"It is about the destruction of a family, a destructive obsession and somebody who is digging his grave and knowing it and cannot do otherwise."

Greg Hogan is far from the only college student to see the game's role in his life grow from a hobby to a destructive obsession.

She spoke of her mentally destructive obsession, of the visitation she had received, her assault on Robin, and her subsequent flight.

Then how successful had father and son been in dissembling their mutual and mutually destructive obsession?

Katherine Gilday's documentary examines American women's destructive and sometimes lethal obsession with weight.

But this question of chastity; it had become a destructive obsession.

Indeed some Republicans feel that behind the party's destructive obsession with President Clinton was a larger structural problem: a centrally controlled fund-raising and attack strategy that lost touch with the electorate.

When, abruptly, a young couple expecting their first child move in next door, Bethesda constructs a destructive obsession with the expectant father, Mathew Pearson.

School officials say they understand that Miss Loy is aware of the project but has not communicated with them, perhaps nonplused by the creative and destructive obsessions her statue has aroused.

The book portrays destructive obsession and monomania, as well as the assumption of anthropomorphism.