obsession

The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.

Nicki treats the obsession with her pop ambitions as an irrelevant, surface-level irritation.

You write about your obsession with sneakers—why do you think so many young men are into sneakers?

Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment.

Du Pont would become fully immersed in one field—like birds—before moving on to his next obsession.

He started a guerilla campaign against the obsession with the aid of the brandy bottle.

It signified that he had definitely given up pretending that he had the power of shaking off the obsession.

"Look here, old man, this superstitious nonsense is becoming an obsession to you," it said one fine April morning.

Talpers played heavily on the lynching, because he knew the fear of the mob had become an obsession with McFann.

It's a kind of obsession, and it often means life or death, whether the mascot can stand the strain of the situation.