He has an obsession with cleanliness.
For such a thought, like prayer, is easily contaminated by greed, obsessions, fears and self-destructive impulses.
This has led to a preoccupation with transcription conventions for recording conversation that, in many people's view, has become an obsession.
This absence of love, she argues, stems from an overwhelming obsession with the self, and from an excessive preoccupation with consumerism and material acquisition.
The positivist's obsession with establishing the facts as true or false is matched here by an intolerance of moral ambiguity.
