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    1. Obsess in “sensory-overload


    2. The question of the Source of happiness is a mystery, and we obsess about mysteries


    3. Conversely, the more we obsess about ourselves, the more miserable we become


    4. Here in the West, we tend to obsess about the sexual side of Tantric Buddhism, but those practices are only one part


    5. Clinton's detractors obsess over what a powerful man did below the waist, in a manner showing they are far more obsessed with sex than any philanderer


    6. She doesn’t obsess about rejection


    7. With an abundance view, we see the plenty that surrounds us, rather than to obsess on what we don't have


    8. in expectation born of memory — and they will cease to obsess


    9. We ruminate and obsess about it


    10. my brain for me to obsess over, the whole song is simply there

    11. She began to obsess about finding a safe place to


    12. You can't give way to self-pity when you have a child depending on you… When Franklin left I didn't obsess much because I needed to worry about her


    13. Having said all that, it's also important that you don't obsess over your blurb


    14. I had to understand that the imbalance caused me to obsess about


    15. would obsess over even looking at the number 666


    16. I would obsess about this number and my faith


    17. To obsess our mind and body with, before


    18. As people grew more inquisitive they contemplated the end of life; even coming to obsess over their own certain deaths


    19. Sometimes I hear about people already in relationships, possibly even married, who cannot understand how it can be that they fall madly ‘in love’ and obsess about someone they hardly know


    20. can’t obsess over those details,” Garcia said

    21. The moment she left, he would obsess even more


    22. And try not to obsess about the lives you have taken


    23. was over, I chose instead to obsess myself with


    24. I kept trying over and over to just eat what I wanted, stop when I was full and not obsess over what I had eaten


    25. What does the legal system obsess over? Death, killing


    26. That is also why we obsess and revere old, dead artefacts that were once made, created, and used by humans… because the aura-energy emanating from these artefacts have been permanently changed with the overlaid aura-energy of their most recent past into a personal history of its creators-makers-users… and we sense that lost history of these forgotten people and try to resurrect their memory


    27. Then instead of reinforcing their negative, weak greed and selfishness: the Shakers should have stripped her house of every piece of furniture, and left her to rot in her empty house: friendless, alone, without any human companionship… and also without any furniture to obsess over


    28. They did not obsess over death as much


    29. and not obsess about meals or snacks or tea or whatever


    30. ” If this is so it is no wonder that we obsess over our positions on the failure-success continuum

    31. But, like, obsess over her?”


    32. Maybe she could feign a migraine and leave early… but what was the point? Barney would still expect her to complete the work, and even at home, she knew she’d continue to obsess over the day’s events


    33. One more thing about our relationship to obsess over


    34. For example, when I was planning to go see my family at the Cape, we focused on strategies that would help me not to obsess on feeling shame for what I had done, or fall into the trap of imagining all the things my father meant or felt when he didn’t directly address things or made little passing remarks


    35. Some people obsess over these risks, but other times these risks are completely ignored


    36. Most failing traders, to their detriment, overly obsess about their trading weaknesses


    37. But being a serious trader does not require us to obsess over every price tick


    38. They continue to look at each quarterly report, but they do not obsess about dayto-day price swings or two-cents-per-share earnings disappointments or positive surprises


    39. But so many people find this challenging as they obsess about the past on some wrong that was done to them or some mistake they made


    40. I SHUT MYSELF AWAY to think, to quietly obsess about Thomas Pierce and Mr

    41. More time to think, or obsess, which he usually enjoyed


    42. You do not want to obsess about problems and challenges


    43. "She knows but she doesn't know for sure, and it will eat at her and it will obsess her, and on account of her bond with Mona, she and Michael will never let it go


    44. (We’ve already talked in Chapter 7 about how investors tend to obsess on short-term risks and rewards, while ignoring the more important longer-term picture


    1. He used to be obsessed with appearances


    2. The three of us have a good time together, yet Tandoulou sets me thinking sometimes: On one hand she is intelligent and knowledgeable about many subjects; on the other hand she is rather bossy and obsessed with religion; she is also a scrooge, counting every cent she is to pay


    3. In fact, I became so obsessed that whenever I appeared for Classics studies, the other boys would chant, 'Here he comes - The Idiot and the Oddity', punning Homer's title


    4. They made many other things, but Boras was obsessed with arms


    5. Ever since then the head chef insisted on ordering fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables for banquets and special occasions through old Ted’s niece, and all the while the unsuspecting Ted had been convinced that his niece was strangely obsessed by fresh fruit and vegetables


