Following the band into its very private obsessions takes a suspension of disbelief, but it's never dull.

Ever since he was a child, however, cooking has been his private obsession.

The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession.

Against that private obsession all the force Yves could exert had no influence.

I didn't know him well, just well enough to be aware that flying was his private obsession.

He supported himself this way for years, while he worked on his private obsession, which is landscapes.

The pursuit of drawings can still be a private obsession.

Someone who had a private, intense obsession with her.

They had apparently decided it was a private obsession.

But this paragon of public responsibility had a private obsession.