Sentence examples for desperate preoccupation from inspiring English sources

He -- he had some kind [of] desperate preoccupation of that type".

In scenes that verge on slapstick (the young men shed their vestments to disguise themselves as cattle ranchers), we are treated to some of Castellanos Moya's signature preoccupations: Clemen is always desperate to relieve himself, or for a smoke or sex.

At Springer's headquarters in Berlin, there has been no desperate talk of how to survive the recession and the digital revolution, the daily preoccupation of many U.S. publishers.

The preoccupation with integration is increasingly being skewed at a policy level by the government's desperate desire to develop a strategy to deal with terrorism.

And yet, even in 1982, when "Late Night with David Letterman" premièred, he presaged something else, an obsession with what was authentic, the kind of preoccupation that would dominate the nineties, inflecting figures like David Foster Wallace and Kurt Cobain, famous men who were desperate for rock-star fame and then flamboyantly and publicly hated the stuff once they got it.

Another big, new preoccupation?

Desperate times, desperate measures.

But Matt Matttt was his preoccupation.

I was mining a preoccupation.

"This was a Conservative preoccupation.

Joblessness remains the main preoccupation.