative process (he claimed his characters spoke to him) and the lifelong obsession with the stage that stemmed from his early days as a failed actor.

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.

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.»

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.

Jonathon Wood looks at the popular 1.5 litre line / Cars In My Life — RB (Dick) James explains how a boyhood love of cars became a lifelong obsession / Orient Express — Michael Worthington - Williams tells the incredible tale of one of the barn finds of the century / Country Garage — Alan Marsh's childhood recollections of early motoring days in Somerset / Geoffrey Taylor & The Alta — Anthony Pritchard charts the story of the forgotten car that played a major role in Britain's rise in Grand Prix motor racing / Pure Magic — David Tarallo recalls a remarkable Mille Miglia / Low Life — Guy Griffiths takes an unusual look at motor sport / French Fancy — The Editor takes to the road in a delightful little Peugeot 202 — believed to be the only one on the road in Britain.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Maybe it's the lifelong obsession with fashion magazines.

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 depiction of the landscape in art proved a lifelong obsession for John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).

Barbara Haskell, Marsden Hartley (New York, 1980), 43, discusses at length (and for the first time) Hartley's homosexuality, his lifelong obsession with masculine beauty, and his love for Freyburg, which, she notes, may or may not have been consummated.

[7][7] Barbara Haskell, Marsden Hartley (New York, 1980), 43, discusses at length (and for the first time) Hartley's homosexuality, his lifelong obsession with masculine beauty, and his love for Freyburg, which, she notes, may or may not have been consummated.

Schwitters» lifelong obsession with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk or «total work of art» hovers in the background, but foremost is a belief that art really matters morally and politically.

Starting just months after the launch of Sputnik on my 8th birthday, I suspect it might have contributed to my lifelong obsession with Science.

We have a lifelong obsession with looking for and understanding this complex experience.

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My lifelong affair with pizza has turned into an obsession, one that has only increased since going vegan.

Looking forward to «what's next» has been the best part of my lifelong reading obsession!!

After the computer came a Sega Genesis, and it was with that, coupled with my obsession with Sonic the Hedgehog that my lifelong (so far) passion for gaming would truly be born.

These new works reflect her lifelong preoccupation with the infinite and sublime, as well as the twin themes of cosmic infinity and personal obsession, as found in pattern and repetition.

I'm a forty - something Aussie working mum with a lifelong passion / obsession for nailpolish, makeup and all things feminine.