Sentence examples for clear preoccupation from inspiring English sources

Their clear preoccupation seemed to have been to get Wes, who they might plausibly have assumed was under federal surveillance, away from Temple Square as quickly as possible, but they sat with us for an hour and a half.

But whatever coalition is ultimately patched together, one thing is already clear: Israelis' preoccupations have shifted and, perhaps in an unconscious echo of Barack Obama's declared priorities for America, they want their leaders to focus on "nation-building at home".

But once again, it was clear that American preoccupations in the war are not quite the same as those of their allies.

But one should also ask: isn't this preoccupation with clear-cut definitions and delimitations, after all, a sterile academic exercise?

It is more like reading a collection of poems or stories, the deep preoccupations becoming clear as you proceed.

Crowe certainly gives a clear picture of the preoccupations of rural women in the distant past but it is also a calculatedly restricted one.

For Abramson, who studied history at Harvard, the interplay of politics past and present is a longstanding preoccupation, as is clear from her review of Jon Meacham's "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power".

"The parallels with my own brother were clear, and it became a preoccupation of mine: the idea of my brother somehow existing out of time or place, and the notion of time travel.

Soon I'm pulling into my driveway, but that glimpse of freshly cut lawns and orderly flower beds is all I need to clear my head of office preoccupations.

Knowing my preoccupation with clutter-clearing, a friend emailed me a few days ago: "I am starting the great purge of our belongings in preparation for moving.

But for a writer so clearly obsessed with telling his own story, he has generally steered clear of the pitfalls of self-preoccupation.