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obsessed

(= haunted, preoccupied, taken up) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle was absolutely obsessed with the girl got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children he was taken up in worry for the old woman (= possessed) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion by love possessed

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Simple sentences

The man was obsessed with fear that the secret might be disclosed.
Tom was obsessed by the belief that, one by one, everyone around him was being abducted and replaced by aliens.
My wife is obsessed with cleaning.
He's obsessed with cleanliness.
My wife is obsessed with cleanliness.
She's obsessed with books.
Mary is obsessed with animals, and especially squirrels.
Tom is obsessed with cleanliness.
My friend is obsessed with this.
Mary is obsessed with fashion.
Tom is obsessed with power and money.
Why are you so obsessed with cars?
Carl, you're obsessed with money.
After seeing her provocative body, he became obsessed with her.
One thing you should know about me is that I'm obsessed with punctuality.
Tom is utterly obsessed with food. No wonder Mary dumped him!
Mary is obsessed about her appearance.
I am obsessed with learning Hebrew.
Tom is obsessed with learning French.

Movie subtitles

Ghosts are obsessed with me.
You know I'm obsessed with that movie!
Why are you so obsessed with pranking the Murphys?
The Marquis becomes obsessed with finding proof.
Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea. that he must devour living things. in order to sustain his own life.
Dr. Seward's patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed is obsessed with the idea that he must eat other living creatures in order to sustain his own life.
His attempted action must therefore be attributed. to a diseased mind, afflicted with hallucinations of grandeur. and obsessed with an insane desire to become a public benefactor.
I'm not so obsessed with money as you seem to be.
I saw my father become obsessed by his power.
Your were still obsessed by your crash.
You still obsessed with that Colt?
Do not waste your tears on a wretch who doesn't love you. He is obsessed with the idea of becoming my son-in-law.
He's obsessed with trucks, so whoever it was can relax.
Not even Carl Magnus, that's why he's obsessed by her.
He is obsessed by evil desire and today it befalls him. I won't hear anything.
You see, he is obsessed, the demon speaks through him!
Dr. Seward, your patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.
His attempted action must therefore be attributed to a diseased mind, afflicted with hallucinations of grandeur and obsessed with an insane desire to become a public benefactor.
So obsessed, that he could commit murder.
Yet one thing obsessed me.
I am obsessed with how lovely the folk singing is.
He is obsessed with the idea of becoming my son-in-law.
Perhaps I have become, as you put it, obsessed by our name and our past, and the absence of our future, and by our paintings.
You're so obsessed with the rules when it comes to the smaller pupils.
Joshy, I needed that sage to cleanse the house of evil spirits. Ghosts are obsessed with me.
The poor girl was obsessed with the idea. that I could at will cause the ball. to land in the 2nd dozen.
When I couldn't buy it, I became obsessed with owning it.
That's why you're so obsessed with all this.
She's obsessed.
A man obsessed only with testing the limits of his skill.
She's obsessed!
You're really obsessed!
That's when I realized how frustrated he was. so frustrated, that he was becoming more and more obsessed.
Anyone could become obsessed with the past with a background like that.
He was obsessed with knives and bayonets.
Emil Hahn, the decayed, corrupt bigot, obsessed by the evil within himself.
Georges is an emotional man obsessed with relationships.

News and current affairs

George W. Bush is obsessed with the war on terrorism, especially with the military response to terrorism.
At the Cold War's end, Japan remained obsessed with Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union.
Obsessed with the war on terror as well as an ideology of privatizing the functions of government, the administration systematically sapped FEMA's long-term ability to prevent disaster or at least cushion the blows when prevention is not possible.
Since then, we have learnt all too unambiguously that Saddam is obsessed with procuring weapons of mass destruction - chemical and biological warheads as well as atomic bombs and the missiles to deliver them.
Yet, while the Chinese clearly understand these contingencies and are preparing themselves to deal with them diplomatically and militarily, the Kremlin remains myopically obsessed with the phantom threat of America.
Mindful of the bitter memory of famine (and trade embargoes), China's government remains obsessed with ensuring self-sufficiency in food.
Increasingly obsessed at the prospect of its own citizens and practices coming under international scrutiny, America has over the past few years contributed to the general erosion of the UN human rights monitoring system.
That is no surprise, as European central bankers are the most conventional in their thinking and have been the most obsessed with inflation.
He was obsessed by the ideal of unity.
Instead of slackening domestic spying in order to prepare the Chinese people for the ever increasing personal responsibility that a modern economy demands, however, Jiang remains obsessed only with maintaining Communist and personal power.
Governments obsessed with national competitiveness are likely to pursue damaging economic policies.
But it is dangerous to become obsessed with the past.
In a money-obsessed society, the only way to restrain this proclivity is by externally imposed sanctions.
Instead, more than ever before they are obsessed by nightmares, foremost among them, the prospect of a nuclear Iran.
BRUSSELS - Europe seems to be obsessed with austerity.
Unlike the British and the Americans, the French are much less obsessed with sex than they are with financial scandal.
This is a deeply unfavorable situation, which explains why the ECB, once obsessed with the risk that governments would coalesce to assail its independence, has turned into the staunchest advocate of fiscal-policy coordination.
Such rhetoric makes wars easier to justify, easier to wage, and easier to support, especially for elected leaders who must respond directly to swings in public opinion. Such language works equally well for any society in today's media-obsessed age.
Today, the world is obsessed with the slowdown in China and the woes of its stock market.
The European Central Bank and the Bank of England have been the worst offenders. That is no surprise, as European central bankers are the most conventional in their thinking and have been the most obsessed with inflation.
They perceive Americans and Europeans as being obsessed with money and material ambition, and they seem ready to accept some stagnation as the price of remaining truly Japanese.
The financial markets are obsessed with anticipating whether rates will rise in March or June.
Everyone nowadays seems obsessed about the question as to whether or not Islam can be reconciled with modernization.
With the world's most successful democracies obsessed with recent failures, international politics has drifted toward more dangerous potential outcomes.
Nonetheless, we know very little of that country, because all vital information is restricted to a small group of leaders obsessed with secrecy.

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