Obsessing

Categories can and do change purpose with time, and we should not get bogged down in obsessing with a presumed original purpose. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"The Conservatives have hardly helped themselves by" obsessing "- to use David Cameron's phrase - about Europe; making factual errors at last week's PMQs and rushing out hastily written speeches on subjects like the health and safety culture." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Conservatives have hardly helped themselves by "obsessing" - to use David Cameron's phrase - about Europe; making factual errors at last week's PMQs and rushing out hastily written speeches on subjects like the health and safety culture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While I understand the old adage that concentrating on the other woman only gives her undo power, Houston's take on the idea of obsessing over a man's affair was particularly poignant. ❋ Dustin Rowles (2010)

Texts can be saved and reread (otherwise known as obsessing). ❋ Rosie DiManno (2010)

From an early age, I recall obsessing over film-movies, cameras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thankfully I packed the scale or I think I'd be on it all the time obsessing, which is not a good thing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You felt that people were "obsessing" about this issue. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

When the lead propagandist for a new movement writes an opinion piece for the LA Times about a major international story, we here at TT are guilty of "obsessing" about Dawkins if we notice it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You know, where I come from, one blog post doesn't represent "obsessing," in the same way that inviting people to attend and ask Kathy embarrassing questions during the actual question period doesn't represent "disrupting" her precious speech. ❋ CC (2008)

It's the "obsessing" and the "privileging" of race/gender as the touchstones of moral and political legitimacy -- i.e., the utter lack of perspective combined with the determination to subordinate all other categories or modes of analysis to them -- that creates the insoluble problem that the Dems find themselves in. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

So, in the primary, the result of all that "obsessing" and "privileging" about race/gender is that the Dem electorate is being asked to decide whether black-young-male is "better" than white-old-female, by using the race/gender criterion to decide who "deserves" the Dem nomination. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

It was this simple: If you were giving a hundred percent at hockey, you didn't have room left for anything else-such as obsessing over the rumor going around school that Trixie Stone had tried to kill herself. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (2006)

In the pensive sweetness of the semi-tropical night, this fantastic erection in plaster and gilding and coloured ornaments seemed an outrage, a taunt, a purposeful affront; and yet -- the very violence of the contrast, its outrageousness, gave it a kind of obsessing charm. ❋ M. Leone Bracker (1901)

He remembers Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim "obsessing" over the prospect of an involuntary move from the Big East to the Big Ten. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kristen says she thinks it was a planned kidnapping, that her half-sister was "obsessing" about Jaylin and had bought a new car seat for her, all of which did not add up until Thursday. ❋ Unknown (2010)