    6. The word from the men of his Hold that pass thru here occasionally paints a picture of a man obsessed with his own self-importance


    7. that his niece was strangely obsessed by fresh fruit and vegetables


    8. A person obsessed with the vindication of insanely held ideas or prejudices will often select the convenient surrogate for venting their tensions of the built up frustration


    9. For another reason, they were obsessed with the honor and reputation of the Kassikan


    10. Conscientious but not obsessed

    11. because he’s obsessed with getting his work done


    12. Her most serious interest was probably her garden, but she wasn’t obsessed with that either


    13. Always obsessed with the way you look and what


    14. Andrew Holmes became obsessed with Malaysia Airlines flight 370


    15. (Hey, it’s not just us humans who get obsessed about corporal aesthetics!) For that reason and when necessity called—due to there not being any jumbo-sized showers or hippo medical facility specialists available in his domain—he would frequently visit one of the local cleaning stations and call upon the Courageous Cleaners to assist him with his personal care


    16. What if it were someone who’d grown obsessed with having her? Captain Hycron? He was taller than this man and vain about the way he dressed


    17. The late wise spiritual guru, Sai Baba often advised his followers in the past, not to be obsessed in praying for a smooth journey in life


    18. Being stronger in the Power had its benefits of course, though Terese seemed almost obsessed over the risks


    19. He was becoming obsessed with the gods of war


    20. Clinton's detractors obsess over what a powerful man did below the waist, in a manner showing they are far more obsessed with sex than any philanderer

    21. He obsessed over, in his own words, being “trodden underfoot by niggers


    22. Devoted and even obsessed with foreign policy alone (though not nearly as skilled as many claim, as discussed elsewhere) Nixon largely chose to ignore domestic policy


    23. I became obsessed with understanding emotions and


    24. I would go further and say that the finger points especially at the evangelical part of the church, much of which seems to be obsessed with very worldly issues such as numbers, buildings, equipment, power, control and money


    25. There is the popular perception – which is not entirely ill-founded – that the church is obsessed with sex; and if not obsessed, then highly dysfunctional in that area


    26. Whilst I do believe that adultery is a very serious wrong because of its elements of betrayal, I would suggest that there are worse matters than the minor sexual sins with which the church often seems obsessed


    27. I also believe it is more important to think and pray about the possibility of renewal than to be obsessed with blaming and finger pointing


    28. He told about the Children of the Light who according to the Legend were to win the war against those who were obsessed by the Dark


    29. I’m not obsessed with producing strong genes


    30. I explained it to Lindsay, who had never heard of the Ten Bells pub, and of course unless you’re somewhat obsessed with Jack the Ripper, there is no reason why you would be familiar with it

    31. “They are really obsessed with being polite


    32. “I knew that they are obsessed with politeness, so I bowed deeply and the Kapa


    33. “Because you and Tom were obsessed with wrestling and always used to wrestle each other, and you still watch it! You spend hour after hour watching men running around in their underwear play fitting with each other


    34. Japanese mothers, were obsessed with making sure their children got into a respectable


    35. She was immediately obsessed with braiding Manda’s hair, but Manda wouldn’t let her


    36. Tonight Jeannine became obsessed with the nightgown’s tight fitting elastic sash that ran under her bust line


    37. “He was completely obsessed with my brother's training


    38. A story of a half man, half monster created by a scientist obsessed with bringing the dead back to life, fictionally named Dr Victor Frankenstein


    39. Birthdays were never my thing; my father was more obsessed with the idea of giving life to the dead once more


    40. Obsessed with the idea of means and end, of work

    41. “He was obsessed with you the whole time he was here, and now he is out, there is a chance he may try and contact you again


    42. I am obsessed with you, don’t you know that?” I was


    43. I didn’t want her to think I was an obsessed psycho


    44. She had been obsessed with the manner in which she found out about Rose and her Bob


    45. are so obsessed with a long life that we don't even try to define life


    46. We think only a fool would not be obsessed with it


    47. We may become obsessed with the pursuit of this knowledge, but that is not the issue


    48. The mind obsessed by the idea of causality


    49. We are obsessed with it


    50. which has the potential to be a daily routine in the reality we are obsessed with













































    1. rigid mental structure that obsesses humanity from within in a persecutory


    2. “No wonder that bald old man will become obsesses


    3. “If the mind obsesses with thought and the heart is possessed with feeling, then what is spirit?”


