Sentence examples for abiding preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Everyday movement is an abiding preoccupation in postmodern dance.

Indeed, how to deal with China seems to be an abiding preoccupation of Asia's leaders.

But he was talking mainly of the political and constitutional ones that are the abiding preoccupation of Italy's politicians.

Johnson's abiding preoccupation at the time was the idea of procession, the differentiation of spaces through which people pass.

But it is of a piece with Barry's abiding preoccupation – near obsession – throughout the McNulty sequence with rupture and remaking.

Now 76, Mr. Wills is also among America's leading Roman Catholic intellectuals; in recent years faith has become his abiding preoccupation.

Both these abiding preoccupations have receded.

Such anxieties are, of course, one of the abiding preoccupations of the novel.

But inequality and the shrinking middle class have become abiding preoccupations on Main Street and in Washington.

If this morbid exchange is indicative of Shriver's illusionless candor, it also points toward another one of her abiding preoccupations: the counterfactual.

This is one of Grossman's abiding preoccupations — that, after sixty-two years, Israelis still can't take their future, their country's borders, their national identity as givens.