Sentence examples for a certain preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Also common in Mankiewicz's films is a certain preoccupation with death and its effect upon the living.

He believes that global warming is going to destroy the world in 10 hours, that he's the only one who can stop it and that the fate of the planet hinges on whether he can partake in a certain preoccupation of most adolescents and adults (hint: text messaging is not the answer).

Out of all this multifariousness and Pop-Surrealist wackiness, however, there does emerge a certain thematic preoccupation, which you might describe as the gap between the mundane and the transcendental.

There have long been certain preoccupations in my work - red, a certain implied and very overt sexuality - and this is part of that language".

Are you conscious of returning to certain preoccupations over time?

He has certain preoccupations he comes back to.

Although there is no unifying theme, certain preoccupations do emerge over its course.

This means that certain preoccupations of plant disease modellers are similar to those of modellers of diseases in human, livestock and wild animal populations.

Mr. Bellow, who has spent a fair share of his literary life writing about a certain type of American Jewish man's preoccupation with ambition, women, ideas and death, is still preoccupied with all of the above, and still writing about them daily, working on what he says are a number of unspecified projects.

Over the past few years this influence has bled into his preoccupations with gender identity and a certain otherworldly wildness, perhaps cultivated in the Tennessee hills, where he lives.

The Renaissance preoccupation with the natural world had constituted a certain "realistic" bias.