Texas is a convenient base for any Christian obsessed with Israel.
He was obsessed with detail and had a slow, meandering style.
I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad.
Raphael Lemkin was, by all accounts, obsessed with genocide long before he invented a name for it.
She was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.
Lessing is obsessed with too high an estimate of the Captivi.
The thought of a future with Joe always around a corner, watching her, obsessed her.
He was obsessed by the idea of the dignity, almost the divinity—of kingship.
The thing so obsessed his mind that he must speak of it, if it be only to his lackey.
Quivering with the passion that obsessed him, he stepped close up to her.
mid-15c., "tormented, obsessed," past participle adjective from obsess. Originally especially "possessed" by a devil, etc.
c.1500, "to besiege," from Latin obsessus, past participle of obsidere "watch closely; besiege, occupy; stay, remain, abide" literally "sit opposite to," from ob "against" (see ob-) + sedere "sit" (see sedentary). Of evil spirits, "to haunt," from 1530s. Psychological sense is 20c. Related: Obsessed; obsessing.
