obsession

(eg. ancient, synonym, love )

obsession /əb ˈsɛ ʃən/ ?

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(n) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
(n) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

Thanks to his angelic face, killer bod and Justin Timber like dance moves, Rain, 23, has ridden the crest of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the Asia-wide obsession for that country .
Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus, hopelessly enthralled and self-endangered by her obsession, yet somehow finding in her art the .
The fedora, acquired long before the profiles started and yet, one suspects, in anticipation of them, his whine, his obsession with injured petsDrudge may have seen journalism's .

"This obsession with one's personal life at some point has got to end," he said last month.
on Jun 22, 2010 By: Mark Sanford Source: FOXNews
"I personally feel that there is an unrealistic and maybe an impractical or impracticable obsession with your form of democracy, with your form of human rights, civil liberties," Musharraf said, claiming to speak for developing countries everywhere.
on Nov 29, 2007 By: Pervez Musharraf Source: Guardian Unlimited
In Kuwait, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he hoped Israel's new leadership would "have an obsession with peace...... which is the guarantee of Israel's security," AFP quoted him saying.
on Feb 11, 2009 By: Nicolas Sarkozy Source: BBC News