The phrase "adding preoccupation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of introducing or increasing a state of concern or worry about a particular issue.
Example: "The recent events in the news are adding preoccupation to our discussions about community safety."
Alternatives: "increasing concern" or "heightening anxiety".
Jackson added: "My preoccupation was with the slavery commemoration".
Like them, he is interested in light, to which he adds a preoccupation with what he calls "the intersection of nature, science, and human perception".
But more significantly, he adds, a preoccupation with an unconditional renunciation of violence is not integral to his argument, which is to insist that there exists a growing presence, "fostered by historical events, of an alternative" to war, and he explicates and persuasively links his inquiry with his greatest forebear, William James, and his advocacy of "the moral equivalent of war".
In her newest, previously uncollected poems, Voigt returns to favored preoccupations, adding to her natural meditations a deepened exploration of musical themes introduced in earlier poems.
(Smith) IAN COOPER With a series of works that focus on the child star of the "Poltergeist" movies, this young artist adds his distinctive preoccupation with popular culture and the spirit world to the black-on-black, Goth-leaning current in new art.
Rather than cutting jobs, the common Wall Street preoccupation, he is adding staff, including brokers.
Iris Marion Young adds that women's preoccupation with their appearance suppresses the body potential of women: "Developing a sense of our bodies as beautiful objects to be gazed at and decorated requires suppressing a sense of our bodies as strong, active subjects…" (Young, 1979).
The latter's preoccupation with voting reform and constitutional tinkering during a time of fiscal crisis risks adding to that impression.
Their woes are the latest "morbid preoccupation" of subprime investors, says Michael Youngblood, an analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.Other squabbles are adding to the drama.
In Lodgian fashion, adultery quickly becomes their chief preoccupation, as the narrative unfolds in shifting points of view (Ralph dictating into a tape recorder, Helen adding to a diary), with occasional third-person authorial assistance.
