Sentence examples similar to a distinct preoccupation from inspiring English sources
He has obvious influences and distinct preoccupations (among them, abused children) that tend to get lost among his flamboyant visuals.
The acute consciousness of a changed world after the Revolution and hence of difference between historical periods led novelists to a new interest in re-creating the specificity of the past or, more accurately, reconstituting it in the light of their own present preoccupations, with a distinct preference for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
This is not a reductive summary — each novel is a distinct treasure — but an effort to highlight a preoccupation: Gaiman is especially accomplished in navigating the cruel, uncertain dreamscape of childhood.
Hypochondriasis has been conceptualized as both a distinct category that is characterized by a disabling illness preoccupation and as a continuum of health concerns.
Just as in his previous movies The Pornographer and Tiresias, there is a preoccupation with sex, violence and cruelty-porn, and a distinct, beady-eyed enthusiasm for seeing women brutalised.
A distinct resistance to potential.
A distinct possibility, no doubt.
Each has a distinct personality.
He has a distinct audience.
