Sentence examples for In the preoccupation from inspiring English sources

In the preoccupation stage, addicts plan the day, even the week, around their hunt for sex, making sure they have enough time and money to go to bars and clubs.

What's lost in the preoccupation with rival savings and investment rates is a clear view of the U.S. economy.

It is reflected in the preoccupation with counting the poor — do they number 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million?" Orshansky's timing was propitious.

Neither is the church completely alone in the preoccupation with same-sex marriage, which has fed passionate and unresolved political debates in France and Britain.

It echoes, first, in the preoccupation with landscape evident in the 1928 essay Adorno penned for the anniversary of Franz Schubert's death; a similar landscape re-emerges in the enigmatic 70th-birthday tribute he wrote for Pietro Mascagni in 1933.

This interpretation is reflected in the preoccupation of the king-lists with the transitory nature of royal power and in the Sumerian belief that natural phenomena (notably the behaviour of the Euphrates River) are determined by the gods.

With few exceptions, theological arguments were rooted in the preoccupations of other centuries.

There are 56 high school students in the PreOccupations Club this year.

The rise of Islamic State, and attendant atrocities in European cities, has seized centre stage in the preoccupations of the west.

I became interested in the preoccupations of Melbourne housewives, which could have been the genesis of someone like Dame Edna.

With its roots in the preoccupations and technologies of the 1970s, this instrument is well described by Peers as "prehistoric in internet years".