6 sentences with 'obsession'

Example sentences and phrases with the word obsession and other words derived from it.

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« But for Marina, the desire to see her student succeed almost became an obsession. »
« Louis XIV devoted himself to glorifying French achievements in art, scholarship and his personal obsession: war. »
« The war had also weakened Sparta's cultural xenophobia and its obsession with austerity, for control of diplomatic alliances was as important as military strength. »
« In short, the Greek obsession with maintaining not only a strict sexual hierarchy, but an attempt to socially separate men and women that reached its zenith in classical Athens, was greatly loosened in the Hellenistic era. »
« In addition to writing amusing novels that addressed everything from Prussia's obsession with militarism to the idiotic bigotry of the Spanish Inquisition, Voltaire was well known for speaking out publicly against injustice. »
« Bacon took the radical step of breaking with the Renaissance obsession with ancient scholarship by arguing that ancient knowledge of the natural world was almost useless and that scholars of the present should instead reconstruct their knowledge of the world based on empirical observation. »

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