Or had the question to do with his consuming, almost obsessive concern for precision and exactitude in building construction?

Its most conspicuous attribute has been an obsessive concern with judges and the judiciary.

How would he know about the renovated barn in the orchard and Qwilleran's obsessive concern for his pets?

The family's obsessive concern with caterers, guest lists and menus might prove to be offensive to some members of the audience.

It is driven by a very effective partisan political campaign, and the fact that there's been an obsessive concern in the media about it.

"It's an obsessive concern with health, and frequently it's unproductive."

I also knew from experience how the highest officials, while publicly scorning the press, parsed its daily offerings with obsessive concern.

And there is a long wall full of mirrors: one of Borges's obsessive concerns.

It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President's bid for re-election might just possibly fail.

"The Republican Party lost this country with an almost obsessive concern with a balanced budget," he said during the heat of the 1985 budget debate.