Word: obsessive
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What’s scarier than sects that worship space aliens and obsess over cloning humans? Perhaps it’s that a well-known science journalist took them seriously and blew the wild claims of a minor cult into the pages of the nation’s best newspapers...
...place to hang out with good music and food. He represents his state pride and he is definitely showing what interests him. He sticks with things he likes. He put effort into decorating and organizing enough so that it’s comfortable but he doesn’t obsess about keeping it clean...
After the birth of our kids, my wife and I proceeded to obsess about the things most parents obsess about--schools, our wills, life insurance. Then I realized with a jolt: my kids will reach my present age of 65 in 2052. That's a real date, not an unimaginable one! My kids' lives will depend on the state of the world in 2052, not just on our decisions about life insurance and schools...
...shoes is about the extent of my X-Treme sports life). However, the occasional speed rush is just what the doctor ordered when I begin to lose sight of my priorities. It is way too easy in these gray days (fellow sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder will understand) to obsess about minutiae that really doesn’t deserve that much attention. Expos essays and problem sets have their place—don’t get me wrong—but I know far too many people who have unnecessarily lost sleep worrying about their Rome of Augustus quiz...
...meal that is satisfying and healthy. Putting steaming bowls on a table, even a wobbly dorm-room coffee table, does make me a little bit proud. It’s the cooking part itself, however, that I like the most. For so long I have been taught to obsess over food, whether I am eating too much or the wrong kind, and this breeds an obsessive focus on food because it is forbidden in so many forms...