Sentence examples for a strong preoccupation from inspiring English sources

By the time Oe was twenty-six, suicide became a strong preoccupation.

This, he writes, is due to a heritage of Germanic, Nordic and British superstitions and a strong preoccupation with history.

Identity has been a strong preoccupation of philosophy and social science enquiry for hundreds of years, both individual identity and collective or group identity.

The sample features are described in Table  1.> -wrap-foot> *For intentional weight loss, the numbers and % in the table refer to participants responding yes 82.7%% (43 our of 52) of patients presented a strong preoccupation with a healthy food intake based on the cut-off of 24 for the Polish version of the ORTO-15 test.

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].

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Because the effect of lithography is much more painterly than either woodcut or intaglio printing, it is natural that the strong preoccupation with pure colour in contemporary art has created a revival of interest in this medium.

He dismissed the techniques of Impressionism with its strong preoccupation with the effect of light, and used new colours, such as Aniline Yellow, and photographs, as an aid.

It rather might reflect strong preoccupation with the child.

Klos et al. (2012) found self-weighing was related to a strong investment in appearance, preoccupation with body shape, and higher weight among women.

Rutherford was Baptist with a strong faith and expressed a "deep preoccupation with propriety and morality" in her textbooks, criticizing "authors who openly portrayed sexuality or themselves lived in ways Rutherford found immoral".