Sentence examples for a consuming preoccupation from inspiring English sources

With time running short, a planning process that began early this year with small meetings that even participants did not take entirely seriously has grown into a consuming preoccupation.

To walk the streets of Manhattan is to find evidence that pursuit of wealth is a consuming preoccupation I marvel, though, at the indignation with which the city's wealthiest greet skeptical questions about actions the past few years.

But President Trump no doubt knows far more about it than the rest of us, and what he knows — or what he fears — appears to be a consuming preoccupation.

In a season when diners have been ordering hamburger platters instead of T-bones, the stone-cold economy is a consuming preoccupation for most of the city's 26,000 dining establishments.

Social mobility and its 30-year decline is a current consuming preoccupation among politicians and journalists alike.

Dr. Stephen Wolfram is politely appreciative of the fact that he was so favored, but beyond that he tends to regard the news of the windfall as an intrusion on his consuming preoccupation: trying to figure out how the universe works.

Betty, who misses her parents acutely, wants nothing more than to have children; Edward's consuming preoccupation is a fear of abandonment.

At this time, he married Valerie Wainright, a wealthy Houston woman from the Bush social circle, but the marriage could not withstand his consuming preoccupation with politics.(He married his second wife, Darby, in 1986).

But what's really annoyed some people about the "jewellery tax" attack is that they believe it based on a patronising stereotype: gold and other jewellery may have a special significance in some aspects of family culture but do Tories think hoarding heirlooms is an all-consuming preoccupation?

Such was Fischer's all-consuming preoccupation with chess that his mother took him to see two psychiatrists, both of whom told her not to worry.

Anyone looking for insight into the genesis of Orman's obsession with money, her deeply personal, all-consuming preoccupation with it, need look no farther than the first chapter of "The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom".