7 sentences with 'obsessed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word obsessed and other words derived from it.
• « Then, obsessed with lowering costs, he remembered an invention from a hundred years earlier: a machine created by someone named Whitney, which allowed the manufacture - by anyone - of interchangeable rifle parts. »
• « The world's earliest surviving literary work, the Mesopotamian story known as The Epic of Gilgamesh, was obsessed with the theme of human mortality. »
• « The overall picture of Roman culture is of a society that, in its own way, was as fanatical and obsessed with war as was Sparta during the heyday of its barrack society. »
• « While Europeans at the time were obsessed with the vast mineral wealth to be found in the Americas, in historical retrospect it is clear that far more important than precious metals were the living things that were traded between the western and eastern hemispheres of the planet from 1492 onwards. »
• « Hitler was obsessed with the idea that the German race was on the verge of extinction, tricked into accepting un-German concepts like democracy or communism and foolishly mixing with lesser races. Behind all this were, he believed, the Jews. »
• « However, Nazism was not just a philosophy of government. Hitler was obsessed with winning over "ordinary Germans" to the party's point of view, and to this end the state bombarded the population with propaganda and tried to alleviate the dismal economic situation of the early 1930s. »
• « Racist, anti-Semitic and obsessed with a notion of French identity embedded in the culture of the Vichy Regime (i.e. the French fascist puppet state under Nazi occupation), France's Front National party remains a powerful force in French politics to this day. »