This is no small, irksome thing, but a near obsession in a community that is among the city's most densely populated but has little open space to enjoy.

The decision was chalked up to the Jets owner Woody Johnson's near obsession with how the Patriots run their franchise.

He was noted for a near obsession with the rules of golf and was instrumental in consolidating those rules into a single globally recognized document.

It has been Mrs. Ostergren's near obsession to answer that question.

The display of emotion has nothing to do with the subplots of his latest Hollywood adventure, however; it's about a near lifelong obsession: Africa.

Mr. Renehan finds a critical key to Burroughs's character in the writer's near obsession with the past, his melancholic nostalgia for a youth he never had.

Recently, he said he thinks this association - of roller coasters with pleasure unsullied by loss - led to his near obsession with the ride.

And that's where it all starts to get a little murky, and the oddities of Connecticut's near obsession with the tax as a political issue start to become apparent.

Rather surprisingly, Ce'Nedra took her husband's near obsession with the Mrin Codex in stride.

Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession.