Search Details

Word: obsessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

But walk over to the nonfiction shelf of the bookstore, and you have gone from feast to famine. When it comes to writing about the history, anthropology or art history of their civilization, Indians are, by and large, appallingly unproductive. The best book on the history of Delhi was written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magic of Facts | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

To Nair, "energy and obsession" are everything. "I've always worked independently," she says. "Vanity Fair has a Hollywood budget, but it's completely an independent filmmaker's film." These days, she's regularly courted by Hollywood, but the turbulence of her career has taught Nair that her flavor-of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force of Nature | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Most importantly, the campaign's obsession with Beijing's control kept candidates from discussing how the territory should deal with the pressing questions facing Hong Kong.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Has a Passion for Politics | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Yet despite our relentless obsession with victory, despite the well-funded gold-medal strategies of sporting giants like the U.S. and China, despite the lure of multimillion-dollar advertising contracts for the most winsome of gold medalists, the Games were as much about those who finished dead last in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beaten, But Not Defeated | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

The March 2004 terrorist summit in the lawless province of Waziristan, described to TIME by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last week and expounded on by U.S. officials, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries. "The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is This Man Plotting? | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

Previous | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | Next