"Your vision--if it was a vision--I put it to you, was just some single aspect of divinity," said Likeman. "We make a mistake in supposing that Heresy has no truth in it. Most heresies are only a disproportionate apprehension of some essential truth. Most heretics are men who have suddenly caught a glimpse through the veil of some particular verity.... They are dazzled by that aspect. All the rest has vanished.... They are obsessed. You are obsessed clearly by this discovery of the militancy of God.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
She was heedless of everything but the subject which evidently obsessed her. The boy, Ruffo, sat quite still listening to her. His attitude was calm. Now and then he sipped his wine, and presently he took from his pocket a cigarette, lighted it carefully, and began to smoke. There was something very boyish and happy-go-lucky in his attitude and manner. Evidently, Artois thought, he was very much at home with this middle-aged woman. Probably her vehemence was to him an every-day affair. She laid one hand on his arm and bent forward.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
As Edna walked along the street she was thinking of Robert. She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited. There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
g., inhaling certain chemicals, is a thing hardly anybody will want to perform before the court. With regard to guilt or innocence, blushing offers no evidence whatever. There is a great troop of people who blush without any
[1] E. Claparde: L'obsession de la rougeur. de Psych. de la Suisse Romande, 1902, I, 307
[2] Henle: ber das Errten. Breslau 1882.
All this, in the light of our present knowledge, is too obvious to us to admit of discussion. But it seems to me nothing less than pathetic to see how in the teeth of the obsession as to continental extension, Darwin fought single-handed for what we now know to be the truth.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
In that moment, Lynette saw a look on her son's face she had never seen before... and she thought of the look he had on his face when he had become obsessed with dinosaurs... obsessed with baseball and obsessed with trains.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Why is everybody so obsessed with the fact that he hasn't said anything?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》