And in a play about obsession, there was more than a little creative obsessing going on.

Obsessing, chewing things over, trying to find an answer.

If any obsessing is going on, it is not visible on the surface.

The kid didn't deserve it, and Burton knew his own obsessing over Veronique was not good.

Never mind all our obsessing over glutes and gluten, this is a clear look at where we're all headed.

The senior-year obsessing had the quality of timeless ritual as eight top students at Great Neck South High School gathered to discuss their college application plans one morning in September.

Encountering bemused apathy from Pete's superiors in the LAPD, Michael turns to Cole (who orders his partner to cease his obsessing, see a shrink or face suspension).

I interrupted my obsessing over the Bill Miller conundrum to address a practical problem: Diane was still missing, and Thursday was the day she was supposed to be back in her office seeing patients.

In "Fatal Attraction," Glenn Close did her obsessing from a loft down here, and Martin Scorsese was recently spotted directing Nicolas Cage in "Bringing Out the Dead.")

For the engineers of Manhattan's premier galas, the customary obsessing over timing, menus, guest lists and décor has yielded to the more sober issue of whether many scheduled benefits can, or should, take place at all.

CHAPTER VII Spirits and Suicide A GREAT NUMBER of unaccountable suicides are due to the obsessing or possessing influence of earthbound spirits.

But for nearly a week, the city has been obsessed by them.

He was past all these things, if ever they had obsessed him.

Then the idea obsessed me and I could think of nothing else.

It was political power that obsessed her from the beginning.

In later years, it was the here and now that obsessed them.

Or, maybe, I would find some other animal to be obsessed about.

The "he" of course was the President who obsessed them all.

The murder case had obsessed me for over a year, and that was enough.

I now I'm making a fool of myself, but the thing has obsessed me.

If I asked him about the obsession itself, he obsessed.

Then my camera broke and I obsessed about it for several hours.

WE really need to stop obsessing about the coach around here.

I did not want them to go to earth life and obsess some one.

Focus is hardly the word for it - I obsessed.

That which was impending obsessed him, he could not get free.

You obsess that there must be something wrong with me.

At no point in the book when he's home is he obsessing about the crime.

But they also agree on this: There is not much use in being obsessed about it.

Such questions obsessed her because she had no answer for the one that really mattered.

"I've always been obsessed by looking at things back to front, inside out, and seeing how that changes them," she says.

How little one has to think, to consider, to obsess.

"I'll find the one thing not going right and obsess over it."

She would come in here and spend the entire time talking about him, obsessing.

Long into his exile, what obsessed him was the notion of home.

But you pushed me away, saying I was obsessing over someone's death.