He obsessively studied the Bible, embarked on a constant round of churchgoing and began cramming for the examinations necessary to join the ministry in the Netherlands.

The first shuttle astronauts obsessively studied the spacecraft and the ways it might fail.

He obsessively studied scores and achieved absolute clarity as a result.

He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of fifteen.

Beyond such social niceties, I had the practical advantage of being able to obsessively study all the cards I received to determine the ones that had features I might want to emulate.

This seductive Italian film uses the image of beautiful strangers secretly and obsessively studying each other through opposite windows to reflect on two related romantic quandaries: the "grass is always greener" and "absence makes the heart grow fonder."

His wife, Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), becomes concerned that Carter is obsessively studying their daughter, Amy; he regards her like a scientist tracking the development of his creation.

Like Mr. Gehry, Mr. Herzog and Mr. de Meuron began by obsessively studying the layout of Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonie.

His name was Picasso; and de Kooning, Pollock and, as this show demonstrates, Arshile Gorky obsessively studied and imitated him as though looking for chinks in his armor.

In the memoir, Dolan writes of obsessively studying military history and Jane's manuals while binging on junk food in the basement of a UC Berkeley library building in the mid-seventies.