Word: obsessionals
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The questions are, of course, rhetorical. I suspect that your writers have a carry-over Stover-at-Yale obsession from childhood, or that they are congenitally unhappy. For a reporter, by all journalistic canons with which I am acquainted, would shrink from taking one aspect of the life of a...
All this has been done in the interests of security. But its effect has been just the opposite, in Gellhorn's opinion. The obsession for security and loyalty has discouraged many able people from researching for the government, be argues. Some of the men who were actually discharged later turned...
An Eye to God. Author Jefferson complains that many British and U.S. writers of hymns for children "have had what one can only term 'the lamb obsession.' 'Lambs' appear over and over again, while 'little lambkin' is not unknown ... It is extremely doubtful whether...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she...
In the lobby afterwards, owlish Alexander Volinine, Pavlova's partner for 13 years, muttered: "Verry myzterious." A pallid Parisian hostess shuddered: "It's like looking into the souls of horrid people -the ones one walks away from." Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension...