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.
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.
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).
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".
Social mobility and its 30-year decline is a current consuming preoccupation among politicians and journalists alike.
Betty, who misses her parents acutely, wants nothing more than to have children; Edward's consuming preoccupation is a fear of abandonment.
Only 9 items out of 15 determine the structure of the Polish version of the ORTO-15 test (m = 2.09; SD = 0.51); in the Polish version scores under the cut-off of 24 points indicate a strong preoccupation with consuming healthy food [ 11], while in the original measure the cut-off score is 40 points [ 12].
Rather, they maintain, he failed because his actions, setting aside issues of "personal morality," created an "enormous, consuming public preoccupation".
Self-actualization is the all-consuming preoccupation of "Women Who Work".
I had entered in part because I had a bit of a preoccupation with Plath.
