Sentence examples for origin-obsessives from high-quality English sources.

• In the theories of origin put forward by fans, critics, and other origin-obsessives, the idea of Superman has been accounted the offspring or recapitulation, in no particular order, of Friedrich Nietzsche; of Philip Wylie (in his novel “Gladiator”); of the strengths, frailties, and neuroses of his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, of Cleveland, Ohio; of the aching wishfulness of the Great Depression; of the (Jewish) immigrant experience; of the mastermind stratagems of popular texts in their sinister quest for reader domination; of repressed Oedipal fantasies and homoerotic wishes; of fascism; of capitalism; of the production modes of mass culture (and not in a good way); of celebrated strongmen and proponents of physical culture like Eugen Sandow; and of a host of literary not-quite-Superman precursors, chief among them Doc Savage.

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  EU heads of government look with disbelief at Boris Johnson’s announcement that he will break international law to appease the Brexit obsessives in his party.

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  Back in 2014, audiophile brand Naim, usually only known to hi-fi obsessives, decided that it wanted to go a little more mainstream, so it created the Mu-so.

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  Gaming obsessives may want to consider paying a little more.

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  Time Out's music obsessives have filtered through some of pop's finest floor-fillers and chart toppers to ever have graced the airwaves and selected the cream of the crop.

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  Spec obsessives will note that the Falster 2 runs on the old Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor, since usurped by the faster, more efficient Wear 3100, so you won't get the best performance or battery life on offer.

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  In a trial that attracted podcasters, screenwriters and true-crime obsessives, some observers said the media attention trivialised the proceedings.

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  Usually they do, with only nerds and obsessives remembering most of the flaps that grip Westminster.

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  Next week the BirthStrike movement – founded by women who, by announcing their decision not to have children, seek to focus our minds on the horror of environmental collapse – will dissolve itself, because its cause has been hijacked so virulently and persistently by population obsessives.

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  Companies like Maelove, a startup founded by MIT grads (skin-care obsessives, brain and cancer researchers, and chemical engineers), uses many of the same ingredients and even cosmetics labs as high-end brands but sell their products for a fraction of the cost.

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  The special features make it a dream come true for organization obsessives.

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  Yet unlike tasting-menu restaurants like Blanca and Atera, which cater to a relatively rarefied clientele of food obsessives, Del Posto is engineered for a more all-encompassing embrace.

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  The vast majority of people aren’t obsessives, arguing at the extremes of the debate.

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  Hailed by health obsessives as the superfood to conquer viruses, prevent ageing and even ward off cancer, spirulina may be able to play another, much more significant role as a way to combat malnutrition in developing countries.

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  She speaks to long standing recipe obsessives food writer Felicity Cloake and 'obsessional' Youtube cook Alex.

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  Holmes obsessives brook no doubt about the corporeality of their hero.

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  If gold obsessives are gold bugs, then your friend is a cash bug.

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  Nobody is more obsessed with esoteric musical details than Murphy is, even in a subculture populated by obsessives.

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  Time Out's music obsessives have filtered through pop's finest floor-fillers and chart-toppers and selected the absolute cream of the crop.

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  You can see why his interest was piqued – stories had just reached the press of a shabby Covent Garden wine bar playing host to a crowd of art students, ex-punks and Bowie obsessives, caked in makeup and dressed as Elizabethans, Hollywood vamps, pirates, priests and all points inbetween.