    4. We are the only animal that focuses upon and obsesses over death and dying


    5. Science obsesses over cancer because it does not understand it


    6. History obsesses and only speaks of how the richest and most powerful lives


    1. With nothing better to do I decided that watching that old movie William liked was better than obsessing over Toby's liaisons


    2. This obsessing about how I was going to kill my dad went on


    3. Now, while everyone else in the free world was having a weekend, he was obsessing about Monday


    4. “So, what you’re telling me, Mark Randall, is that I have spent weeks obsessing about a problem that didn’t even exist?"


    5. you walk around stewing and obsessing over the wrong that was done to


    6. young to be obsessing about my health


    7. fit and “Why did I have to waste my life obsessing about being ill?” Another


    8. Why was I such an idiot? All those years I spent obsessing over Ladia could have been spent getting to know—


    9. caught obsessing over yet another woman


    10. sending her off to die? Was this Apollo’s curse? He closed his eyes, telling himself he was going to have to stop obsessing about that

    11. should consider obsessing about the


    12. Instead of obsessing over ‘professional’ they took a


    13. constant spending on self and obsessing about it


    14. My point is this: If you give yourself enough time and expend sufficient effort while focusing on the process of exercising instead of obsessing about the desired outcome, you will achieve the results you desire


    15. He could not stop obsessing about his hair and picking up loose strands everywhere, on the bathroom and kitchen floors, out the drain and off the comb


    16. is important, as compared to obsessing with either


    17. On Monday, school can't end soon enough because I'm obsessing about Anthony and the possibility of him being a Huldu


    18. She looked at him funny, wondering if he spent his entire weekend obsessing over some project


    19. I was obsessing over a lab report and I snuck back upstairs the minute my roommate took her eye off me


    20. She was pretty but didn’t hold a flame to the woman I’d been obsessing over the last month

    21. Yes, he’d pissed me off and I’d been trying to avoid him, but it didn’t mean that I hadn’t been obsessing about him almost every single day and night this last month


    22. It is one of the most obvious behavioral trademarks of the human species; we look at things, react to things, think about things, feel about things, act on things, basically like hen-pecking chickens, narrowly; focusing and obsessing on one thing at a time without being aware of any greater context, without any interest in gaining any broader perspective


    23. The fact remains that Mass Media is responsible for psychically wounding and damaging its viewers by obsessing on violence, destruction and death


    24. Obsessing for one whole year on the O


    25. Obsessing for one whole year on the Rodney King trial


    26. But that would destroy the entire pyramidal focus and structure of idolizing any one person, or obsessing over what we fear most: death, dead things, and dying


    27. And how was it done? By turning the symbol of dominance and death: the almighty sword: into a symbol of masochistic love of suffering, and glorifying meekness and obsessing and worshiping death instead of life


    28. Obsessing over shiny objects is not a sign of human intelligence: it is the sign of insanely stupid reptilian entities permeating the awareness of living humans and programming them to act and think and live as stupidly as a reptile-bird


    29. She might or might not go ahead with the auction, but that wasn’t really the point, she’d said; they needed to stop “obsessing over the sex part


    30. That, and I’ve gone about seventy-two hours straight obsessing about the case

    31. The rest of the segment was basically Ellen Abbott, professional hatemonger, obsessing over my lack of alibi: “Why doesn’t Lance Nicholas Dunne have an alibi until noon? Where was he that morning?” she drawled in her Texas sheriff’s accent


    32. When I wasn’t lost in random musings, I was obsessing about how much time was left, dying for the ordeal to be over


    33. Another study, out of Yale, looked at the part of the brain known as the default mode network (DMN), which is active when we’re lost in thought—ruminating about the past, projecting into the future, obsessing about ourselves


    34. There is no point in obsessing over things you cannot control, but there is great value in being as prepared as you possibly can be


    35. Obsessing about His Trading


    36. We spent our most valuable possessions, time and energy, obsessing about the price action, which we have zero control over


    37. Forgive yourself if you are not at peace, namely, if you find yourself obsessing about the past or worat peace, namely, if you find yourself obsessing about the past or worrying about the future


    38. Others strive to look as good as possible by wearing the best clothes, obsessing about their bodies, and undergoing cosmetic surgery


    39. I spent the flight obsessing about Pierce, his apartment, Isabella Calais, their apartment, his studies in biology and modern philosophy, Noam Chomsky


    40. Here I’d been obsessing about James and my love life and my supercontrolling mother and I hadn’t even asked how the trial was going

    41. Since market moves can be irrational, one needs to focus on limiting one’s risk on every trade, not obsessing over why the stock price is going up or down


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    Synonyms for "obsess"

    ghost haunt obsess

    "obsess" definitions

    haunt like a ghost; pursue


    be preoccupied with something