Phobias, fears which obsess the mind, anxiety neuroses, suspicions, hallucinations, delusions, nervousness, all expressions of what we may sum up technically as the imaginative state of mind, occur and occur frequently, associated with other symptoms of posterior pituitary overactivity.

And when he was not thus burying himself in the past, he was a prey to the terrors that had obsessed his childhoodthe fear of death and of hell.

This thought had been obsessing Hilda all the afternoon and evening.

A new ideal, which he proudly called "progress," obsessed him, the ideal of quantity and not quality.

Sex and sex differences have always more or less obsessed the imagination of mankind.

And the difficulty of creating a better European opinion and temper is due largely to just this idea that obsesses the Militarist, that unless they misrepresent facts in a sensational direction the nations will be too apathetic to arm; that education will abolish funk, and that presumably funk is a necessary element in self-defence.

He was like a child who is playing at being a burglar, his face had exactly that absorption, that obsessing pre-occupation.

You see that war will soon obsess rich and poor, alien and neutral and belligerent, pacifist and militarist.

It will obsess ostensible politics.

He was like a child who is playing at being a burglar, his face had exactly that absorption, that obsessing pre-occupation.

You see that war will soon obsess rich and poor, alien and neutral and belligerent, pacifist and militarist.

The crowds of them, the airy spread of sepals, the pale purity of the petal spurs, the quivering swing of bloom, obsesses the sense.

Art with its seductions is to obsess the soul with foreign thoughts!

This conception of Salome, so haunting to artists and poets, had obsessed Des Esseintes for years.

The image of the Empress obsessed his childish thoughts.